Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-10
ENGLISH GIRLS OFTHEDAy.
The Way im Witch Maides.s Grosv Up and
Get YielCs Of Life.

AHe way N UHfCU IuUtOeHS dfOC Up anu
Get Vieacs Of Life.
A letter from the San Francisco Asgo-
naut says: ''People do say it is this constant
con.psNionship with men, and mixing with
them in their field sports, that give the
fashionable English girl of the day all her
love for 'manisf" ways and make her the
slangy, horseys rapid creature we so often
find her. Perhaps people are right Yet
what real harm, after all, if girls do wear
stand up collars and scarf-pins, and hunt.
fish, shoot. play billiards ana smoke!
None, certainly, if their hearts are
all right. Besides look at the models
they have. The Empress of Austria seems
only happy in the saddle, and no less per-
sonaGes than the Princesses Louise and
Beatrice smoke cigarettes. Such actions
are, of course, likely to shock the sensi-
bilities, not alone of our grandmOthers.
but of certain type Of young lady whose
conversational powers are limited to un-
dertoned replies of 'yes" and mo-" and
whose proper bringing up is exhibited in
a painfully studious avoidance of either
showing her feet or separating her knees
while sitting down. But woman nova
days does not care to please her own sex
as much as the other, and it is only
| too clear which sort of young lady is
| the most attractive to men, and which
kind of girls get the dances at the balls
and the most attention everywhere. Men
| are pretty good judges of women, and if
they don't object and are willing to make
their wives out of girls who know more of
| horse flesh than they do of botany,
and prefer Whit of smoke to ylang ylang
or Atkinson's white rose. it is their own
lookout and no one else's business.
know young LADY who lives down in
one of the southern counties. She is one
of the prettiest girls in England. has five
thousand year in her own right, is just
three and-twenty and the daughter of a
peer whose pedigree goes back to the con-
quest and whose country house is the
show-place of the country. To look at her
you would think her the quietest of the
quiet, and that she hadn't an idea beyond
crochet and weak tea. But she hunts, mas
her own stable, keeps four hunters, now
and then rides a steeple chase, buys and
sells her own horses without help from
any one; has her own wine merchant, wine
cellar and tObaccOnist; fences, boxes,
skates and rows; has her boudoir deco
rated with fcils, gloves. whips, horse shoes
and hunting trophies; smokes cigarettes
during The day and cigars after dinner; IS
a capital judge Of ciaret and port and eau
tell Amontlllado from MARSHA with her
eyes shut; is fir$t-rate shot with 81 shot
gun Or rock rife; draws Ter own ciiarges,
and pays her own bills; and last, though
not least, has a delightful way of letting
you see her ankle when she puts one leg
over the other in sitting down, that would
make prim old dowager faint, ard get
hersat upon directly By the sly ones. Yet
she has never been known to tiirt, has re-
fused more offers than the quiet ones
dreamed of receiving, and once, it is re-
lated, taught the prince of Wales a lesson
by stopping in the middle of a valse with
him at stale ball at Buckingham
palace, and refusing to go On because he
held her tighter than she considered prop
er. You can't cali girl like that fast.
But she knows enough to take care of her
self, and if her companionship with the
young swells of the day and her imitation
of their talk and ways has taught her to
prefer their friendship to their love, it is
not unlikely she is nearer right in her esti-
mate of her fellow beings than are the
dragonesses of propriety who regard her
with adherence, but are willing to sell
their bashful maidens to the first libertine
or titled scapegrace whose establishment
and rent roll make him in their eyes de-
Sirab!e Darti,