Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-17
Yankee Girls Abroad

It is doubtful whether any country IN
the world produces so many pretty
girls as America, and it is certain that
some of the prettiest in the world
are Americans. The fact is indisputa-
BILE as the causes of it are obscure. The
little New York beauty is irresistible so
long as she keeps her mouth shut, and
almost irresistible even when she opens
it. We know the dignity and bearing
of an Austrian lady, and the common
place comeliness of a little German
parvenu. We have our pet theories,
ready cut out and dry, and can apply
them to every case. The lion and the
unicorn are fighting for this crown of
beauty, and up comes the Yankee
belle and knocks them both down. The
impartial Partisan Gin suit of dittos),
standing with his hands in pockets on
the Rhine boat, and not paying the
slightest attention to the scenery, but
looking at the pretty girls of all the
countries in the world, singles out the
New York Venus in moment. He has
not doubt but he is right, and she
thinks that he's an excellent judge.
And yet everything is against her. She
comes to us across the Atlantic with
that horrible twang that spoils every
thing, and of which she seems utterly
unconscious. She perks it up in your
face with the most provoking sang
froid. Her mother accompanies her,
and hatchet-faced Objectionable broth
er, who seems to have the grace to know
that he is not a gentleman, and is, in
consequence, alternately depressed and
defiant. A man, however matrimo nially
inclined, gazing on that alpaca mother,
finds serious courtship difficulty. A
little general Irritation is, however, de-
ightful; and it is impossible to with
stand so much beauty, set off by such q
charm of manner. The little American
does not object to the Irritation; but
she has a frugal mind, and knows the
kind of lover who is likely to develop
into husband. Yet, with all her frr-
gaiity, she has mind on pleasure bent;
and flirting, which in England is a
practice and in France an occupation,
is for her science, which she studies
conscientiously, and in which she
makes daily progress. She is still
young, perhaps not out of her teens;
but she has heard great deal, seen a
great deal, knows great deal, and GER
tainly makes no secret of her expe-
rience. She is perfectly frank, and her
absolute realism protects her from some
of the bad effects which Irritation pro-
duce in England. It is hard to avoid
admiring her, and it is impossible to
believe that the lady in alpaca is her
mother.-Mayfair.
The Mclean" Woman.
Cleanliness is an excellent acquire
ment. It is so great an requirement
that one does not wonder that the sent
ence Cleanliness is next to Goodness
was popularity supposed, for an indefi-
mite period, to be quotation from the
Bible. Cleanliness is the chief distinc-
ton between the tramp and many mill
ionaires, albeit there have been many
millionaires who could not claim even
this advantage over the tramp. But the
sentence, Cleanliness is next to God
liness," cannot be found in the BIZ
BILE, nevertheless. You cannot have too
much Goodness, too much temperance,
too much discretion, too much wisdom,
but you can have too much neatness.
There have been overneat men. We
have met one or two in our time. They
always get up in the night to eat, and
are enemies of sleep as they are of dirt.
But they are not so numerous nor so
pestiferous as the overneat woman.
Who has not met the overneat woman ?
We do not need to describe her. But
we will. Revenge is sweet. She makes
her husband exchange his boots for
slippers on the doorstep. No matter
how low the thermometer OF barometer
the poor fellow must doff his boots in
the porch. Is he wet? He must stay
on the stoop till he has done dripping
Consumption What is that compared
with soiled carpet? The small boy
what life he leads with such mother
Followed about by a dust-pan and
neat woman is always CROSSE all of child
hoods days, he early runs to club
room or beer saloon where he can see
little rubbish and find the luxury Of
dirt. We once knew lady of this
character who, when lightning provi
dentially struck her house and killed g
servant, swept up the evidencing dirt
the shock had dislodged before the
Coroner could be called.
These "pizen-clean" women always
hate to have company. "Guests are SO
dirty, you know" The parlor is kept
dark and unused from year to year.
The carpets would fade and dust would
accrue. We once knew woman who
refused to open her parlor for the we'd
ding of her daughter. "The street is
too dusty" she said. She is dust now.
They opened the parlor for the funeral,
and one almost wonders that she did
not turn over in her coffin.
The overneat woman cleans house
twice year. Twice year the uncom-
Portable husband and children are
made doubly uncomfortable. The weak
ness of the flesh alone deters her from
housekeeping every moon. The over
neat woman delights to make people
uncomfortable. She is thin, dyspeptic,
has nerves, is troubled with dirt on the
brain. Dirt on the brain is very wear
ing to the constitution, and the hyper