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Show restraints upon . their "understandings," while ; St. Louis was an old town, where the best blood of the South witha mingling of' select French had been intermingling for three generations, with the result that the veins shone blue in', the. feet of the-ladies, and those feet reflected back the unmistakable fact that high-blood is as apparent in the foot of a woman wo-man as in the cup-formed, dainty foot of a horse which has only desert blood in his arteries. Chicago grew still and humbled under the contest, and at once began importing thoroughbred men and women, wo-men, from the blue-bloods of Boston and the scions of the Knickerbockers of 'Manhattan Island and vicinity. vi-cinity. : ' -i. :- ; .. ,. -' r 7 We will be forced to learn further what special art the Mirror has in mind before we can answer its question. However, from a few brief visits to the fcity we have a suspicion that the art of lying in some )f the tall houses of the city1 has been cultivated culti-vated until it shows such perfection that it has all the naturalness of nature itself. . ART IN ST. LOUIS. " . The St. Louis Mirror asks: "Is Art on the Bum ' in St. Louis?" ' We should say that would be according to the j ert. desired. The art of making beer a St. Louis is ; a fine one, equal to any of the old masters, nW j while many a Bum drinks it there is nothing Bum i iD the flavor, the aromathe bead, the amber shade I oi the headache effect. The tin-plate ud marbleizbd ware arts are at .'. perfection in the big city by the Big Muddy. Hiram . of Tyre sent up artisans of the first class to do the : gold and silver and bronze work on the big temple ' for Solomon, but riot one of them could make tin plate or a marbleized coffee pot such as the German piri8 turn out of the machines of Mr. Niedringhaus f St. Lou is. ., But possibly. the Mirror refers to painting and frtatuaryahd kindred arts. Ot those we are not so '.well posted. , Many years ago when St. Louis and Chicago were supposed to be rivals and challenges v ere wont to pass between the two pities,-on one ' occasion a conscienceless reporter put out in a Chi-'fiipo Chi-'fiipo newspaper an intimation that in order to ; ; equalize the mud of St. Louis, the ladies of that vil-Inge vil-Inge had developed feet of a magnitude that made those of a webfooted Oregon lady look like veritable Cinderillas by comparison. This was, so to speak, treading on most sensitive- toes. The St. Louis l.tdies forgot their innate diffidence and were' crazy -show down 'on any street-crossing with the "fH of Chicago. And they had the best of it, for x,( that time Chicago was a parvenu town most of ,lhe females had come in from the rural regions, and, iiough reseryed and modest had never placed any, r ' , . '-V '. J |