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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
THE AMERICAN GIRL.

In the current number of the North
American Review is an article by Nine.
ADAM on the American girl. The
Frenchwoman's pen sketch of the
American maiden will scarcely be recog-
nized on this side of the water. 1t may
be, and perhaps is, faithful portrait
ure of the American girl as she appears
abroad, of the young heiress who goes
to foreign countries to exchange her
wealth for title; but it is in no sense
correct picture of the American girl
as she appears on her native heath.
Nine. ADAM confesses that she has
never seen the American girl in her
own home, but that her acquaintance
with her has been confined to her meet
ings with her in French society. Even
in that unfavorable light she impresses
her as being rather an extraordinary
specimen of womanhood. She finds her
to be cultured, self-poSsessed, captivat-
ing in manner and speech, but not so
modest as the average French girl. She
says that the American girl is not flirt
before marriage, but for the first three
or four years after marriage she is a
regular heart smasher.
That may be the American girl in
Paris, but it is not the American girl in
America. II Nine. ADAM wants to see
the American girl as she really is, let
her visit her in her home. The typical
American girl is not a fortune-hunter,
nor a title-Seeker. She does not go
abroad to make a vulgar display of
wealth. She is home somebody, who
loves her home and good name above
all earthly treasures. She is good.
square girl, who is not ashamed to
work for her living. She is as indie
pendent as Swapping bug, and wouldn't
give the honest love of an American
boy for all the flattery that could be be-
slowed upon her by Europe's nobility.
She scorns the tom-foolery of European
society. The American girl never
f1irts, whether single or married. She
holds her wOmanhood above price, and
her virtue to be of more account than
the diamond fields of South Africa. In
genuine womanly worth she is always
above par And when Nine. ADAM
comes over to see the American girl as
she is, she Will find her at home, helping
her mother in household duties, in case
she is still single: and if she is married,
she will find her to be the most loving
and loyal little wife that ever blessed a
mans home.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
WHAT THE MATTER is.

In one of the most popular plays o
prominent character makes the frequent
inquiry, .'How's your liver?" Not long
since man at Richmond put pistol to
his head as the hour was about to strike
for his second matrimonial adventure.
He left an estate valued at 500, 900, and
the woman was, in all respects, desir-
able match. His eccentric course was
attributed to disordered liver; at
least, this was the most plausible of all
the causes conjectured. There is a gen.
tleman in a small Illinois city who is
quite comfortably environed with all
that makes life enjoyable, and he often
fills pulpit quite ably. but he has sea-
sons of disordered liver, when he goes
about abusing everybody and every
thing. His friends avoid him, and ex-
cuse his intolerable Miniature because
his liver is out of gear badly. There is
philosophy in the inquiry as to the liver.
Persons who see only the dark side of
things, and think they are specially mis-
cradle, might properly be Intercepted
as to the use of liver pads.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
without seeing evidences of parental
neglect.
THE NEW STREET CARS.

This city is to havein operation in
short time, if there is no spinal weak
TESS in official quarters, a pretty extern
Sive system of electric street car lines.
1t is not proposed to doubt that all obi
cations will be redeemed by the COM
panies who are granted privileges that
will become exceedingly valuable to the
possessors. Tie immediate point is
suggested by an account of the struct-
ure of the cars used by an electric line
five and half miles in length just
opened in Denver. That is live, en-
terprising, handsome city, suggestive
of st. Paul in some of Its aspects, but
much smaller. The cars used on this
line are thirty-eight feet in length, rest
ing upon two trucks of four wheels
each. The interior of the cars is fin
ished in style designed to be attractive
and enjoyable to the greatest extent
within reasonable compass. They are
modelled after the Pullman coaches and
hardly inferior in finish. There are three
compartments to each car, those at
the ends containing six seats, all facing
the front of the car. The middle divis
ion has two luxurious seats running
lengthwise, and can be made separate
entirely from the other two apartments.
1t is specially designed for private par
ties going to rural resorts. ALL the cars
have electric bells, with a button at each
seat, and incandescent lights. 1t is not
assumed that the Denver cars have
monopoliZed the devices for that sort of
transit. The st. Paul electric system
will have more than one line as long as
the Denver, and it will be found profit
able to make the cars as pleasant as pos
sible. This is particularly the case with
the line to connect the twins. This can
take vast proportion of the traffic be-
tween the cities if, in addition to speed
and reliability, the cars are made pleas
ant and comfortable. The travel to go
that way will be determined mainly by
the conveniences afforded. Then st.
Paul will not be contented when any
city has ability to make unfav0rable
comparisons with this city in its street
cOnYeyanceS
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
A GOLDEN WEDDING.

