Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-15
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
The Managing Mamma.


And swels with triumph as her wares depart;
In velvet clad, with well bejeweled hands,
She has smile for him who owns broad lands
And wears her nodding plumes with rare effect
In passing poverty with head erect.
She tries each would-b, sutton in the scale
That social scale whose balance does not fail;
So much for wealth. much for noble blood,
Deduct for age, or for some clInRing mud.
Her daughters too. well tutored by her art,
All unreiuctant in her game take part;
Or weakly passive. yield themselves to 1ate,
Knowing full well resistance is too late.
Thus are the victims II the altar led,
With shining robes and flowers upon the mead;
There, at the holy shrine. mid sacred ~ vows,
she fancies heaven will bless what earth allows,
And sells her child to Mammon v it'll smile,
While MephistopheleS approves the style!
Common Sense of Women.
10 tell tho truth, we are surprised
that the women folks show the amount
of common sense they do. Young nan,
supposing you were told, say twenty
Zines day, how bright your eyes are,
what magnificent tresses are yours, how
enchanting your society is; how incest,
sweetest, best you are; how long, think
you, before you would develop into the
assiest kind of o jackass-always pro-
vided you were not one at the start?
Masculine and Feminine Morality.
I could never understand the oppo-
site systems of weights and measures
which have been established for gaug-
ing morality among men and women.
The strictest among us allow that a
young man should SOW his wild oats;
but who ever admitted the same neces
sity in the case of girls? We say that
man should have his anusements-hi
clubs, cigars, race horses, firtations and
iquorings; but supposing our women
and girls came to us reeking of tobacco?
Surprising they addicted themselves
openly to nips of grog and absinthe
when their spirits were low? Suppos-
ing they sat down to quiet rubbers of
whist Or ecarte, gambling away their
household money to while off the dull
hours? We demand so much excellence
Of our women that the worst of them
are still better than the average man. I
have known some women who were
social outcasts, and who in point OF
heart, conduct and general moral recti-
tude, might have furnished stuff for
the making of upright gentlemen, in
deed. They had fallen once, it is true,
but what o fearful penalty they had
been made to pay for that one slip, while,
by comparison, the kindred penalties
of men are so slight. If a young man
gets mixed up in some disgrace1ul en-
tanglement, breaks heart, and throws
a young girl upon the streets, after
having ruined her life, people say of
him, compassionately, by-and-by, Gle
was so young when he did it, and now
he has turned over a new leaf" but if
an inexperienced girl, mere child Of
16 or II, comes to harm through mo-
ment's weakness, born Of too much love
and over-confdence il her betrayer,
who ever thinks Of pleading her youth
as an excuse? Who ever urges, serious
ly, that girl "has turned over a new
leaf ?"- Elizabeth BlackaCeU, NJ. D.
How She Kept an Expense Account.
"My dear fellow" said Lavender,
sits all very nice to talk about econo-
MIXING and keeping a right rigid ac-
count of expenses and all that sort of
thing, but I've tried it. 1--we weeks
ago stopped on my way home Satur-
day night, and bought just the gayest
little classification, cream-laid paper
account book you ever saw, and silver
pencil to match it. I said to my wife,
after supper: MY dear, it seems to me
that it costs a lot OF money to keep
house,
"She sighed and said, L know
it does, Lavvy, but I'm sure l can't help
it. I'm just as economical as [ can be.
1 don't spend half as much money for
candy as you do for cigars
81 never take any notice Of person
alities, SO I sailed right ahead. I be-
ieve, my dear, that if we were to keep
a strict account of everything we spend
we could tell just where to cut down.
I've bought you little account book,
and every Monday morning I'll give
you some money, and you can set it
down on one side, and then during the
week you can set down on the other
side everything you spend, and then on
Saturday night we can go over it and
see just where the money goes and how
we can boil things down little
"Well, sir, she was just delighted
thought it was first-rate plan, and the
pocket account book was lovely-regu-
lar David Copperfeld and Dora bust
ness. Well, sir, the next Saturday
night we got through supper and she
brought out the account book as proud
as possible, and handed it over for in
spection. On one side was, Received
from Lavvy $50. That's all rightl
Then I looked on tho other page, and
what do you think was there? Spent
it allP Then I laughed, and, of course,
we gave up the account-book racket on
the spot, by mutual consent. Yes, sir,
I've been there, and I know what do
nestle economy means, I tell you.
Let's have a cigar"
Cigars Not Necessarily Tobacco.