The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18


in The divine right of rich people to
please themselves. He had q Hartiaiity
for pretty women, especially Tor one
cav Young married woman, vile oI a
stock broker, n Of the new people;
and when the doctor ordered him down
10 Florida for the winter, what does he
do but write up TO her family, asking
that she should be allowed to come down
and take care ofhim2 Down she flutter-
ed with trunks and toilets bew. itching,
Installed herself at his side, and al
last got him to make a will in her favor,
giving her the bulk of his millions. The
family threatened to put her letters in
court, and a compromise was made by
which she got q hundred thousand or
so Her husband is remarkably pleased
with the financial ability Of his wife, and
both move III the gayest of gay society.
The world is wide, and, as one lady OF
ir~reproachable notions said, "ifyou shut
sinners out of society you don't always
know whether it is they or you that are
outside the most. l don't make such
persons my bosom friends, or ask them
to my house, neither when ! meet them
do | feel obliged to sit as judge and jury
Oh nv fellow-creatures;" which express
| es the amiahle sentiments of society to-
ward pleasant people in general.
Leaving out the fiawed peaches, there
is another sort Of Boston girl, delicate
of complexion, with bright, expressive
eyes, and lace all gay, with quick intelli.
gencr, swaying figure, dancing step, and
style more si4Sple and perfect than that
o. ANY other women made. she does
not transfx you with repaEtse, HKe
your clever Californians; she hasn't so
much o. the bouncing name OF the
New York girl. Away from the men,
she isn't sentimental as the Alabamian,
who. is quite capable of Quoting "Marmi-
on" TO you at any time, nor does she
tolerate poems Of the st. Louis Milwau-
kee order. She is the kind of girl her
father takes comfort in talking 10, and
never needs snubbing from her brother
to keep Der in order. She isn't turned
out to order by the dozen, like those in
sipid model young English ladies who
come over travelling with their papas
and mammas. and who give you the
idea Of needing to be kept in boxes all
their lives. The Boston girl is made to
order and the pattern broken. The
voices, of well bred young women here
are curiously alike; and have turned
80 often to greet a friend, whose soft,
tunable voice | could have sworn to,
and found a stranger, that it is more
frequent than amusing. Perhaps
from something ] have said before, you
get the idea that a Boston girl knows
how to dress, She don't wear palm-leai
cashmere suits with ten-inch fringes on
the street, like the tip-tOp Denver girl,
or cross quagmires in ruby v~elvets, like
the gorgeous young ~cattle-queen afore-
said. She frequently wears rubbers,
and writes on postal cards sometimes,
but o are neve tempted ia take her
for an actress or a parlor-maid out. You
see her walking down the common with
her gray-headed papa mornIngs-he on
his way to business; she, with her EN-
broidered bag of books, on her way to
lessons-both chatting like good COM
rades. Her mamma does not find it
necessary to send a French maid with
her every time she goes out al one; at
least only tire stock-DroKers tine new
people) do that, and nice work the girls
and the maidstogether make sometimes.
The smart American girl savors
enough misch eff without having IA
French. bonnie 10 teach her any more
than she knows already.
Boston is q woman's city, where they
come and go with an independence
highly convenientto all concerned. The
m tminas can remember when it was not
etiquette for ladies to visit the Athen-
aeum Art Gallery in day time without an
escort, and they are not likely TO wish
their daughters under any such restric-
tons. Tie fine slender girls | meet
stepping across the common to their les
sons, with that deer-like carriage of the
head that suits their soft, serious eyes,
and their faces which have the limo
cence of thoughtfll, well-informed child
dressed in plain English suits Of forest
green cashmere, with close capes, furry
hat and feather, trim to the tips of their
frills, gloves, and boots. are an order of
young ladyhood one could bear
to see oftener. Such girls
will never need their freedom abridged.
LII their IN wish 10 have a game
dinner we at Point Shirley-which is
across the bay for San F~rancisco--they
make mp a party and have, if anything,
a better time than their husbands who
may be dining IN the next room, as
happened once Women In society 90
to opera aud theatre unattended and un
criticised. As one enyious girl said:
New York people of family think they
can't 60 anywhere without the carriage
and a guard OF honor; here the nice peo
pie think they can go everywhere and
ANYHOW" What's the good of being
better family than everybody else, If you
can't do as you please2