St. Paul daily globe. [volume], March 04, 1888, Page 12, Image 12

About St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896

Image provided by: Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN

                
fa
MARTYRED EMMET.
tTrje Brave, Death-Defying Pa
triot Warrior, Hero and
Martyr of Erin.
When My Country Takes Her
Place Among the Nations
of the Earth,
frhen, and Not Till Then, Let
My Epitaph Be Written,"
His Dying Words.
Emmet's Rebuke to Dublin
Castle Justice in the
Hour of His Death.
Poor Bobert Emmet! How this glori
r.us Sabbath, the anniversary of his
birth, recalls endearing memories of the
young Irish patriot and martyr, whose
name has ever been enshrined in the
hearts of all true sons and daughters of
the Emerald isle. Though three score
years have been enrolled on the wheel
of time since his exit from this world,
his sublime life and heroic death are
vet fresh and green in treasured mem
ory, and will pass from generation to
generation until days, hours and mm
utes emigrate gently into eternity.
Hi- was a career of sacrifice for the
land he loved so well, and because of
thai fact, blended with his unswerving
devotion to the principles of liberty and
freedom, his lease of life was foreclosed
by a monstrosity enrobed in the habili
ment of government. Truly, the century
in which we live dawned with oppres
sion and murder in Ireland, but its de
clining age bespeaks the approach of
that era when the epitaph ot Kobert
Emmet shall be written. And let no
amateur attempt to do his memory
justice. Let his epitaph be written in
LETTERS OF GOLD
by a master genius worthy of the dis
tinction. For in all the pages of Irish
history, blazoned as they are with count
less deeds of heroism and numberless
names, there are none more entitled to
recognition than his.
"The personal reputation of young
Emmet," wrote the late Thomas Darcy
McGee in his history of Ireland, "the
least known to his countrymen of all
the United Irish leaders, except by the
crowning act of his death, is safe be
yond the reach of columny, party zeal
or time's changes, lt is embalmed in the
verse of Moore and Southey, and the
precious prose of Washington Irving.
Men of genius in England and America
have done honor to his memory; in the
annals of his own country his name de
serves to stand with those youthful
chiefs, equally renowned and equally
ready to seal their patriotism with their
blood— Sir Cahir O'Doherty and Hugh
Roe O'Donnell." And what was the
crowning act of Emmet's death? It was
that matchless and wonderful death
speech which so strikingly illustrated
the character of the man. Note, gentle
reader, the sublime passages, burning
with poetic fire and emphasized with
patriotic sincerity. *
emmet's famous speech,
Were 1 to suffer only death, after being
indued guilty, 1 should bow in silence
to the fate that awaits me; but
the sentence of the law which
delivers over my body to the
executioner consigns my charac
ter to obloquy. The man dies, but his
memory lives. That mine may not
forfeit all claim to the respect of my
country, I seize this opportunity to vin
dicate' myself against some of the
charges alleged against me.
I am charged with being an emissary
of France, It is false; 1 am no emis
sary. 1 did not wish to deliver my
country to a foreign power.
Connection with France was
indeed intended, but only as far as mu
tual interests would sanction or require.
The preliminary to this assistance was
a guarantee to Ireland similar to that
which Franklin obtained fur America.
Were the French to come as invaders or
enemies, uninvited by the wishes of the
people, 1 would meet them with all the
destructive fury of war. I would ani
mate my countrymen to immolate them
in their' boats before they had contami
nated the soil of my country. If they
had succeeded in landing I would dis
pute every inch of ground, burn every
blade of grass, and the last entrench
ment of liberty would be my grave. My
object and that of the provisional gov
ernment was to effect rj. 7 "'•'• ■■*.*:
. A TOTAL SEPARATION
of Great Britain and Ireland. hen
my spirit will have joined the band of
martyred heroes, who shed their blood
on tlie scaffold and in the field in de
fense of their country, my only hope is
thai my memory and name may serve
to animate those who survive me.
lam charged with ambition. Had I
been ambitious it would have been easy
for me, with my fortune and the con
sideration of my family, to seat myself
among the haughtiest oppressors of my
countrymen. But I have toiled for the
destruction of that government which
upholds its dominion by impiety
against the Most High; which treats a
hopeless people as beasts of the
field, which sets man at his brother's
throat in religion's name, which reigns
amid the cries of the widows and or
phans it has made— [Interrupted by
the court.]
"1 have understood that judges some
times think it their duty to hear with
-patience and speak with humanity to
the victim of the law. You, my lord,
are a judge; I am the supposed culprit.
By a revolution of power we might
change places, though we never could
change characters. If I stand at the
bar of this court and dare not vindicate
my motives, what a farce is your jus
tice? If 1 stand at this bar and dare not
vindicate my character, how dare you
calumniate it? As men, my lords, we
must appear on the great day at one
common -tribunal; and it will then re
main for the Searcher of all hearts to
show a collective universe who was en
gaged in the
VIRTUOUS ACTIONS
or actuated by the purest motives, my
country's oppressors, or— [again in
terrupted].
Why then insult me, or rather why
insult justice in demanding of me why
sentence of death should not be pro
nounced against me? I know, my
lords, that the form prescribes that you
should put the question; the form also
confers the right of answering. This,
no doubt, might be dispensed with, and
so might the whole ceremony of the
trial, since sentence was already pro
nounced at the castle before your jury
was empaneled. Your lordships are
bit! the priests of the oracle, and I sub
mi!: but 1 insist on the whole of the
forms.
