Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-01
THE SOCIAL WORLD.

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The society editor of the Sunday GLOBE,
received last week 1.-THE following unique
and sensible letter, which being volume
ia itself, is herewith printed in full
My Dear Mr.. Muldoon:
If you are the dear, old bald-headed
bachelor you make out to be, you will
come gallantly forward to the aid of us
girls. by whom mean your humble SER
want, and several young ladies in our set.
You know we have got scheme and what
we want is to have it agitated, as my
brother Tom (who is a politician) says,
and we just mean to confide in you, al
though papa said on reading one of your
articles that if he was betting
man he would bet the lemonade
and wore your stockings cut bias and that
you had got left some how in your youth.
You see, I live at home with papa and
mamma andlthe boys, and, although am
eighteen, have never appeared much in
society, and then papa says it doesn't look
nice for young ladies to be too forward,
eand that if young gentleman wants to
look around for wife he will prefer seek
ing one in the home cir
Gle rather than the drawing
or bali room, that is if his head is level.
Now then, Mr.. Society Muldoon, we girls
have been looking ever so long for these
level-headed gentlemen, and when 1 ask
Tom if such and such an admirer is what
papa calls level-headed, he tells me to
please give him rest. But dear me, you
dear, sensible old bachelors who live in
sanctums and bachelor halls, don't know
what kind Of time We girls have with
some of these soft young men. Now then
this brings me to our scheme, which I had
almost forgotten. I know you will like it
because Mr.. Primrose, our preacher, says it
might become great lever to aid in the
improvement Of society. We intend that
our plan shall be substitute for the heavy
and tiresome dinners, vapid drawing room
receptions and miserable teas of society
and at the same time institute generous
and wholesome rivalry between young
ladies.
The CLAN is to have monthly meeting
or oftener if desirable, at the home of
some young lady to be designated, and
that all who receive invitations shall sub
NIT for inspection some article of pre-
pared food such as bread, cake, pie, game.
meat, vegetables, ETC., and that the same
shall be subjected to the award of COM
mittee of disinterested judges to be Sc
lected By unanimous vote. Of course the
article submitted must be the work of the
lady furnishing it. now then,
you know what our scheme is
please let US know through your column
what you think of it. Yours truly,
CAROLINE WHIFFET.
2. SIN preparing the article, no OBJ
lection will be made if reference is had to
q good cook book.
In commenting upon the above, we
should be recreant to duty if illusion was
not FIST made to the blushing reference in
the epistle to ourselves.
In the first place we don't object to be-
ing tickled with such tender marks of af-
lection as crop out in the opening sentence
of our fair correspondents valuable letter,
and that we are both old and baldheaded,
is fact referable to time and early piety.
As for the rest excessive modesty forbids
refutation; but while we shall cherish
the touching illusion as one of the bright
ect gems Of memory. exception will have
to be taken to the insinuation of the
young lady's parent.
AS to bong a cross grained crank, We
partially succnmb to the soft impeach-
ment, also that there may have been pc
Rod in the callow time of youth when we
got left, but when man states that our
socks are cut bias, we kick on the basis
that it is not square deal. A man may
q lose his hair and be old and slightly off his
t7f hot J., 4l,ol ,I 4,- L.
wear cross-eyed hose, never.
As to the scheme proposed by Miss
Whiffet, the GLOBE is free to say, that the
idea, IS the essence of good judgement and
sense, and that it has in it the elements of
popularity and success. Such plan
would indeed be great moral lever. 1t
would educate the young lady of to-day,
in the useful arts so honored by her
mother and so shamefully neglec-
ted in this drawing room era
of civilization, and in the
course of time she might really become an
intelligent helpmate to man, an orna-
ment to her home and useful member of
society. Such scheme would also be a
great snap for the young men; it would
consolldate the phalanX OF candidates for
favor and give each man solid chance to
test his preference.
Then it would help that class of strug-
Cling aspirants who do light work and
hang out in cheap boarding houses. They
could attend all meetings and smuggle
enough cake, pie and other goodies to keep
their bones from shaking through the most
severe winter. In short, the plan is the
most favorable diversion offered in years,
and it should meet with the hearty encour-
agement of st. Paul society.
JOttings.
A. B. Stickney is back from the east.
p. H. Kelly is on a trip to the sea-
board.
7. F. KNAPP and wife, Montevideo, are at
the Windsor.
Herman Greve returned last week from