Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-15


For my mouth to cape for save queens,
ELAINE.
IS ,cie.y editor of the Sunday Globe.)
DEAR MULDooN: As your remarks in
former issues show happy desire to treat
on such subjects as interest mankind IN
matters relating to its social nature, and
at tbs same time to wing folly as she flies
You nlay, perhaps find space in your val
liable PAPER for few sentences on sub
ject which has called for some speculation
on the part of several young men who,
while they have not been victims, do yet
feel the indirect results of certain neg
alive ostraciSm.
To come to the point, we have reached
the conclusion that the times with regard
to matrimonial matters, as the melancholy
Dane said, are somewhat out of joint
while 1t doesn't seem to be anyOne's mis-
sion to set 'em right. Th9 matter referred
to Is the morbid desire shown by young
ladies throughout all walks of life to con-
tract an alliance in military life and so
great and consuming is the desire to shine
III this particular that we have known
Young lady. whose station or claims to
beauty are not above the average, to open
IL declare that she for one, would not think
of marrying outside tie army Or navy, and
strange as it may seem the young lady's
parents fully endorsed her sentiments.
Now. while nothing can be said as to the
perfect right of all to select from whatever
rank IN life they choose, and while We
would last Of ali cast any reflection on the
honorable career Of arms, it does seem
to man up tree as if this matter Of pre-
destination, as it were, was carrying the
thing 4 triie to far. Understand, dear sir,
that We are not Jealous, nor afraid of hold
ing oGr own, our desire being to have no
exclusion. but to open the jousts to all and
let the strangest arm and lance carry OFF
the prize.
Hoping you will not consider this in
pertinent, we have the honor to subscribe
ourselves KNIGHTS OF THE FREE LANCE.
Soft you gentlemen: go SLOW. The
above communication is q reminder Of the
lily maid of the poem, who loved her
knight with love which was her doom.
1t would hardly be the thing in free
country to say aught against the passion
so ardently cultivated amongst the fair of
ali chimes and ages for the men who seek
glory in the gallant pursuit of arms. The
young men of the Free Lance are sadly
wanting in knowledge of the female
heart if they have rot learned the power
oYa- that peculiar or-aG Of spoulctis and
moI.tei burtol.+. ii:->i IL ole sense III,
preference is natural, for how indeed
would the brave heroes be stimulated to
action were it not for the thoughts of the
glances and the applause kept in waiting
for them by the fair. 1t is not enough to
explain that other walks of life offer in
ducements Of greater ease and more Sc,
ductive attractions. As to the instance OF
'predestination," cited it may be character
lied as partaking of the modern malady
becoming so prevalent and known as the
swelled head.
To employ a homely metaphor, instan-
ces of this disease are as common and
thick a. hair on goats back. We knew
girl once upon a time in Minneapolis
who wore Boston bangs and could caper
the three step valse glide with a vanishing
grace of movement, who wasn't going to
marry anything less than a commissioned
officer in the regular army, who lived in
single bliss till she was thirty-fve and
then got struck on e. bow legged private in
militia company, who manipulated the
apparatus of a street sprinkling chario
for q livelihood.