1 have been charged with such im
portance in the efforts to emancipate
my country as to be called here "the
life and blood" of the conspiracy. You
do me honor overmuch. There are men
concerned' in this conspiracy who are
not only superior to me. but to your
own conceptions of yourselves, my
lords; men who would not deign to call
you friend— who would not disgrace
themselves by shaKing your blood
stained hands. [Court excited.]
What, my lord, shall you tell me on
my passage to the scaffold, which that
tyranny of which you are the inter
mediary minister has erected for my
death, that I am accountable for all the
blood that has been or will be shed
in this struggle of the oppressed?
(Shall you . tell me this, and
must 1 be so very a slave as not to repel
it? Must I not -^--.-
CAST IT BACK ON YOU,
who, if all the innocent blood shed in
your unhallowed ministry were collected
in one vast reservoir, your lordship
might swim in it. Ido not fear to ap
proach the Omnipotent Judge to answer
for the conduct of my short life, and am
I to stand appalled before a mere rem
nant of mortality here? Let no man,
when lam dead, charge me with dis
honor; let no man attaint my memory
by believing I could engage in auy
cause but my country's liberty and in
dependence, which there is still union
and strength enough in Ireland to; ac
complish. 7 7
[The court here said if the father of
the accused were living he would have
drawn him from such vile conspiracy.]
If the spirit of the illustrious dead
participate in the concerns of those
who were dear to them in this tran
sitory life, dear shade of my ven
erated father look down on your
suffering son, and see if at any
time lie has deviated from the princi
ples of morality and patriotism which
it was your care to instill into his youth
ful mind, and for which he offers up his
life— [again interrupted.] -
My lords, you are impatient for the
sacrifice. The blood which you seek is
not congealed by the artificial terrors
that surround your victim ; it circulates
warm and unruffled through its chan
nels, and in a little time
IT WILL CUV to heaves*. :
Be yet patient. I have but a few
more 'words to say. lam going to my
cold and silent gave; my lamp of life is
nearly extinguished. I have parted
with everything that was dear to me in
this life for my country's cause— with
the idol of my soul, the object of .my
affections. My race is run. The grave
opens to receive me, and I sink into its
bosom. I have but one request to make
at my departure from this world— it is
the charity of its silence. Let no man
write my epitaph, for as no man who
knows my motives dare vindicate
them, let not prejudice or ignorance as
perse them. Let them rest in obscu
rity and in peace; let my memory be
left in oblivion, and my tomb remain
uniuscribed until other times and other
men do justice to mv character. When
my country takes her place among the
nations of the earth then, and not till
then, let my epitaph be written. I have
done.
THE UNITED IRISHMEN.
It is impossible to dismiss the subject
of Emmet's life without paying tribute
to that noble little band of co-workers
in the association of United Irishmen.
They fought bravely for the principles
of independence which they esteemed
so generously, and their conduct merits
that honor in which their memory is
preserved. Wolfe Tone is a name that
shall ever live in Irish history, though
"the fatal final act of his life must stand
forever between him and the people for
whom lie suffered." Lord Edward,
who ranked among the brilliant
men of the period., died of his
wounds, and Father Quigley, William
Michael Byrne and the Sheares
brothers on the gibbet. Russell and
Dowdall, who were among the promi
nent figures of United Irishmen, shared
the fate of Bobert Emmet in 1803.
O'Connor, Allen and others, so histori
ans tell ii*-, went to France, where their
ability soon won for them a high station
in the confidence and respect of the na
tion. The Emmet, MacNevin and Tone
families
WERE RE-UNITED IN AMERICA,
where their talents and accomplish
ments, like those of their countrymen
who followed them, won for them re
spected positions in the social and com
mercial departments of life.
"If ever a body of public men," says
an eminent Irish writer, "deserved the
character of a brotherhood of heroes, so
far as disinterestedness, courage, self
denial, truthfulness and glowing love of
country constituted heroism, these men
deserve that character. The wisdom of
their conduct and the intrinsic merit of
their plans are other questions. As be
tween tlieir political system and that of
Burke. Grattan and O'Connell, there al
ways will be, probably, among their
countrymen, very decided differences of
opinion. That is but natural. But as
to the personal aud political virtues
of the United Irishmen there
can be no differences. The world has
never seen a more sincere or more self
sacrificing generation." 7V ;: '
But among the many names of Irish
patriots who died for liberty and tor
country there are none that receive
greater reverence than that of \ young
Emmet, and though Irishmen have their
faults, be it said to their credit, religious
bigotry is not one of them; for on the
walls of humble cabins in the old land,
and in the more comfortable i homes of
the Irish Catholics in America, the por
traits of Protestant Emmet find a place
with the pictures of the saints.
By all means, Irishmen of St. Paul,
select the grandest genius of your,
talented race to chant the praises
of one whose name shall live for
ever; and "though some traveler
from New Zealand may take his
stand on the broken arch of London
bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's,"
yet there will remain an affection in
finitely as grand as that which prevailed
in this enlightened nineteenth century
for the gifted child of eloquence, the
faithful Irish patriot, and the brilliant
scholar, Kobert Emmet.
Frank McGvrie.
_^»
BURIED IN SNOW.
Two Men Packed For Forty-eight
Hours Under 130 Feet of Snow.
San Francisco Special.
