St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-29

apparent that eligible men do like
the villain in the play and turn and flee.
The greatest kindness that one can
do for all other American women when
one is abroad is to try and convince
foreign mankind that there are hun
dreds of lovely women on the other side
who do not have to go out to seek hus-
bands, but who stay at home and refuse
to accept many who are offered, eligible
them to Judge all by the one type, and
until you have seen it you cannot i'm
agine how entirely disgusting is the
woman with an eye like wolf on some
man and determination expressed in
her compressed lips to have her daugh-
ter introduced to him. No wonder the
great dread of the French mother is
that her young daughter may be like
this. for naturally she sees little of the
other type.
The dressmakers' shops are overflow
ing with our own people-the dress
maker, by the by, being used TO deslg-
nate a man, for he is the god of gowns.
1t is said the first ladies' tailor was Sup
pills, who made the beautiful frocks
worn by Nine. Pompadour, but he IS
known always as coutourier; now fin
nine coutouriere more desirable. The
GOODNESS with which these gentlemen of
the needle express themselves as TO
your good and bad points is edi-
flying. Provided, of course, the
disagreeable things are said about
some other woman and not about
YOU. Monsieur the most important
does not hesitate to object to your hav
ing a short sleeve, for he announces
that your bones must be covered; he
also tells you that American women
are very careless OF else they might
keep their figures forever, not having
the tendency of the English women to
very large stomach nor OF a French
woman to an extremely full bust. lie
upbraids the entire nation severely for
not remaining slender eternally, and
you feel, as the special representative.
the only thing for you to do is to 60
home and give a course OF lectures OH
the beauty of slimness.
He insists OH putting short tail to
your frock, and when you say some
thing about walking in it he conciliates
you by politely smurmuring, surely.
madame never walks with such feet"
and you go away feeling that by giving
in to your nasty little vanity about the
number of the shoes you wear you have
got frock that will be of no earthly
use to you except when you 60 to ride
in chaiSeS.
Although this is the end of the nine
teenth century, and travelling around
the world is not difficult, you will yet
find people even In Paris who think an
American is first cousin to red Indian;
who believe that we never get anything
good except when we come here. and
that we live in barbarous state all the
rest of the year; who have an idea
that when we want days rec
Lake city and take tea with the
Mormons, and who think that if we
are as decently hammered as we seem to
be it is because there were some French
men sent over there when the country
was in its early youth. Funny, isn't it?
When you start out with not very much
in your purse and you are bringing
things home to everybody, don't be be-
guiled into doing your shopping here.
You can get the most fascinating of
fans, the daintiest of purses, but for
most everything else you get better
worth for your money in London. This
is little spoonful of experience offered
to the general woman.
L WISH tile American woman Woulu
learn to put on her frocks like the
FrenchwOman.
To walk as we'll as does the English
woman.
To have as good an idea of her hus-
bans financial condition as the French
woman.
To be as good a hostess at dinner
party as an Englishwoman.
TO talk as we'll and yet tell as little as
the Frenchwoman.
To have as ardent a respect for the
powers to be as does the EnglishWoman.
To be as devoted mother as is the
Frenchwoman.
And yet, after all, if had to winter
and summer with anybody-and win
terlng and summering is test OF what
they really are--I should say give me
the American, for she is generous where
the Englishwoman is stmgy, she is i'm
pulsive where the Frenchwoman is cal
culating. She is independent where
the Engiishwoman is servile, and she is
considerate and atfectionate without a
thought of what she will gain from 1t.
Bah,