St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01
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Brooks Adams, son of the late
as much. He is about thirty-eight, and
has acquired a reputation for eccen-
tricity. His temper is peppery, and his
inclination is toward politics, literature
and theology. He is decidedly good
looking and affect the sober Union
club.
Alanson Tucker runs the Country club
The affairs of that exceedingly swell in
stitution occupy most Of his spare time.
He has some money and is rather hand
some in the tlorid way. HOrsey and
doggy. 81
George A. Goddard is lawyer, with
no necessity for clients. He is one OF.
the older young bachelors, and spends
like him but he does not care much forl
their society. Boating and yachting
claim good deal of his attention. He
drives well-matched pair. g
Arthur Bonner, the Austrian consul.
here, enjoys like income. He is a.
handsome fellow in the English styleI
and we'll built physically. A steward
of the MyOpia Hunt. a 2
s. Eliot Guild is assessed on the mat
rimonial tax lists at 900 per annum.a
tie is dancing man and a leader of
germans. Were it not for the extreme
hauteur of his manner he would be.
more popular. Those who do not like
him call him prig. He is fairly good
looking. q, |
r. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., known ia
military as "Jeffy," was graduated at
Harvard two years ago and is now
studying law. A profession, however,
is not altogether necessary to him, since
his father and mother both have lots of
money. He is very comedy and remark
ably steady. Three of Boston's most
beautiful girls call him brother. He is
quite ladies' man and shining light
of the Puritan club.
Josiah Quincy is quiet youth of
twentyeight, with little money, but of
New England's pureSt blood. He is a
lawyer and a member of the state legis-
lature, in which he is known as
him as one of her most promising young
men. He does not go out at ali, and
only belongs to the Union club.
Henry Parkman is another lawyer,
nearly ten years older than Quincy. No
list would be complete without him. He
spends rather more than $4,000 year
and goes in for athletics. He is men,
Der of all the clubs and has red hair.
Francis w. Lee and S. Dacre Bush
are typical young society men, though
neither has very much money. They
are both popular in the Somerset and
Country clubs.
DR.. Russell Sullivan is not only swell
socially, but literary man as well. He
has written number of successful
plays and is an accomplished linguist.
He is tall, slight and nice looking. with
manner surprisingly shy for man of
tbirty-fve.
Lawrence Rotch, brother of Arthur,
is worth not less than half million. His
passion is meteOrolOgy, and he has set
up weather bureau Oh Milton hill, near
the city, which issues predictions 100
per cent moIe reliable than the signal
service at Washington sends out. He is
thirty and does not 60 very much to
parties and things.
Anybody who is at all acquainted
with social affairs in Boston will recOg-
niZe the above as pretty cOmprehen-
Sive list of the eligible men in the best
set here. There are plenty of nice
young fellows just outside of the eXclu-
Slve 9rahmin caste, with unlimited cash
and uneXceptionabIe manners; but for
them no space can be found in an arti-
Gle devoted, as this is, to gilded youths
within the charmed circle of fashion.
1t will be noticed that nearly all the,
bachelors mentioned are over thirty
years of age, and it may be asked
why so many potential husbands of
such exceptional deSirability should re-
main unmarried. 1t must be admitted
that in Boston society the men are not
much given to matrimony. They dance
well and f1irt most effectively; but how
ever addicted to lOve-making for fun,
they are apt to steer clear of wedlock.
A cynical philosopher has attributed
this fact to the unattractiveness of Bos-
ton girls. Many of them are pretty
enough, but lacking in that indefinabie
charm which is the ultimate grace, Of
of wOmanhOod. Their manners are cold
and stiff, doubtless owing in measure
to the climate, and frequently they
know too much.
Beyond all this, the active intellectual
life of the modern Athens has its liz
fiuence. In country village the rustic
swain, with hayseed in his hair, has diff
ficulty in finding anything wherewith to
amuse the leisure hour. Ateventide he
yawns over the prospect of nothing to
do until bedtime, and says to himself,
''B'gOSh, guess I'll slick up little and
go and see Anna Maria" In the course
of time he discovers that Anna Maria is
essential to his comfort, and he marries
is so much activity of all sorts that wo-
man, lovely woman, is rendered less alb
sorbingly attractive through the compe-
titiOn into which she is compelled to
enter with rival masculine interests.
Chief among these are the clubs, to
which the writer will devote a future
article. merely quoting. to wind up with,
a remark made the other day by mid
dle-aged society beau across little
table in the Somerset dining room.
'Why should marry?" he said. "Not
to secure home, surely, for [ have one
already here, with thirty trained sery-
wants to wait upon me, the best of every
thing to eat and drink, and no squalling
babies or other annoyances to bother me.
All this L get for 500 year. In bach
elor apartment house close by have a
cosy suite of rooms where 1 entertain
my friends once or twice a week.
In society l receive the attention due to
person who is still an available parti,
and have always the satisfaction Of
knowing that | can readily obtain a
wife if at any time 1 should want one.
But l cannot see how. the possession of
an angel in petticOatS would add to my
comfort or happiness"
So long as life is made so agreeable
for the unattached masculine brute, it
is to be feared that the hopeless surplus
of girls in the upper social stratum of
this cultivated metropolis will continue
to grow. MARY B. HoLBRooK.
A Hint to Inventors,