The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-25

AT. PAUL society is having re-
~ spite before the regular season
vi begins, a time of preparation
largely given over to the Win
ter wardrobe. For be it known that we
have now, or are beginning to have,
we'll defined social season, a thing we
have been growing into for several
years. This season begins about the
first Of November, sometimes little
earlier, and lasts until the first day OF
Lent. The gayest time is, of course,
during the holidays when the girls
and young men come home from school,
and as this year a much larger num-
Der have gene than ever before, the
holidays will be one long drawn out
good time.
A we'll known st. Paul woman had
a joke played on her not long ago by
some of the small boys in her neigh
borhood which she turned very clever
ly upon the perpetrators. One day
when the BOYS had nothing else to do
they decided it would be very amusing
to telephone to some Of the intimate
friends of the lady in question and
invite them to her house to play cards
on a certain evening. So one day her
telephone was rung number of
times by her frineds informing her
they would he delighted to come to
play whist and she was much mysti-
fed. Finally one Of the friends
spoke Of having been invited
over the telephone by the chill
dren. OF course explanations fol-
lowed and the joke was discovered.
A few days afterwards the victim
of the affair was at the house Of the
mother of the boy who was prime
mover and he was brought into the
room to apologize. The lady said to
him that she freely forgave the boys,
but the only thing she would expect
Of them was to pay for the ice cream
and cake consumed by the guests!
This was a bomb, as each boy had a
small allowance and they could see
it's disappearance for months to come
1t will suffice to say that the bin was
never collected, but the fright sus-
tanned by some boys has served to
make a most orderly neighborhood.
Every night lately has seen parties
of boys and girls accompanied by their
mothers leaving for the East to enter
school and college. By the end Of this
week there will be hardly any Of the
younger set left. During the week
Mr.. and Mrs. +. P. Shepard have left
for New Haven with Roger Shepard,
who goes TO Yale, and Mrs. ]. NJ. Han
naford has left with her son julie bound
for the same place. Friday night Mrs.
j. H. Sanders, of White Bear, left for
the East to place her daughter, Miss
Helen Sanders, at school at Pelham
her son, Mr. Howard Sanders, will go
South to spend the winter. Last night
Mrs. Charles L. Green, Of the Aber-
deem, left with her daughter, Miss
Jessie Green, to put her at school at
Dobbs Ferry. The Misses Schultz and
Miss Schumacher leave soon. Miss
Anna McKibbin has also gone East to
school. The Misses Baldwin have gone
to Washington, D. c., to school.
Mr.. Louis Maxfield, who has been
spending his leave at his home in this
city, leaves on Tuesday for Annapolis.
He has been made much of by his
friends here and been greatly enter
tanned. Mrs. Powers gave a dinner
for him Monday night; Miss Pollock,
of the Ashland, gave a dinner Thurs
day night, and last night Miss Esther
McDavitt gave a dinner dance at the
Country club in his honor.
Mrs. Arson McCook Beard left on
Friday for her home in New York.