The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-23

house, where the walls are done IN
gobelin tapestry, the "men in armor"
are ranged at equal distances along the
sides of the hall, with shields and
swords hung on the walls above. In
one Rhinelander home there are two
mailed figures on every stair landlng.
In less pretentfous houses there are
shields in the halls. Crossed upon
such an ornament as this one will find
a brace of pistols or swords, with per-
haps f1intlock musket used in the
Revolution.
With the homes of even the moder-
ately well-to-do lighted by electricity
these days-net to mention a vast ar
ray of fiat houses-there is odd inter-
est in looking back only tW enty-two
years to the time when the first iso-
lated plant for incandescent lights in
this city was installed in a private
house That was in the home of Will
liam H. Vanderbilt, The family live at
Fifty-first street and Fifth avenue, and
the big twin mansion had Just been
finished. The electric light plant,
which would be exceedingly primitive
now, but which then was the acme of
electrical lighting construction, was in
the basement. The steam to run the
dynamos was supplied from a boiler of
built it, and, to make it more slightly,
covered it with wood and Russian iron
tagging and bound it with wood and
brass bands. In wiring the house pro-
vision was made for more than 1000
incandescent lamps, but it was impos-
sible to operate more than 130 of these
at once.
Women Of the Vanderbilt family OBJ
4 Il do 1@xy
the machinery in the basement and re-
fused to live in the house until the
lighting plant had been taken out. Be-
fore that was done, however, the cleo
tricity "played hob" with the cloth-of-
gold room, on the appointments of
which the Vanderbilts prided them
selves. The family invited several
friends to make an inspection Of the
new home. Before the guests arrived
tests of the electric lamps were made.
In all the rooms except the front room
on the second floor the electricity be-
haved itself. There the Vanderbilts
were amazed to see the current travel
ing all around the room on the wall,
producing a beautiful effect on the
cloth gold, but at the same time
! cutting the costly material from a side
bracket down to the wainscoting as
clean as though with a knife. The
damage done to the decorations by this
short circuit cost the contractors a
pretty penny, and even then the Van
derbilts were not satisfied and insisted
| the plant be taken out.
Invent some place to carry money"
said a girl to her friend in the Wal
| dorf- Astoria, land We'll make a for
| tune. There should be genius enough
| in this town for such an emergency,
and the first to put the idea to practi-
| cal use will be blessed as well as prof
tied. I am weary of reading these i'm
practicable suggestions about pocketed
stockings and pretty little fawnskin
rolls that can be tucked into the back
hair Where did you ever see one,
I'd like to know? The pocket in the
stocking is a delusion and a snare.
You can't get at your money in a
crowd, and if you could you wouldn't.
To make a depository of your back
hair is absurd, for many reasons which
the woman with a scant growth will
appreciate. You can't carry your
change in a bag under your corsage,
and you don't dare go on the street
with it in hand bag, because you are