John M. Buncombe, who has just come
down to the city from Alturas, Idaho,
tells the story of a queer happening
there a week or two ago.
"Five men were working at a shaft
located about half-way -up the side of
Silverton hill, a spur of the Alturas
range. The snow lies several feet deep
all over the mountain, and as
the day was clear, . by the
middle of the afternoon the sun
had thawed the snow just enough to
make it sort and inclined to slide. A
Swede walking on a trail above the shaft
missed his footing, and in scrambling to
regain it pushed a little body of snow
out of its balance. This was at the head
of a dry gulch, and the weight and slip
periness of the snow were enough to start
a slide. In a second's time it had grown
to a tremendous size, and, growing big
ger every second, it rushed down the
mountain with a terrible roar. The trees
in its path were mowed down like grass
before a scythe. The Swede who started
the slide fell over in it, his body was
buried in the snow, and had not yet been
found when I came away.
"Two men were working the windlass
at the month of the shaft and two others
were inside. The two at the surface
heard the slide coming and hurried
to get out of its way. They were caught
in the vast mass of rushing snow and
tumbling trees, But by some unexplain
able accident they where tossed to one
side and succeeded in getting out of the
avalanche. They were knocked sense
less, but received no serious injuries.
"Bat the queerest part of the whole
story is about the two men who were in
side the shaft. The slide came right
down over the mouth of the shaft and
packed its 130 feet chock full of snow.
The two men, Martin Smithson and Tom
Callan, were in there, buried under all
that mass of- snow, for two. days and
nights, and when they were dug out
they came to, and are now just as sound
and well as anybody. The snow was
packed into some parts of the shaft so
tight that it was almost as hard as ice,
and it took exceedingly hard work to get
it out. But the snow, no matter how
tightly it is packed, does not exclude the
air, aiid that is the way they happened
to live through. They were caught in
upright positions, too, or they could
hardly have survived. There they stood
for forty-eight hours, .with the snow
packed around them so close that they
could not move a muscle. Though so
near each other that they almost touched,
they could not even speak a word. They,
could just simply stand there and think.
They say they were conscious for some
time after the snow came down, and that
they suffered tortures. They declare
they never longed for anything so much
in all iheir lives as they did for death."
, ****»> ;- '-"v;-"Iy-.;
EPHEMERON.
. "Behold," she said, "a falling star!" '**.. 'r >
I followed where her vision led,
And saw no meteor near nor far: .
So swiftly sank the luster, dead.
: In silvery moonlight stood she there,
. Whiter than silver gleamed her hand,
And gleaming shown her yellow hair, m . -
While dusky shadows filled the laud.
She seemed a slender, flickering shape,
Framed in the blackness of the porch, *
. How should a child of night escape I ■
A foolish moth that loved the torch I
Out of my dusk I came to her
Voices were stilled, anear, afar!
, I stood there lost, her worshiper, .
* What eye beheld that falling star? *V '' . '■■:■
—Annie Fields in Scribner's Magazine.
THE; gA&ffi^fi£tft ; !DA3LY GLOBE: '- SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, isw.— EIGHTEEN PAGES.
DRESS AND CUSTOMS.
Clara Belle Gossips a Little
About the Great Mas
querade Ball,
And, While Philosophizing
Somewhat About Its Ways
and Its Dress,
She Peeps Into the Future
and. Sees the Coming
Spring" Styles.
Ready-Made Garments to Be
a Spring Feature—Some
Contrasts.
New York, Feb. 25.— There was a
funny trio at the Arion masquerade,
consisting of a father, son and a bur
lesque chorus girl, says Clara Belle in
the Cincinnati Enquirer. The old man
and the young man were sweet on the
actress, and she was saccharine on both.
She wore short skirts, no sleeves, little
bodice, and they could have seen her
heart had it been on the surface of her
body. I have pictured them as they
passed me. She had an arm of each ad
mirer, and in front there was no aspect
of preference, but from behind, as you
can see, the son was deftly caressing
the arm of the enslaver, quite unsus-
pejted by his venerable parental rival.
THE SEASON OF GRAND MASK-BALLS
has been inaugurated by the annual
tear under the auspices of the Avion
club. It came oft' at the Metropolitan
opera house, as usual, and was an un
commonly brilliant affair. The club has
recently inaugurated a splendid new
building on Park avenue, and its friends
rallied en masse with a sense of jubila
tion. Many extra features were pro
vided in the way of tableaux, panto
mines and exhibition dancing, but all
these were very dull, save the work of
the regular ballet corps of the opera
house, which is always first-rate, and
except, also, the display of several model
young ladies, all amateurs, as ancient
goddesses. The Venus was a plump
Gretchen in a many-spangled costume
that even the famous goddess would
not have worn on a visit to Greenland,
but its skirts were adequately rent, so
that a few thousand young men found
her walking interesting— "she revealed
herself a goddess by her gait," as, I be
lieve, old Virgil put it.
A note worthy, feature of the costum
ing at the Arion ball was the general ab
sence of any effort to be original. Among
the many hundred ladies present there
were a few score that attempted fancy
costume. Most of them, however, went
in ordinary full dress, tout en regie,
very decollete and expensive, like the
example here illustrated. . And among
those who adopted short dresses, or
milk-maid costumes or witches or In
dian or any other simple or fantastic
dress, it was astonishing and amusing
to note that all but two or three kept, to
the prevailing mode with respect to
tournure. We had, therefore, Jeanne
d'Arcs, French milk-maids, Italian
damigellae, Puritan witches' gypsy for
tune-tellers and modern belles, all upon
the same level not the ball-room floor,
but the rotund level, so to speak— of the
fashionable bustle.
