St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-04
JEALOUSY AND FILTRATION
Descanted Upon I'm n Knowing Man.
ner by tsBab.3

Descanted Upon I'm n Knowing MAN.
ner by ssBab.''
My Dear Dorothy: That stupid people
are always with us is never so thoroughly
proven as during these days that seem to
belong to spring, and yet which tire one
out. mentally and physically. The people
who are professionally pleasant ought TO be
doing their duty now. and not permitting
the rest of the world to be entirely witless.
OF course, you will be tempted to perpetrate
that wretched joke about there being no
sessity to make them so. as Providence
iias saved all trouble i'm that direction. but
even when you say that, my dear, 1 am
sure you do not believe it. We have had
people staying with us lately, and do pos
itively declare I'll have no more jealous
wives about me. It's not only such
wretched
BAD FORM TO BE JEALOUS,
but it's ruinous to ones nervous system.
The Blacks were here. and Mrs. Black be-
haved abominably; her husband was only
having little fun with one of the brides
maids at Lily Bells wedding, and really
you would have thought the girl was going
to run away with him. But madame was
funnily fooled. You know how wide my
doors are; well, that little coquette and
Monsieur Black were standing against the
door, when they heard madame coming;
she wears so many bangles that her coming
is always heralded.
Retreat? No place to go. Quick as pos
sibe they opened the door, which made a
corner back of it. and monsieur managed to
put chair against il. which looked as if 1t
belonged there. In the corner were the two
culprits. And when / entered the room
madame was on the chair. SO there was no
escape for them. l saw the situation, and
determined to worry them little. So there
/ stood by madame, and listened to her
walls about her husband. He is not half
her age, and, as she bought him with her
money. she ought TO be willing TO undergo
the torment Occasioned by so delicate toy.
She told me he was so easily led astray.
and that wicked fast girls played upon his
innocence and induced him to do things he
never even dreamed of. Dolly, Just here
that rascal deliberately kissed his CON-
panion, who did not dare resist. and then he
wINKED KNOWINGLY
at me. coughed dreadfully to get over
my laugh. and Mrs. Black was very much
excited about my singnlarly hysterical
cough. After awhile induced her to &c
and have some tea. and as soon l could
returned to see the culprits. ! suppose il
was dreadful-but they laughed until they
cried, and l did, too. The picture of Mrs.
Black seated against that door and her boy
husband and pretty girl just back Of Il
was quite too much. Jack thinks il wa:
awful because he wasn't there. Mrs.
Black quite approves Of Jack. by the bye,
because he fools her, and / am sure she
! thinks if everything in the world wert
properly arranged she would be welded tC
him. / hold this out to him as an induce
ment If he should ever become a Mormon,
but somehow men are so queer, he objects
and says she is too fiabby. Now, if sht
weren't fat then he'd say ''no living
skeleton for me-" Would you not think
Mormon might equalize by having one verI
fat and one very thin wife?
Tell Elise that If, as she says, fiirtins
with the curate is only to keep in practice
, then it's all right. but it must stop the las
week of Lent. For Lenten recreation I
isn't bad, and will keep her out of wOrs,
mischief, but she will be wise if she let
the tendresse disappear with the attraction
consequent upon
NEW SPRING FRoCKs.
: The little Grape undervests are as prett,
as possible, and take the place of the sill
ones that grow too warm in the earl,
spring. Pink, blue and pale yellow one.
are hung up in the shop windows to show
men what they might wear if they wer'
only women. However, the temptation
has not, to my knowledge, affected any OF
them so far. Still the temptation in its rose
colored form might be very great, and only
circumstances over which they have no con
troll, such as a heavy mustache or a pro
nouncedly rough voice, would keep then
from going in and buying these dainty little
things. Some do-for their sisters or tn,
poor.
Are you keeping up your French durinl
Lent? / have inquired, and as it is for i'm
provement you can read anything you want
Plays are very amusing. especially tn
younger Dumas. o Dorothyl do you re
member the Lent we read French play
with such a delightful party and how aw
fully was in love with that poor lawyer
All my books were marked by him. AM
when we read the love speeches they wer
directly at each other. It's true that wa
engaged to be married, but liked to fee
as If were being
DRIVEN TO THE ALTAR
''hounded by those who courted wealth an
thought nothing of the most sacred feeling
of woman's heart" He used to say that
and then I'd cry-Jack was i'm Florid
shooting alligators; but when he came HON
and saw 1.-The hero" he calmly told me {
go ahead and have good time-no harI
would come to me from that fellow.
s Then was furious. After trying to be
lieye him dangerous villain, playing wit
my young affections. he was made out en-
tirely inOffensive. hated him then. II
got married about three years ago. and hi
wife has funny-looking one eye; don
know its scientific name. but nothing woul
make 1t nretty. Who could help wondel