St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-28
THE LADY RAMBLER.
She Treats Of Things OF Interest tt
Her Sex Alone.

She Treats Of Things Of Interest to
Her Sex Alone.
It is great comfort to remember as one
watches the cavalcade of elegant equipages
that file around the park, while trudging
about hearing as much of the music as is
compatible with the lodging of baby car
riages, dogs, small boys and preoccupied
lovers who would die sooner than yield an
inch Of the walk, that prominent and
well-informed society man who really
knows, you know, says that sit is quite
astonishing, the number of common people
who are setting up carriages"
AS I was peacefully meandering down
Third street the other day my attention
was attracted by a mysterious object that
hung in one of those shop windows where
are displayed articles of adornment dear to
the feminine heart. In shape it was some
thing of cross between an Old-fashioned
sugar-scoop and a poke-bonnet; in material
it was straw, fact that at first inclined me
to think it was intended for the head.
took second look, however, and tumbled
lat least should have tumbled if had not
given up the use of slang); it was a hustle.
A hustle of straw! Novel idea! Beautiful
thought For summer wear, what
could be more cool, comfortable and airy?
And yet, young man, when you meet, on
the lawn, in the ball room, by the ''sad"
lake wave,. a bewitching damSel, with dra-
peries that have just the right sweep and
fluff and float, do not be too anxious to Sc
cure for her comfortable seats; if she seems
to prefer standing UP, let me caution you as
friend, do not argue the question and in
your solcitude for her welfare insist upon
her sitting down; but remember that buStles
are not always made of iron and steel and
may be frail and perishable, and that the
sudden collapse of ones underpinning is
not always desirable.
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Utterly vain, however, and worse than
useless is all attempt to make clear to the
masculine mind the mystery of female ap-
parel; for the average male has On the sub.
ject certain number of fixed ideas, gotten,
goodness knows where. unless evolved from
his inner CONSCIOUSNESS, and like grim death
does he hold to them. You could not, for
instance, by any force of logic or train OF
reasoning persuade him that all women do
not pinch and fiatten themselves with cor
sets that are perfect instruments of tOrtue;
and, as for bustles, despite the fact
that they have been worn for years by his
mother and grandmother and wife and sis
tiers and cousins, he is morally certain that
nothing but newspaper is ever used in
their construction and the poor jokes that
he has made on the subject would fill sew
eral almanacs. Happy in his fixed beliefs,
he finds his own humor amusing and his
sarcasm Instructive; hence we seek not to
enlighten him, but we would ask his lord
ship not to lose his temper and become ex-
cited if we occasionally venture to mildly
criticise the shape of his coat or the color of
his hat.
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A young man may have listened very at
tentively to the preacher as that worthy
held forth upon the temptations that infest
summer watering places, and particularly
cautioned the youth of his fold against en-
tering into hasty and ill-advsed matrimon-
iaI alliances; and he may have started for
the lakes with the best intentions as regards
caution and prudence and for time he may
have faithfully kept his noble resolu-
tions and then some fine summer
afternoon, when the sun is sink
ing in the west, he will find HIM
self the propellihg power of a little row.