PARIS RULED TIIE GERMAN
ball almost as distinctly as it will the
French ball next week. One English
feature, however, was there in a pretty
woman who represented an idealized
Loudon barmaid, but who refused to fill
her beer glasses with anything short of
champagne.
"Oh, do fill my glass," she said to an
old rounder in the wine room.
I "All right," he said, "and mine, too."
Instead of 20 cents, or double beer
rate, he had to pay £> for a quart of
champagne. "And I couldn't see a
blessed bit of difference until I tasted
it," he complained.
MORE MEN THAN WOMEN
indulged in fantastic apparel, and some
well-known personages made- them
selves conspicuous, not to say ridicu
lous, by their apparel. For instance,
there was Franz ttemmerz, the widely
known bass singer, who paraded as one
of a group of "Fausts," his disguise be
ing to an extent involuntary, as the
committee on which he was placed had
to dress in this way. And again there
was Bambach, an up-town stock broker
—a man of about sixty years,whose face
bears a strong resemblance to Richard
Mansfield's make-up as "Baron Chev
rial." Bambach paraded of his own
sweet will as a kind of undeiinable
Pantaloon, wearing a vest six inches
long, allowing his shirt to make a lim
ited appearance before the beginning of
his trousers, which came to an untimely
end at the knees and exposed a pair of
striped stocking and slippers. lie "cut
up" all the night long.and, to his credit,
be it said, as if it were a real recreation
for him. He confined himself strictly
to the ball room floor, and only visited
the refreshment rooms for a glass of
beer and a high-priced ham sandwich.
WHAT STRIKES ME
chiefly in an inspection of the fashions,
as they are presented in the stores, is
the extreme neatness of the styles of
ready-made clothing. Nicely draped
skirts of woolen material, with a suffi
cient length for the bodice, may be
bought beautifully: jackets, which, a
few years since, could only be had to
order, are now on sale; a complete
walking outfit, neat and ladylike, may
be purchased ready-made, and if in
these days of cheap clothing any
.woman is attired . m worn-out or ugly
and ill-fitting garments it is simply
from mismanagement of her finances.or
from want of taste and knowledge to
guide her in the choice of her costume.
These dresses are in tailor-made styles,
and chiefly of striped or chequered' fab
rics; the plain Amazon cloths, of which
so many fashionable costumes are made,
are more expensive, and are frequently
combined with one of the rough wool
ens in large 7 chequers that are always
stylish when well made, but good mak
ing is a sine qua non where large pat
terns are concerned. A good model
made in this way is composed of a large
chequered woolen in blue and pale
mastic, and Amazon cloth iv the latter
color, used in broad bands pinked out
in scallops at 7 the edge. The skirt of
the .plaid material is plaited, 1 and to
form a panel on the left side ; bands of
the Amazon cloth are placed^ under the
edges of two wide plaits from: the waist
to the edge. The tunic is. draped high
on this side and falls in a coquille, lined
with a wide band of the Amazon cloth;
along the lower edge of the tunic the
cloth appears as a narrow border : only;
the same : arrangement is followed at
the back, but the band widens again
where it follows the back drapery to the
waist on the left side. The front,, edge
and sleeves of the plain corsage are also
ornamented with pinked out bands of
cloth placed under the chequered ma
terial.
WITH THE ADVENT OF SPRING
the dry goods merchants are showing
new designs in silk and woolen dress
goods, trimmings, etc. In the silk de
partment faille Francaise, moire Fran
caise and moire antiques are the pre-,
vailing material for wedding dresses,
evening wear, and so forth, and.
some novel and . rich - effects;
in these goods are being shown.;
Gold and silver designs v* in.
tinsel on a white silk ground are very
handsome, and are being used exten
sively for evening costumes. The tin
sel designs run on sprays or fern leaf,
weeping willow and fancy geometrical'
pattern. Pompadours are shown both
in stripes and figures and in all tints to
be used with any selected material of
one color. Moire Francaise and taille
Francaise are still in large demand, and
are popular goods. Some beautiful silks i
in these lines are on the counters.
Taffeta silks with changeable effects:
and in every conceivable color are ex
tensively worn. A curious effect is
that the goods looked at another way
appear to be a certain color, and looked
at another way are an entirely different
shade. The novelty of these changea
ble silks, it is expected, will make them
very popular. Other silks on much the
same style, but with a slightly different
pattern, are the peau de soie and the
scintillicut glace. The silks are to be
made up almost entirely without trim
ming, their peculiar richness being all
that could be desired. Novelties in
trimmings for silk dresses include pretty
designs in pompadours, etc. One charm
ing piece of goods is a long Cluny
stripe in the .center, with a lot of
little rosebuds and sprays on either side.
This design is in all shades, ln combi
nation goods, a design is shown in three
materials, the dress itself being of one
material and the trimmings in others,
the shade being precisely the same
throughout. Some very pretty effects
in ombre stripes are also shown. Surah
and Tussah silks are still popular, and
a large assortment is to be found in
checks and stripes. The Tussah silk is
not much heavier than Indian silk, but
is much stronger. Woolen goods are
trimmed with elaborate designs worked
in the material in velvet, gold, silver
and Damascus steel, producing
A RICH EFFECT.
