St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-09
SAINT PAUL.
WITH A FREE LANCE.

Somebody wants TO know how the dear
boys who do the will that be all" act behind
the counters of retail eSta ,liSh nentS of the
CITY manage TO be So long on diamonds on
salary of SlO per. The only solution which
occurs Is for Mr. Somebody 10 ask the dear
bows ID amselYeS; lCs beyond The cOmprehen-
sion Of any but the clever tinaneiers
who do it. PERHAPS The gems are family
heirioomS. left to the wearers by defunet
relatives. or perhaps they are presents from
grateful employers. perhaps Ii hundred
things. Anyway the brigade wear the di1-
monds and as TO how they got them-weu
you can't prove ii by US.
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It's wonderful how quickly the average
Corn-fed young man from the farm takes to
the follies and fOihles of city lie. An ill.,
stance NAV he found close AZ hand Of a fair
faced young hero who a compile of years ago
used 70 boast about being able to husk and
crib his fifty bushels day, by
gOl" Now he's changed youth.
lie has an indiSeri=l nate passion
for shop girls. and hangs asout the busiest
streets about T. D. m. every evening for the
purpose, as he expresses it. Of catching on.
In his cornhuSking days he used 10 wear
blue overallS and was happy sans socks,
FANS suSpenoers, and sans the big
head Now he looks supremely
absurd in the gayest af get-ups
diamonds. silk tile and all. He was firmer
and a farmer he should have remNinrd,
being 60 the manner born. As an eleIante ne
is an utter iSuomIniouS failure. but whether
lie viii ever tumble % the truth is question.
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There's a certain girl in this city whose
capacity for arsenic is said u be something
phenomenal II must be admitted thai her
looks DO not indicate intellectual brightness.
yet her friends women for the Stl;emeut that
she is sane. Sane or inSauce. this bespeck-
led searcher after a complexion is in
the habit of taking daily enough ar
senic to kin an ordinary man. She
does it She SAYS. to improve her complexion.
when. by the way, Is the most unnatural in
hue 20 be found in a weeks march. as di-
Yect result OF The praelc. After while
when the funeral starts f,Om tina: little
frame house on the flats there ought 20 be a
placsrd placed on the back end Of the
haarse. with the inscription, The end of Il
fool"
Apr0pos of girls. Farmer Jones Kit isn't a
marker to some of the modern productions
IN the girl line to be found IN II. Paul
There's one young thing Orwell. say TWEEN
ty-two-She is thar. at least VII ,. TO nv GER
tain knowledge, has hal three seventeenth
birthdays in the past year. She is one Of
class which, by the way. is becoming all too
numerous. As to her appearance. she hasn't
a solitary good feature taeiaIly. and
Is, as to form-weil, pasSable. Her
hair is a TANGLED. touSlei mass,
IN the arrangement of which
but little time is spent Her hInds are ill
kept her complexion Is doubtful, she is
faulty from heels TO head, with one point ex-
Cepted-her eyes. These are her weapons,
her whole stock i'll trade. With q glance
from them, aud shake of hat tangled
name, she can bring TO her feet counter JUMP
crs. store clerks and giddy young fish
OF that class who come her way.
For serious attentions from any man she has
10 desne-in fact as >he elegantly remarks.
'it makes her tired She plays the piano in
n way The "Bonl4nger March is generally
part Of her repertoire; she plays it as she
does everything else, execrahIy. She is in
vaTiably the girl who don't have to WORK"
and doesn't work. Her DAYS are speht in an
aimless manner, and her evenings in inane
Airtations with anything in pants coming
her way. Do you know her!
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There's another sort of girl who has come
under ny notice recently. and the style seems
popular. judging from III number of hacks,
bsroucheS and other vehicles which halt at
the door Of the mansion she eX Its by her
presence. There is certain indeflnable
charm about this girl She has "A way
with her as the phrase goes, and a
Hyay that takes. When yOu-provided you are
of the male sex-shaEe hands with her in the
twilight. she VIII murmnr something about
your hands being so soft for q gentleman"
will let her own fragile fingers Hnger over
the goodnight haudshake as though she
hated 70 have you leave. Look out for that
pirl-she's dangerous, and counts her victims
by the score.
s.
OF ali the girls though, the most popular
Is the dear creature who is beautiful and
knows it; who treats ali her beaux with an
indiferenee-s sort of good naturec tolera-
ton not sufficiently marked to prove ground
for offence, yet evident in sufficient degree
10 pique the boys and make them
love her all the harder. Some say she
isn't pretty. this popular young fairy.
Well. perhaps that is true, but she
l. another of the girls that have a way with
them, and way that takes. Just how MANY
hearts have been scared by the never-failing
darts from her big brown eyes is a question
which even she would find it difficult to aH-
swer, but three figures wouldn't I'LL the bill.
Complexion! ON. blonde.