The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16
STUPID YOUNG MEN.
a Lively Girls Criticism on Dane

a Lively Girls Criticism on Dancins
Partners.
| am young lady, and my hear
prompts me to make known some of tn,
thoughts and feelings that are expressed
by me and my girl friends, when we hap
pen to touch upon the uninteresting sub
ject of "men." We say we never meet 8
mice" man, and>by nice we mean one
who talks, and more than that, one who
listens to US, and so carries on a CONVEX
sation.
Instead, what does he do? In ball
room he'll perhaps ask you to dance, and
Will go through a waltz in silence, if he
finds your step suits his particular idea
of the mystery. But after waltz, when
there is a pause, if you don't go down to
be fed or refreshed at the supper table
he's quite at a loss what to do with you
you are burden he seems most anxious
to get rid of, or, perhaps by an effort he
may make remark, what is it? Have
you been to the pantomime, and if so,
how did you like 1t? And when you an.
swer the question always making great
pretense of violent interest in said pan
tomime), you find he says, 80 yes, in.
deed!" you do, ell 90 or something
equally ridiculous, showing plainly that
he had forgotten what manner of ques-
ton he had asked you.
This is fair specimen of the general
type of "men'' we girls meet at dances.
Even this creature is, think, prefera-
BILE to the ''personal'' gentleman, who ex-
poets you to be interested in all details
concerning himself; his fatigue, the time
he likes to have his dinners, the number
of balls he can attend in a week, the col
ors of his socks, and the kind of shoes he
particularly fancies.
l think that everyone will agree with
me that it is hard ON an intelligent wo-
man Gas l suppose l may call myself, for
I'm over eighteen,) to be obliged to hold
communion with creatures of this sort.
1t Is not that we, all of US, do not encOur-
age men to talk, and to find out their
special subjects; l make point of do
ing so, and can also answer for the 9TH
er girls | spoke of just now; but what is
the result? If we do happen by chance
to get them beyond self, we only get 9TH
er men and their peculiarities, faults in
dancing, fit of shirt and collar; these are
all points on which "our men" will usu-
ally talk.
l am well up in the subject of shirts
and collars, being possessed of five broth
ers, but what girls do who are ignorant
of these mysteries, can't tell.
Seriously, when one comes to con over
the conversations that have taken place
between you and most of the men you
have happened to meet for the last few
months (and, worst of all, are likely to go
on meeting for the next few months, and
perhaps years., the conclusion one comes
to is that men are stupid; that they eth
er can't or won't exert themselves to talk
intelligibly when they meet an intelli-
gent girl, or they have come to the con-
clusion that all girls are next door to idi-
otto. Society must surely be bore to
these poor men; and if we may judge
from tho worn and weary expression gen
orally to be seen on the countenance of a
man who goes out much, it as a bore to
him.
l grant that some girls are stupid and
very unlnteresting; but my complaint is
that when girls are nice, Intelligent and
full of cleverness, men are so lazy, or so
blind, or stupid, that they will not be-
have to them like ordinary beings en-
dowed with the ordinary amount of
brains.