A full and handsome line of Benga
lines, challies, dress veilings, silk pon
gees and Henrietta cloth in many taste
ful patterns are exhibited, also . some
pretty and tasteful patterns in soft
goods, suitable for tennis, seaside and
mountain suits. Steel, gold and silver
dress trimmings in elaborate designs
are also shown. The metal work On
some of the dress draperies is remarka
bly artistic.
I have seen some very tasteful dresses
which are being made for the forthcom
ing fancy dress balls. One of these,
which is at once simple and elegant, is
the "Snowball." The short skirt of
white faille is covered with three
plaited flounces of white crape cut into
points at the edge. At each point hangs
a large ball in white floss silk, a similar
one being placed between the points.
The corsage is cut with a round waist,
and has a ceinture in satin, falling in
long ends at the right side. It is cut
open in a V shape, the left, side of the
opening and the plaited vest being set
with large silk balls. Similar balls form
a coronal at the back of the head to at
tach the full white tulle veil, which falls
to the hem of the skirt. White silk
stockings and white satin slippers with'
a ball of floss set in the instep of each
are worn . with this toilet. Another
original costume, also in white, is
that of the white cat. It is in white
plush, the skirt made short and looped *
at one side, the looping being lined with
pale pink plush. At the side a cat's
tail, made of white plush, emerges from,
the folds of the skirt, and is attached to
the hip with a knot of white ribbon.
The low-necked and short-sleeved cor
sage is bordered 8 with I .white fur.
Around the throat is tied j a pale | pink
ribbon with a large bow under the chin.
The coiffure is a round cap in plush,
with a cat's head set at one side. A
very novel dress is that of the serpent
charmer. The short skirt is of pale
green silk, striped with satiu in varied
and vivid hues. Over this is a second
skirt in pink faille, draped in large
scallops. The corsage, the belt and a
short tunic, cut in very deep narrow
points, or rather teeth, are in change
able green silk, brocaded in a fish-scale
pattern. This brocade represents a ser
pent's skin, and is very effective. A
necklace in several rows of small.many
colored beads adorns the throat. A ser
pent in caoutchouc, painted in green
and gold, is twined around the right
arm. The hair falls loose and uncon
finedover the shoulders, the head being
encircled with a gold serpent.
A DANCING PROFESSOR
said to me that there was less aversion
to the exposure of the feminine foot in
London than here. There is a craze for
muscular development over there. The
most fashionable dancing schools are
those kept by women— broken down
gentlewomen, and even one or two titled
ladies. A great deal besides dancing
is taught in these schools. There are
lessons in calisthenics, moderate gym
nastics and what is called deportment.
In the latter women are taught to sit,
stand, walk and bow gracefully. . They
are even instructed in the arts of eat
ing, talking and whatever else is neces
sary to polite existence. These classes
weie originally formed for little girls,
but, adult classes of the same sort are
now regular institutions. They are now
attended by women who fall into or
marry riches, who make hits on the
stage, who want to shine in fast society,
and all such folks. . 7.7
"But speaking of nice women exclu
sively," said the professor, "it must be
the case that thousands of lovely
English girls are as accustomed to short
skirts as they are to waterproofs or rub
bers. They wear short skirts in the
gymnastic classes, at dancing school, at
rowing, shorter yet in bathing. Their
tennis skirts are always shorter than
those worn here, and, in a word, the
whole subject is viewed differently over
there. Our women and . those of Paris
seldom need to free their feet, while
the . average . healthy English girl is
constantly employed in* some way
where long skirts would be in the way.
In their speech there is that
SAME FREEDOM. jO
English women and girls use the word',
•leg' where our ladies say 'limb.' Good !
legs are openly criticised or admired,'!
whether they be men's or women's, by *
the best frequenters of the best theaters.?
English actresses over here have told
me they make a point to walk long '
distances at a brisk pace in order to de- 1 ;
velop their limbs, and a handsome part
of the income of a London dancing
mistress comes from those fashionable 0
folks who send - their daughters, as
much to have their arms and chests de
veloped by calisthenics as to learn to
dance. 7. 7 ■■'■'
This upper development is needed be
cause the evening dress is invariably'
decollete, and is never rendered ridicu
lous there as it is here by fronts of tulle, 1
or lawn. In London a woman must
bare her neck, no matter how scraggy
it happens to be. i Custom is tending the
same way here, and v I have seriously
thought of introducing light gymnastics
for women at my school for this pur
pose. One would think it must surely
pay, for at least two in every six well
to-do girls and wives who come here are
practicing at home with" dumb-bells or
lifting-machines. The reason they give
for resorting to this admirable practice
is always the same. They are about to
'come out' in, full evening dress, and a
lady who never gave her figure a thought
beyond employing a competent • dress
maker to build her gowns the right shape
will suddenly assume a deep interest in
manual athletics when she has studied
herself in her " glass,' minus '■;' her dress. .
with a view to seeing; how § she would'
look if dressed like one of the As tors at
the ' opera. '■-'.-:.-:- ;"•' _V .'■;■ : *7.*7*7 7
.11 '/" of every style arid kind
if BID In the list of ."Wants" you find.
MUST HAVE CORSETS.
Some Singular Facts About
'; Women Whose Waists
Need Support.
Fifteen Million Dollars a Year
Spent For Corsets in
This Country,
Freaks in Waists and Notions
About How to Get to the
Proper Size.
