The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-10
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM

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GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Just to think of it! Here we have
feminine independence and demo-
cratic trend in it's concrete form, and
In its Sudsy and soapy form, in the
opening of a steam laundry by the
charming daughters of Capt. John
Mullan, u. S. A, the Misses Emma and
May. The plucky girls have started
their enterprise under the shadow of
the British embassy in Washington.
The young women are courageous
enough to say they have not gone into
business for sentiment, but because
as a candid seller of sandwiches who
charged a dollar slice for bread in q
frontier settlement told Mark Twain 4
they need the money" The Mulian
laundry is a good laundry, and it's con-
ductors promise it shall be conducted
on business principles. and that Gus
toners will be served with neatness
and dispatch, and starch laid on in
the most approved method. The Null
Ian home, distinguished for its near
ness to the British office, faces the
AuStro- Hungarian embassy, which is
something of an honor itself.
Probably the prettiest of the smaller
watch night parties was that given by
Mrs. Rhinelander Stewart Certainly
1t was the most amusing. A feature
of the evening was the new game, res
olutions." invented by the hostess,
which for downright fun without NAL
ice and variety of complications. un-
questionably bears the palm. When it
is called unmalicious the adjective,
however, applies only to the inventors
intent. Chance introduced strands of
spite in the web of shumor-but, of
course. Mrs. Stewart cannot be blamed
for that. AS to the game-white rib
bons in large number are employed,
on each of which is embroidered I'm sill
habit. such as Pride Envy"
Bridge" "Bacchus." "F'lirtation"e and
'Mendacfty." Cards are employed in
the preliminary stages. each player go
ing it alone. with every mans hand
against him. The game with the cards
is u combination of bridge whist. poker
and keno, with several of the milder
pasteboard pastimes. 1t Is screamingly
funny in itself. with changes too nu-
merous to be described in reasonable
space, but that to which it leads-the
award of the ribbons as priests far
more comical.
The possibilities of Resolutions" were
shown admirably in Mrs. Stewards
home in the dying hours of 1904. Be it
said that the word on each ribbon is
that Of a habit or trait the recipient of
the snowy slip is expected to abjure
1T was in the chance distribution of the
prizes. in obedience to the fall of the
cards, that the real humor cropped out
young matron noted for her horror
OF gambling, even in society. and whose
one weakness is known to be a fond
ness for filtration, received a ribbon
that obligated her to forswear the fash
ionable medium of monetary exchange.
Her dearest chum, notoriously so de-
voted to her husband that all other
men are to her but shadows, yet a bit
or fibDer at times, was asked to
swear off" the flirting habit. A club
man whose word would be accepted
without question by all who know him,
but whose appreciation Of the flowing
bowl when the flow is full is a stand
ing joke, was admonished to be truth
full in 1905. The "Bacehus' ribbon went
TO temperance enthusiast, the Envy"
emblem to woman who has no need
to be enVious Of any one in her circle.
so rich and beautiful and altogether
adorable Is she And there were kim
dred miX-upS.
The George Goulds have borrowed
from England through Dixie q good old
custom-the burning of the Yule log.
At this moment, in the biggest fire.
place in, Georgian court. is blazing
merrily giant of the forest almost
twelve feet long and two in thickness.
1t was chosen for its greenness, and
| consequently is likely to burn until
Twelfth Night or beyond. In accord
with the custom. while it keeps aflame
| no single person on the estate can be
required to do any manner of work.
Routine service must be given, of
course, but 1t is performed by volun-
teerS from the ranks of the household
Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Gould has issued
an order to a servant since the log was
rolled into place on Christmas eve The
maids and grooms who in the goodness
of their hearts. wait on the family in
this halcyon time know what is wanted
and do it without request Mr.. Gould
two days after Christmas waited for
his faVorite saddle horse until he no.
ticed none of the volunteer grooms was
about. Then he walked calmly to the
stable and saddled the nag himself 1t
is delightful period of independence
for the servants. and they have shown
their appreciation by taking turns in
leaving nothing undone save in that
! lone instance
! Before the war the great time on the
plantation was the fetching of the
| Yule log. 1T was chosen about the first
! of the month and felled with agreat
ceremony. Then the slaves dragged it
| to swamp, where they buried it in
/ water for more than three weeks. On
/ the day before Christmas the log was
dragged to the big house." with much
| shouting and singing. and cheer arose
when it settled into position at the
back of the fireplace. Being waterlog-
ged, it burned so slowly that as a rule
| it lasted a fortnight or more. y Until
1 the last shred of bark was consumed
every slave on the plantation was a
free man. Naturally. the negroes saw
TO 1t that the log was as little inf1am-
mable as their ingenuity could devise.
| The greener the tougher. the wetter
| the better, from their viewpoint
Mrs. Clarence Mackay, being out Of
| mourning, is luxuriating in a new
wardrobe that will dazzle even blase
Manhattan before the season is half
over. She appeared In the first of her
| new frocks in the Metropolitan, and
| there are dozens of others awaiting the
| evenings for which they were created.
Mrs. Mackay is partial to white
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