St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-14


dent Good evening"" walk beside her
for half block or more. With no po-
liceman in sight, there is nothing for
her to do but bolt ahead, heart in
mouth, and, by giving no sign of the
intruder'S presence, discourage further
advances. Every shadow, to the be-
lated feminine foot traveller, shrieks
Murder" at her, and, with the noise
of crowd of drunkardS, who are sure
to be braWling somewhere within hear
ing distance. or the frightened cry that
suggests some WOrSe-cOnditiOned sister
in despair, the chorus of our streets
after midnight is calculated to rob the
aspiring female of every spark of am
bition, and fill her with the bitter reali-
cation that to be great is not to be
happy.
A Mascot Is it good or bad
luck to have strange
or HoodOo, dog attach himself to
you? Hurrying up
Which? Cedar street, Monday
morning, l became con-
sciOus of dog walking close beside
me. Afraid of anything that is even
doggy, L gave frightened feminine
"Scat!" that only caused the beast to
look up at me with the obtuse stare of
a country cousin and press little
nearer. l darted across the street as
if on suddenly recOllected business,
striving to look brave and walk as if
hydrophObia were not at my heels.
in all my Zigzagging stuck closer
he was afraid of everything but me. lie
carried himself with the downtrodden
air of society reporter and in the
pathetic droop Of his eyelids intimated
a conviction that for him the only safe
side in life is suicide, or, in an emer-
gency, the other side Of me; and should
a dog that wanted to fight approach
him with growing challenge, he
would quietly exhibit his belief that
discretion is the better part of valor,
and put me between him and the en-
emy-a state of affairs that soon gave
me such clear visions of the angels de-
termined to seek refuge in a street car.
AS l waited for one on Seventh street
my NANCY pet, pressed close to me,
waited patiently, too, asking me with his
eyes frequently, "What are we going to
do, my dear girl?" He said "we'' with
an inclusion of himself in all my future
that was as diScOuraging as
any matrimonial outlook ever can be.
He eSsayed in a weak, but determined
a truly reportorial fashion-to get on
the car with me, and was only per-
suaded to desist by the kick of boot
worn by Swede on the platform. l
seemed to hear him sigh, and then, with
a degree or two more of the anguish of
patient resignation" in his countenance,
he trotted along beside the car, looking
10 tn hn ruin nd
me to feel like miserable heather, with
the assurance that if were he, and he
were /, he would not treat me thus.
A number of passing vehicles
finally forced him away from the
car, and when l left it l found | had ac-
compliShed my purpose-I had lost him,
though not with a clear conscience.
Perhaps he was hoodoO; still, there is
sense of duty shirked connected with
our separation. | can't help feeling
that some day, if not on earth, in
heaven, shall meet that dog again and
have need Of his services; and when 1
90 to him, he will look at me reproach-
fully, and, turning away, say cOldly;
Il beg your pardon-scat! lnever knew
YOU"
The tr an sit nal
When She WOman-the woman OF
the period, who stands
Will She Will. halfway between her
own and mans spheres,
a hand on both, enjoys advantages her
successor will never ex-
perience when she has finally succeeded
in raising herself quite to mans level.
A business woman cited an instance of
this fact in the presence of EARS one
,,A
due her, and she was anxious, if posi-
Her attorney, who had been her medi-
ator in the affair, at last told her
that it was no use. "Yon can not
get that money without bringing suit
against him-that'S my verdict as gen
tleman of the law and victim of the
old skinflint's repeated exhibitions of
obstinacy." l his young woman never
says die until the last clod falls OH her
hopes, and she announced her inten-
ton to see the knave in person. 81
rather think" said she, THAT if l go
home, put on my best gown, my new
gloves, curl my bang, adjust my win
ming smile, and present myself before
the gentleman with modest appeal for
the money he owes me, I'll get it." And
she did. In half an hour she danced
into her attorneys office. threw her
Sunday hat up to the ceiling, and
flourished check for $1,000 in his face.
The gentleman of the law whistled his
surprise, and reverentially asserted,
verify, it is so. All things are posi-
BILE with God-and women"
**
Oakland Az Persons who live in
the vicinity of Oak
enue Vehi- land avenue, and are
obliged to resort to
Gle of Hope the horse carS-to the
horse car, rather-for
Deferred. means of tranSporta-
ton, have every rea-
son to be pitied if they care to visit their
homes oftener than once a week. The
common experience of all who have Oc-
casion to travel on the Oakland avenue
EAR is to start hopefully, even cheer
fully, up Wabasha street. and to stand at
the corner of Fifth until some three or
four cars going to opposite parts of the
city have rolled inditferently along their
way, when, if the person be woman.
she concludes it is less conspicuous to
walk up Wabasha until a car
1vertakes her. Was ever the trust
in z disposition innate in woman worse
abused. At Seventh street she comes
10 halt again, gaZes expectantly down
Wabasha as far as eye can see, and with
every car that rounds the corner fond
hope dies. She braces herself with her
and when twenty minutes
have elapsed her Supreme effort to look
rs if it is the most natural thing i'll the
world for her to figure on a street cor
ner as the Goddess of Liberty figures