The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-19

The news of the formation of a new
club in New York is pleasant and only
what one would expect. 1t is to be
exceedingly exclusive, and the dues are
to be put up so high that only the best
people or plumbers can join. Among
the innovations to be introduced are
the keeping open of the club all the
time and making the serving of
meals a continuous performance. Now
it is difficult to see why club for mill
siionaires Should be open all the time
any more than any other club. or why
it should be taken for granted that the
possession of large sums of money
should induce such an appetite that
Its members should want to dash into
the club and eat at odd moments. But
1T may be so, and it is probably with
reference. to it's continuous perform
ance and prospect of going on forever,
that the club is to be named the Brook.
The tremendous amount of advice
about saving for and building home
which appears in many magazines,
and notably, in Mr. Bok's innocuous
woman in a New York paper telling
how she and her husband lost their
home on 800 a week. To prospective
buyers of suburban property and those
who consider living in the country as
much more economical than town, this
article makes interesting reading. The
husband of the charming woman who
tells her experiences, received a sal
airy of $4,000 a year. and from that they
paid $1,000 a year rent for city apart
ment, and, considering this too much,
finally decided to buy a house in the
suburbs on the installment plan. After
it was purchased, the story tells how
1t was lost steadily on their income of
$4,000 year. until they were glad to
return to their town apartment. All
the young couples who wax enthusiast
tic over the pictures of dear little
homes in Bok's Journal would better
read this description of how easily a
house can be lost. even on a large in
come.
The Irish railways have a most
unique scheme to raise money for a
railway benevolent institution recently
established. From railway employees it
is planned to collect as many thrilling
stories as possible, these to be made
into book and the collection sold for
the benefit of the institution. This is a
hint for a similar undertaking over
here, only it would be we'll to vary the
proceedings and interview the passen-
gers and record their experiences.
Nothing more thrilling than a volume
of this kind can be imagined. There
would be wonderful escapes from
death, and in a parallel column could
be the company's escapes from large
verdictS. Then accounts of remarkable
accidents, lost arms, legs and eyes, and
the countless other exciting happenings
common to railway travelling in this
country. One volume would hardly
cover it and there would be a good
chance for serial stories.
Things in the matrimonial line are
becoming SO slow in Chicago that the
papers are filled with advice to maid
ems on how to win the affections of
young men. One excellent suggestion
is for the girl who would be wed never
to appear to know more than the man
to whom she is talking. The advisee
should make some allowance for the
difficulties of this task. which she does
not seem to take into account. Don't
have moods; don't nag; be self-reliant,
but don't let the prospective young
man think that you can get along
without him. The candidates should
also be advised not to be astonished
when the man, who has sworn in sew
eraI languages before marriage that all
he desires is to spend every moment
of his life at her side, after marriage
spends every evening at the club or in
haunts where men do congregate.
A strange race Of men has been dis
covered in the Philippines, who live in
the. tops of trees. They are evidently
anticipating the automobile craze.
NAB.
July Is. 1903. .4s4