St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-12

loves young dream? Is it the winter
cholera, or what has has enfeebled it?
The slim diet it offers st. Valentine this
year is enough to unfit him forever
after for appearance among us. How
is even a saint, who has been used to
roast beef and bourbon, going to stand
it TO be put on bread and water? There
is such falling-Off of fervor in this years
valentines that they bear about as much
resemblance to those of other years as
the first kiss of love to a common, every
day hand clasp. We all know what they
used to be-pretty affairs, showing any
number of CupidS, hearts and inScrip-
tionS like
You Hove and shall forever
You may change but shall never;''
''Sure's the vine grows round the stump,
You re my darling sugar lump"
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But we have become so frigidly
eSthetic and conventional that next
Tuesday young mans first, second or
slXty-SecOnd passion is expected to find
expression in a valentine on which is
an artiStically painted landscape, and
esteem;" or a marine view and MAY
you suppose we are coming to?-the
day when perfectly proper youth will
offer his hand and heart to girl from
the other end of a ten-foot pole, or by
telephone? Heaven Forbid
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Ladies in st. Paul complain of the
way men stare at them as they go along
the streets. Now, if eight out of ten
women are not made 10 be looked ct,
can anybody tell what they were made
for? But let that pass. Allow that
every eye should be considerably cast
down as the fair creatures come in
sight. Agree that of all bad things that
bad men do, to look at a passing woman
is the worst. But-er-how would the
woman know she was being looked at
If she did not look at the men? Why,
she wouldn't know it, of course. And
1t is just as naughty as it can
be, too. Think how you would
feel yourself, my dear, If you
were shy, sensitive man, holding down
some street corner, and a woman with
big, tiirty eyes would persist in fixing
them on you. Dreadful! Don't do it,
my good girls, don't.
Speak of woman's being uncertain,
coy and hard to please, she is not cir
cumStance TO the occasional man in this
respect. 1t is generally believed that
not man living would object to
woman'S arm about his neck-as long as
the arm was not an old wOman's. l
thought so myself till experience taught
me better the other day. 1t was on a
time to see | was being carried further
than L wanted to go. l made frantic
grab at the bell strap, utterly
regardless of man in the way,
and all innOcently and uncOnSciouSly
reached. right around his neck. Ye
gods! You should have seen him jump.
And flush-my, but he flushed. Then
l begged his pardon and he came to
himself. He said 1t really didn't mat
ter. Asif anything but lunatic would
for moment suppose it did! That man
will not be a startling success in this
world. A person who fails to appreciate
his opportunities never is.
49,
A society item not long ago named
Mr.. Blank as cbaperoning a toboggan-
ing party. This was new departure,
to have chaperone of the masculine
gender. But exceptions in this matter
are peculiar to st. Paul. There is
young woman in lower town whoinsis
propriety wherever she goes.
Mrs. Grundy in knee brooches and
blouse-picture her! But the original
and conservative young woman of lower
town doesn't care fig what the picture
is. When young man takes her to the
opera house he provides place for
Johnny. He comes TO escort her to a
party, and Johnny comes, too. He calls
of an evening, and so does johnny. In
a word, Johnny is so hopelessly inevi-
table that it is rumOred one young man
failed to keep his engagement to lead
the girl to the altar, because at the last
moment it occurred to him that he
would be expected to lead Johnny there
also.
In dry goods store the other day, as
one society woman feebly claSped the
hand Of another, she rolled up her eyes
and sighed, Ibid you ever see it so hor-
ribly gay?"
Never, never" replied number two,
with the air of martyr. 'How lovely
it was of God to fix Lent for this time of
year,"
Perfectly lovely" exclaimed num-
Der one, sOulfully, and then each an
nOunced her intention of keeping Lent
faithfully, which means, of course, that
exhausted feminine nature will let itself
loose in wrappers, eat less, sleep more
that it will rest. But before society
gives itself up to the service of the
Lord, it has been doing what it can to
square accounts with the world. Teas,
receptions, dancing parties, tOboggan
parties, have crowded one another the
past week until it has required a great
head-Or a tablet and pencil, to keep
sOciety'S pets from becoming hopelessly
lost i'll a wilderness of engagements.
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