A Large Number of Dress Re
form Substitutes Are Dis
placing the Corset.
} There Is something about the corset
that fascinates both men and women.
To a woman the charm of a corset is in
its utility, and man likes it for the com
pany it keeps. How often does one see
on State street or Wabash avenue a
group of men standing in front of a
milliner's or modiste's window admir
ing the wax-work figure therein, as
pretty as a picture and lacking only the
breath of life to make it the sweetest of
earth's objects. It will , do no good to
stop and inquire if it is the wax figure
which the motley crowd so much ad
mires, or the corset which is so well
displayed upon the plump.well-rounded
image. As like as not it is the contents
of the corset rather than the corset
itself, but the fact remains that the cor
set is one of the leading articles of com
merce and one of the most important
adjuncts of modern civilization. Two
hundred thousand women in Chicago
wear corsets, they buy an average of
two or three a year each. Every day
one sees women carrying their new
corsets home in long, thin boxes. Cor
sets cost all the way from 25 cents to as
many dollars. A majority of women
pay 75 cents or §1, while the best cor
sets in the trade are sold at $2.50 or $3.
The more expensive ones are made to
A CORSET ADVERTISEMENT— "EASY TO
FASTEN."
order. With the women of the United
States spending $15,000,000 a . year for
corsets, no wonder the inventors and
manufacturers have put a bewildering
array of wares in the market. There
are "fairy" corsets, "flexible hip" cor
sets, "bonton," "comfort-hip," "nurs
ing," "abdominal,'? "rose," "glove-fit
ting," '.'zephyr," "oriental," "French,"
"-esthetic, ' "ideal," "duchess,"
"watch spring," "dermathistic," "hy
gienique," "spiral spring,'" "esmer
alda," - "beauty?.' . and . , , , a . . . score
of others, says the Chicago Herald.
A collection of corset advertisements
from ladies' journals and magazines
from all parts ot the world would be
very interesting. It would be a collec
tion of pretty pictures such as these
which the "Herald reproduces. The
claims made for the various wares would
also be worth reading, In behalf of the
corset with watch spring stays it is de
clared thatifyields to every movement
of the body, from the faintest breathing
to the most violent exercise in gym
nastics." : A great many corsets are ad
vertised as being recommended by the
medical fraternity, and others are
claimed to be peculiarly adapted to the
ANOTHER ADVERTISEMENT — "COM
FORTABLE IN STOOPING." "
wants of lawn tennis players, athletic
and romping ladies. Some are said to
be just the thing for fat women, and
others are great beautifiers of their
forms. One brand is said to "beautify
the figure beyond power to describe,"
while in the advertisement of a Paris
manufacturer a little kitten is re
leased from the bag. "Soft, patent
regulators," claims this ingenious
Frenchman, "regulate any desired full
ness and roundness of ideal beauty, so
perfect and natural as to defy detection.
This is impossible by any other corset,
or by the unnatural pads, which are in
stantly detected. Thousands have worn
it for some years with perfect secrecy."
Another Frenchman, obviously a cold
blooded murderer, tells ladies how to
reduce their waists two or three inches.
Of course it is his corset that will do it,
and that without tight lacing, he claims,
and simply by lengthening the bust.
This fiend glibly tells his customers to
send him their waist measure an inch
smaller than usual, adding that the sec-
HUSBANDS WAITING IN A CORSET SHOP.
ond order may an inch or two smaller
still. An Eastern corset dealer,whohas
in his time evidently .written editorials
for a circus, claims that his corset
"makes any thin .- figure \ a .vision
of loveliness, baffling - description . and
defying : exaggeration.'!.! That,. surely,
would he a figure worth going miles .to
see. ; The manufacturer of a corset de
signed especially for stout fingures in
forms his customers that he takes their
waists below the ribs, thereby securing
greater length, by reducing the figure
considerably and* also * supporting it
below.the waist, which is most essential
to those to whom : nature has been more
than kind." There are corsets with shoul
der braces, with straps and with all sorts
of contrivances for securing comfort,
improving forms, straightening up
stooped figures and round shoulders,
Tbere are two radical ideas in the
corset world just now, and both of them
are making headway in Chicago. One
is dress reform- which dispenses with
corsets by adaptation of substitutes,
such as corset waists, jackets and other
devices forholding^he form indressable
shape without discomfort or injury to
health. Some of these dress reform
goods are championed by Mrs. Jenness
Miller, and are becoming quite popular.
In one of these substitutes cords are
used instead of stays, to make the nec
essary stiffness, and to furnish a support
to the bust. Straps over the shoulders
A STATE STREET SCENE.
lend aid in tills. For one of the waists
it is claimed that "while fitting the form
closely it leaves every nerve, vein and
blood-vessel free to act." But even the
dress reformers do not abolish the cor
set, only substituting-' something else
therefor. A corset seems to be a neces
sity to a woman.
"0, 1 couldn't live without a corset,"
exclaimed a comely matron in a corset
shop on Wabash avenue. "1 feel as if I
was falling to pieces without one on."
That is the way it is. And this being
the case, a tribe of corsetmakers is
springing up in town— men and women
who measure their customers' waists,
busts, hips, shoulders, etc., just as a
tailor measures a man for a coat, and
then make them corsets that fit like the
traditional paper on the wall.
