The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-10-03
GMD STIR
they CANNOT ESTERTAIN TEEN.
Are Young Men Outstrlpped In AnowI.
edge BY Their Center Com.
panlong.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
A paper published in that cen
ter OF American culture calle
Boston lays down The proposllioI
that the average young man q
this day aud generation il unabl,
Ia entertain the average vonn,
woman. The word "eniertain" j
mol used IN lis gross material sens,
-oi treating to ice cream or straw
berries, sOda or champagne, The
iheater or a sleigh ride. What il
meant il that the average young
man cannot talk in such a manner
asio touch responsive chords il
the heart Oh brain Of The Opporit.
sex. 1t is alleged that he can talk
only Of himself, or of baseball OF
stocks, or of college experiences
that having dropped all study
when he leaves college and goes
into business his mind has not been
widened and broadened like that
of the girl, who goes on improving
her intellect and "hivIng knowl.
edge with each studIous YEAR
after she has been discharged
-fnishedn from Vassar or from
Wellesley.
This may be true OF the young
man and woman OF Boston. All
things are possible in thai smart
city. All the men there may be
ounces, comparatively, and ali the
women Philosophers. But it is
only halt true OF Chicago or, as far
as can be ascertait.ed, of The rest
of the United States. Here the
young men and maidens meet on
y commAn plane of conversational
common place ideas. The girls as a
rule, are not signing for intellectual
converse on the part Of the mep.
They ask for nothing better than
The light and airy nuthings which
they are in the ha bit Of receiving.
ii Is not customary after the Young
mel have EFF for the women to
meet and resolve that the talk was
not OF that soulful and serious ma.
ture which their spirits yearned
for. 1t may be that when Bottom
girls are visiting II another that
they talk on solid subjects, but
tuchls not the case anywhere el,e.
Chicago girls are no more intellect.
nal or scientific when with one
another than when men are in HE
room-in their conversations.
The truth is that neither Young
or women. as a rule. have
anything higher to talk abnut
when they meet thar the cosby
news and airy nothings of the mo.
ment. Most OF them on leaving
school drop the studies and the
literary pursuits TO which they
themselves for years. They
inter a new world aud sever the
.ie3 which might connect them
With the old one. Therefore when
comes to selecting topics for con
'ersatlon they are necessarily :
lrlven to gossip, or the baseball, or
he society play, or the light :
lawn tennis, the fashions,
md similar easy and inexhaustible !
hemes. The element of thought
. pretty well banished. No one l
alks OF history, for what has been y
earned is being forgotten and
here has been no effort TO keep uu p
nth the progress OF human events. ?
he lives Of great men remind us n
Ow 10 make our lives sublime -
re rarely mentioned. Nobody
nows or cares anything about B
'lsmark, but there is interest in .
ny Gould's or Vanderbllt's new II
acht, or The gold service of some
Their New York millionaire of
atonal politics and issues moth.
ig Is ever heard except during the !
eat and fire OF the closing months ]
r weeks OF a Presidential cam
and then it is limited to
bets OF gloves. OF politl.
economy, Of those sciences 81
hlch tell Of the world and ills
igin aud evolution nothing is 7
yer said. Men and women alike -
and them as stupid topics of
TX.
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