There was golden wedding in Con-
necticut the other day which had sig
nificance unusual to such occasions. 1t
was the celebration of the fiftieth we'd
ding anniversary of a couple of deaf
mutes. For full half-century man
and wife had plodded. along hand in
hand. without ever having exchanged
word. Neither had ever heard the
sound of the others voice. But, not
withstanding this lack of sociability in
their home circle, their half a century
of welded life had many compensating
advantages. 1t was the one home in all
the Nutmeg state in which there had
never been familyquarrel, and where
a bit of gossip about the nelghbors had
never been set in motion. The wife
was blessed above other wives in that
she had never been told she couldn't
cook pastry as well as his mother. Her
ears had been spared many growing
complaint about the steak being over
done Or the bouillon being too thin. For
fifty years she had gone in and
out of her home without having
the charge laid at her door by the
man who had sworn to protect her
that she neglected to sew on the but
tons. She had never been asked by her
liege lord to go to the cellar for coal, or
to kindie the fire while he was taking
his morning nap; and as for the hus-
band, this half century of married life
had been equally placid. His ears had
not been disturbed by the shrill scream
of woman at midnight, when the Their
mometer was registering 20 deg below.
commanding him to turn out on the cold
oilcloth in his bare feet to hunt for the
paregorIc OF soothing syrup bottle. In
all his life he had never been upbraided
by the partner of his bosom for failing
to deliver message or for neglecting to
mail letter. He had never been
scolded for bringing company home to
dinner on wash days. Theirs was a
home of quiet contentment and of silent
admiration, where two loving hearts
beat as one without the sound of a dis
corGant note. Such marriage expert
ences deserve to be called golden. If
all married lives were like theirs, Toll
SToI would have no material for his
philosophy.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
TALK ABOUT RAILROADS.
Our Street Car The President of the
Minneapolis Stree t
King. Railway company and

Our Street Car The President of the
Minneapolis Sire t
King. Railway company and
OF the American Street
Railway association is man who has
great faith in electricity as motive
power and proves his faith by his
works, says the New York Electric
Power Magazine. The system of street
railroads in Minneapolis which he rep
resents has changed its entire equip
ment from horses to electric power,
after thoroughly testing and diSearding
the cable.
He was born on Feb. q, 1913, in Logan
county, Illinois. His boyhood days
were spent in Schuyler county. near
Nashville, in the same state. where he
studied law, and was admitted to the
Illinois bar in May, 1868. In July of
the same year he moved to Minneapolis,
where he practiced law until he was
elected vice president of the Mime
apoiis Street Railway company, in
1873. At that time the Mime
apolis Street Railway company was
new enterprise, but Mr.. Lowry, with
admirable foresight, saw at once how
the property might be developed and
started in immediately to bring it up to
the highest possible standard of excel
lence. About three years later Mr..
Lowry bought a controlling interest in
the road, was elected its president. and
has occupied that important position
ever since. He is also president of the
500 road (steam), and is majority
stakeholder in the street railways of
the Twin Cities.
Although a heavy capitalist, Mr..
Lowry is immensely popular in both
cities. in one of which iMinneapolis) he
owns magnificent farm Of over 1000
acres in extent.
At the eighth annual meeting of the
American Street Railway association,
held in Minneapolis last October, he was
elected president of the association for
the ensuing year, serving in that posi-
ton with ability.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
CHILD Suicide.

A cablegram from Berlin appeared in
the newspapers few days ago, announ-
cling that since the 1st of January sixty
two children. forty-six boys and sixteen
girls, had committed suicide in that city.
An exchange calls attention to the fact
that this was a greater number of chill
dren than were executed under the de-
cree of HERoD, which left RACHEL
weeping for her children and refusing
to be comforted.
There is something manifestly wrong
with the conditions of life when suicides
like these occur. Or possibly it may be
owing to some radical defect in the
modern system of education. But, what
ever the cause, the condition is abnor-
NAL. We very well understand the
causes of suicide among adults.
Poverty, distress, failure and disap-
pointments drive men and women to
self-destruction; and even among them
the accepted theory is that insanity
must be the precursor of suicide. The
mind must receive some shock capable
OF dethroning reason before person
can seriously contemplate self-destruc-
ton.
But what is the explanation of child
suicide? 1t appears incredible that in
a Christian city, nineteen hundred years
after Christ, there should occur within
few months siXty-two suicides among
children. But there are the statistics
to show for it. Why should any little
child have cause to take up JOBS
lamentation and say LET the day per-
S,I1
children know of the bitterness of life,
of its disappointments, its struggles and
defeatsP Why should hope die in the
heart of a child? 1t didn't use to be so,
nor did God intend it to be SO. If there
is any place where hope should forever
rise on eXultant wing 1t is in the breast
of child. whose being has not been
overshadowed by the real things of this
life
Might it not be possible that the root
of our progressive civilization is striking
down into soil from which poison is
being extracted ? This is the only
rational explanation we can offer.
Everywhere around us we see the effects
of the growing materialiSm of the times,
and it is possible to work its way down
ward until it finds entrance into the
heart of little child. There is hard.
ness of feeling. and the crushing out of
sentiment in business and in politics.
1T has contaminated the religious faith
of this generation. Modern social laws
have created a narrowness of sympathy
in the family circle. Everywhere the
ideals of life are being surrendered to the
spirit of gross ana impure materialism
1t is no surprise, then, that the world OF
little children should have lost its equi-
1ibrium. In our struggle for temporal
success under the materiaiistic infiu
ences of the age we may have sacrificed
the happiness of those who are nearest
to us. The voice of childhood has beer
silenced, and the little ones have beer
permitted to grow old before their time
AS some one expresses it, 1.-The chill
dren's teeth are set on edge because the
parents have eaten sour grapes"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
STREET EDUCATION.