"That is the secret of the corset busi
ness," said one of these makers, a
pleasant, intelligent lady. "A corset is
a necessity, but it will do no end of
harm if it doesn't fit. Yon have heard
ladies talk about the agony of 'break
ing in' a new corset, haven't you?
Well, there is no other aeony like it.
Breaking in a pair of ill-fitting shoes is
nothing by comparison. I've seen la
dies in"tears with the pain of a new cor
set. Nine out of ten of them will rush
to their rooms as soon as they get home
and take off the abominable thing. Add
to an ill-fitting corset the tight lacing so
common, and it is no wonder that phy
sicians say women are killing themselves
with their corsets."
Physicians do say this, and a New
York medical man recently spent six
months experimenting witn half a dozen
women and tight lacing. He describes
the results of his experiment in a medi
cal journal, and tells us how much to an
ounce the circulation of the. blood is re
tarded, how much to an inch various
bones, muscles and internal organs are
forced out of place and a lot more ter
rible things.
"Still, women will lace tight," re
sumed this Chicago corseteire, as the
French put it. "There is nothing a
woman will not door endure in order to
improve her appearance, and so I claim
that the best thing that can be done
under the circumstances is to make per
fect fitting corsets. Then, if they
choose to draw themselves to death the
demise will be a less
painful one. Custom
made corsets are in
creasing in popularity
here. There are half ;
dozen makers in town,
and we are all busy.
We charge from S6 to
$12, perhaps $8 being an
average. Our corsets fit
perfectly, and there is
no 'pushing in' to be
done. How could any
one expect to get a fit
ting corset in a store'-
They are all made alike.
A 22 waist has 34 hips
and 34 bust, while the
wearer may have a 2ii
waist, a 29 bust, aud 35
hips, or vice versa. We
don't do it that way.
We not only make the
waist to fit, but every
part of the corset. Why, old style.
one of my customers, whose life has
been made positively miserable by trade
corsets, told me she could go to sleep in
the one I made for her."
"What is the average waist?"
"I think twenty-four is the average.
Here are two extremes. This is one for
Mrs. E., of the Xorth side, a very stout
lady. It is thirty-four waist. Compare
it with this one, ordered by Mrs. F., of
the South side. It is only eighteen
waist. Figures don't express the dif
ference in size, do they?"
No, figures did not seem to express it.
One corset looked big enough for an
elephant, and the other narrow enough
for a kitten.
"Do not ladies think your charges
high?"
"Some of them do, but after they have
experienced the comfort of a perfect
fitting corset they are glad enough to
pay the price. A good
many ladies first learn
:>f the joys of corsets
to-order while visiting
Paris. French ladies
Jo not think of buying
t ors ets ready-made,
breaking them in,' and
xbout the time they
have become fitted to
the form be compelled
to throw them away be
cause of having become
soiled. Paris and Lon
ion are full of corset
eires, and they do good
.york at reasonable
prices, except for
Americans. Mrs. ll— ,
of Michigan avenue,
TIGHT.BUT easy, who had a daughter
married not long ago. paid ?<>s for three
corsets in Paris, one for herself and two
for her two daughters. For those for the
two girls she had to pay 520 each, and for
her own IS more, because she is a
married woman, though the corsets
were all alike. No whalebone is used
in the store corsets nowadays, while we
use nothing but the best whalebone,
shaving it down thin over the hips, and
leaving it stronger at the waist and
above, where support is needed."
"Do you measure ladies over tlieir
street dresses?" '"c^'
"In some cases. In others we have to
be more particular. Come around here
in the afternoon '„ and you will see sev
eral patient husbands waiting the other
side of that screen while their wives are
being measured. And why shouldn't
they be patient? The cost is not great,
compared with the comfort, good health
and good humor to be gained by the
use of a first-class article."
Still ninety-nine women out of a hun
dred buy their corsets in the dry goods
stores, and there appears to be no
diminution of <. the number of good,
motherly souls who live to be "over a
hundred sir, and I've worn a corset all
my life."
An Inspiring Spectacle.
Alta Calfornia.
■••. Senator Joe Brown pleading for a con
tinuance of war taxes on the *> ground of
solicitude for American labor is ;an in
spiring spectacle. Senator Brown works
his coal mines with convicts leased on
contract from the state of Georgia at 25
cents a day.
MINNEAPOLIS REAL ESTATE
The Firms represented below are among the most reliable
Eeal Estate Agents in Minneapolis.
• i
FARM LANDS
WANTED IN EXCHANGE FOR _3
CITY PROPERTY
FOR SALE— lots. Turner & Warnock's Second
$450 each. Nine wooded lots, Block 12, Remington's Fifth,
$300 each. Eight lots. Prospect Park, $350 each : exceed
ingly cheap. Fifteen lots at $050 each, or 75 at $550. This
has 025 feet business frout and 625 feet on 6 miles of rail
road trackage. A fine addition of 224 lots, at railroad sta
tion, in factory and mill district, for $100,000, deferred
payments on or before tsn years at 7 per cent.
TnxcilAN'GK— Fine 520-acre farm at Sauk Center. Fine
JL-i 7-room new brick house. 100 lots in Minnetonka
Part for clear wild land in Minnesota and Dakota.
LOAN'S— Money at 0, 7 and 8 per cent in sums to suit.
A BABE BARGAIN.
