St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-09


I'm ty against it, |
Il ~ dOn'tbelieve tight
+ lacing has created
" the havoc among
growing girlhood that it is supposed to
have.
The real sin of the present age with
regard to dress is the desire to OverdO
It'll They oYGrdo everything nowadays,
but in the matter of dress they quite
distinguish themselves. Be the girl or
the young woman never so poor, she
will still gown herself according to the
latest fashion and in the latest, the
most expensive texture, whether her
purse Will run to it or not.
This means vice of sort If you
can't afford to stand up in a raiment
that makes your richer friends glorious,
you should make I'D your mind to the
Tact that such Injuries are not for you.
You should take lower seat and confess
yourself beaten. 10 the ordinary mind
such confession is painful. ItbattleS with
it, argues with it, and finally gives way
10 the lust of the eye, and orders the
dainty ParSian gown, with the sure. il
suppressed, knowledge that the where
Withal to pay for it will never be forth
coming. Hence arises
THAT DULL FIEND
called Debt--a tiend that swallows up
not only ones self-respect, but ones
peace of mind. 1t girls would only be-
iieye that they can look as lovely in a
Well-madc cotton as in chef d'Huvrc
of WOrth'S half the heart-burns OF soci-
ETY. would be done away with. But to
establish this belief would be task be-
fore which that OF Sisyphus would sink
into inSigniicance.
Too sternly bent on fashion is the
young woman Of the present day.
Laces, flounces, fripperies of all sorts
occupy the time that might be more adj
yantageously given to study, or even to
those lighter arts that upraisc and ren-
der beautiful the mind. And yet to be
too accurately la mode has its disad-
yantages. A charm in a young girls
dress is the freedom from cOnStraint
that it should SUGGESTIVE embodiment
of all the sweetness and light that
belongs of right to youth and youth
only!
A careless shOestring, in whose tie
see IL wild civilily,
Doth more bowtch me than when art
is too precise in every part.
Thus sang Herrick, sweetest of poets,
over 200 years ago.
Debt is fault Of commission. but, as
we are on the subject, let us look at the
faults of omission, where dress is still
the matter Oh hand.
Some WOmGn--tO0 often young WOm-
en--gO to the other extreme, and while
taking credit to themselves for being
beyond the pale that marks the eXtraVa-
CANT dame, fall into an error not less
deSpicable than the one they condemn.
EXtravagance is one thing, slOvenlinesS
another. No true woman should de-
spise adurnment. What makes her
lovely in the sight OF her fellows should
be dear to her.
ADORNAlENT,
that is, within certain limits. But often
the eve is offended by the clever, the in
tereStng W0man--thc woman whose in
tGllect is far above the averdge-the
woman, in fact, whose mind is so de-
llghtful that enc feels her body should
be akin to it, and yet who so unmerci-
fully neglects the latter that one is con-
PEELED to Shudder at her want OF taste as
one gazGS at her.
TO admire the beautiful is common
instinct implanted in all breasts. TO
desire it is an acquired taste. And
money is not everything where personal
edornment is in question; as have
said before, the young girl-"the young
person" as they call her in England
can, if she has a sense of harmony born
within her, so menage a slender income
that she may present to the passing eye
as fair vision as her sister the million
aire, who moves hither and thither
through the crowd, clad in priceless
silks and Iaces.
Enough of dress; far more impor-
tant fault remains behind.
The question of dress is III measure
trifling when compared with manners.
Here comes the brusque girl, who
thinks honesty" as she designates
rudeness, a real virtue, real virtue.
TO say what you thihk-to live in an
eternal palace of Truth''-is, she
imagines, to be above the average, and
to soar i'll realm from which less viz
tuously-minded people are excluded
This girl, as a rule, forgets that to be
rude is not always to be honest! Better
are the sl0Venly ones of earth than these
last. For though, as Theophrastus has
it, "SloyenlineSs is lazy and beastly
negligence of mans own person,
whereby he becomes SO sOrdid as to be
offensive to those about him." still it is
mot so unforgivable fault as the churl-
fSh determination to square all the cor
ners OF life, and forbid a kindly curve
anywhere.
THE CLEVER GIRL
who poses as social Scion, and aspires
to give wisdom to all men, is Only-if
She but knew it--a social bore. IA word
to the wise is sufficient" and therefore
! would say to all W0uld-be Savantes
that TO place their cleVerness too much
on evidence is fault scarcely to be con-
dOned by the present generation. We
all like TO think ourselves clever, and to
be put down and made to feel small by
q chit of a girl raises wrath irrepressible
in the bOSOmS of most of us.
Of all girliSh types, however, the loud
and noisy one is among the most mex
cuSaDle. The noisy girl makes q room
all her own. She enters it with loud
laugh and leaves it with a scream that
Is meant for merfment, but suggestive
of only discomfort to the unhappy
listeners. She is invariably pursuer
of men. She cultivates the saying of
fast things, and believes herself Singu-
larry successful when she has brought
the blush of shame TO the cheeks of the
very young man who has just launched
himself upon the waters of society aud
Is hardly prepared for naval engage
ments OF this kind. Nobody cares for
her, and generally she winds up her
career by marrying q CuratG of the mild
est kind, who has accepted her proposal
of marriage because he has been afraid
90 say her nay.
There Is, however, something worse
than the last and noisy girl. This is tho
fast, but insidiousiy silent
MARRIED WOMAN
The moral blot! who creeps through
society with dGmure and seemingly