"We offer GO feet on Second avenue south by 132 feet
on Fifth street, worth easily ?1,000 per loot, or W9 } -
000; on this property is a three-story solid brick
building, five stores below, flats above, which has
lately been valued by experts at 8*15,000. making a
total value of 9101,000. Rented so as to pay
per cent on this figure— say nothing about the in
crease in value of the ground. We are authorized to
offer this spldendid property at 985,000. Don't let
this slip you. It is one of the best things offered.
Marsh & Bartlett, - Kasota Building
F_rj\ ACRES adjoining the village of Ossco; well im-
U I _ proved. Price, $7,000.
WT ANTED— lmproved and unimproved farms in South-
VV crn Minnesota in exchange for Minneapolis prop
erty. 'iflriWltMHil
1&A - DOUBLE COBNEB, 00x130, south and east
t^~±a*J\J\J front, Thirty-second street and Nicollet.
CRrSTAL PARK PROPERTr !
Is a beautiful location, bordering on the eastern
shore of Crystal Lake. Large lots, broad avenues
and abundance of line trees. A great many lots have
been sold, and many others will be this season.
WE ARE SOLE OWNERS' OF THE SUBURB!
Real Estate, Loans, Insurance and Geieral Brokerage,
REMOVED TO
Rooms 63, 64 and 65, Stillman Block.
Over the Postoffice. Minneapolis, Minn.
EXCHANGES A SPECIALTY I
GASH FARMS AND WILD LANDS
ARE REAfIY FOB GOOD EQUITIES IN
CITY PROPERTY I
Send in your Listing and I can furnish you
a good trade and put in some cash. "
■ ' . ■
Sole Agent for
Interstate Mortgage Trust Company
Of New* England.
We have unlimited facilities for selling* first
class 3liimesota and Dakota mortgages.
We want, for Safe and Trade, Fine, Clear
Farms. Also Good Property in outside citie_.
Extra good Minneapolis City Property for lupgd
tracts of Wild Dakota Lands.
Agent and Owner of Hazel Dell Add.,
Seventeen,' Eighteen and Nineteen avenues and
Twenty-seventh street north. Also does busiiies for
non-residents cheap. Satisfaction guaranteed.
R. Im PRATT, do. -I Washington Aye... S.
Dealers in lowa, Minnesota
And Dakota Improved Farms
And Farming Lands and Minneapolis City Property
Merchandise Wanted in Exchange for Clear Real Es
tate.
, Good Tenement Blocks,
RESIDENCE & BUSINESS PROPERTY
For Sale and Exchange for Farm Lands.
PROPRIETORS OF FAIR GROUND AUDITION.
We invite the attention of investors to this property. It
is INSIDE PROPEKT and itreet can are Non KraxiHO
directly to it. franklin avenue, (MM of tho beat baldness
streets iv "Minneapolis, bounds it on the north lor half a
mile. It has the largest and finest public school building in
the city on block 1 1. We guarantee to sell these lots 'JO per
cent under the market price of lots adjoining this property.
HOUSES, LOTS, FARM LANDS
And Mortgages for Stocks of Goods,
! !SF* Correspond ence Solicited
$1,800 ~~
Handles a Triple Corner on
Twenty-seventh near Blooming
ton; east and north front; lot 59x
123 each; very cheap for a few
days only.
TO EXCHANGE!
Good Lots at Lake Minne
tonka, near station, foriiorses
or Farm Lands.
EVERHHING FOR EXCHANGE.
Send us full description of what you have to
Exchange ami tell us what you want.
Snaps in City Property for Cash.
If you want a desirable resi
dence or business lot, or house
and lot, or accessible acre prop
erty, call upon me. I can give
bargains equal to anybody.
FOR SALE Four choice East Front Lots
on First Avenue South. Great Bargain.
Two beautiful Lots, south front, on Western
I Avenue, few blocks from West Hotel. Lie high
' and dry. Money in them.
| MOUNT CURVE
Avenue lots in LAKE VIEW AD
DITION, and adjacent Residence
Property west of Hennepin, a
Specialty.
WM. RAGAN
16
South Third Street,
A. HUMPHREYS,
-REAL ESTATE
AND LOANS,
635 BOSTON BLOCK.
Marsh
AND
Bartlett.
KASOTA BUILDING
T.J. janney& co.,
Real Estate
AND LOANS,
No. 230 TEMPLE COURT.
MERRIAM
& KNEALE,
315-320
TEMPLE COURT.
NELSON, RYDELL
Ss CO.,
Rooms 63, 64 and 65,
STILLMAN BLOCK
J.F. TUBBS,
727
BOSTON BLOCK.
J. L. Beach & Go
Room 2, Ground Floor,
Lnmber Exchange.
FRANCIS
& POOL,
522 BOSTON BLOCK,
R. L. PRATT,
Real Estate,
No. 4, Wash. Aye. South.
THOS.H. PARSONS
& CO.,
113 Washington Ay. S.
J, F. TUBBS,
727
BOSTONBLOCK
Holmes & Brown,
260 Temple Court,
JfinOEAPOfJS.
Kenneth Macßae,
605
BOSTON BLOCK.
EPARD & KING, !
Nos. 661-2-3,
Bank Minneapolis B'ldg. I
Pattee & Young,
535
Boston Block.
FRANK E. GRAVES
&> CO.,
605 BOSTON BLOCK.
A. R. Chestnut, !
524
BOSTON BLOCK
Hotcbkiss & Reed, I
315
HENNEPIN AYE, j
A. H. Einmans,
309
HENNEPIN.