The dominion and responsibilities of
the parent in the domestic confines are
so much in the fitness of things that the
state has usually, in civilized lands.
been reluctant to take any part in the
matter. But there Is growing dispo.
sltion to supplement- or supplant the
work of incompetent parents in regu-
lating the outward appearance of chill
dren. In New York state, under a law
in force the past month, all persons
under sixteen years are subject to arrest
and imprisonment if seen smoking
cigarettes. Some towns and cities pro-
vide for the arrest of persons of either
sex under fifteen years of age if found
on the streets after 9 or 10 O'clock at
night without some adult Perhaps
parents who allow their young children
to be out OH tie street much at night
should be punished. The state has in
terest in the matter, as the criminal
classes are mainly recruited from the
parties who have mad their education
Oh the streets in cities at night. One
can go about town little at late hours
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12

Paul for parts not now remembered by
any of PauPs good-enougf companions.
But when this mercenary subject re-
turned to the world as being endowed
with an especial gift of resource.
less faculties for the analvzing
of mans mentality, it was then
that the former companions Of
this phenomenal Paul Alexander John
stone learned with awe and misgivings
of the wonderfuffeats this occult-mind-
ed young man accredited to himself. Ii
cate keenness of perception in his ha-
Bitual method of applying to his own
anatomy the broad surface. both sides
Iisnd edges of other boys towels, then
any other freckled boy with nerve and
Business instinct can become the mind
reader that Paul Alexander tombstone
! now is. PER WAN.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE.
Mrs. Langtry is resting in Paris.

Mrs. Langtry is resting in Paris.
Sam Jones will lecture in Florida this
winter.
Queen Victoria is passionately fond Of
babies.
Gladstone says that an Irish eviction
is equivalent to a death sentence.
Ex-Gov. Alger is negotiating for the
purchase of 1900, 900 worth of timber.
John Burns, the rising English labor
leader, is a man of striking individual
lty. He is candidate for parliament.
Prizefghter Dempsey says that the
ring affords the best and the most de-
llghtful exercise of any athletic sport
The car of Russia is the largest of
all living landed prOprietors, owning an
estate which is nearly equal in area to
the whole of France.
Secretary Blaine may visit Atlanta
and other Southern points. The people
there are anxious to hear him on The
reciprocity question.
Says Mr. Stanley: 'iAssuredly l shall
not soon return to Africa. First of all,
have to give lectures in the United
States. Then | am entitled TO a little
rest"
The leading social event in London
the coming year is the proposed mar
riage of Princess Maud, Youngest
daughter of the Prince of Wales, TO
Ferdinand Gle Rothschild.
Little Alphonso Nil, of Spain. is
four and half years old. He has a
prodlgious appetite, and it is necessary
TO watch him carefully at table to pre-
vent him from gormandiZing. He is put
to bed promptly at s every night, and is
walked up at for his cold bath, which
he takes as readily as if he were hardy
young English boy.
Mlchigan's newest millionaire, James
M. Ashley, started out twelve years ago
| without dollar, and in that time has
built and equipped 400 miles of railroad,
and, without freezing out stakeholder
or cheating anyone out of penny, now
controls it,and is worth 81, 600, 600 if he's
| worth nickel. How did he do it? He
| cannot speak without suffering.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
Some Early A st. Paul party
noted in the telegraph
Cranks. ic dispatches the past

Cranks. ic dispatches the past
9 week all account of the
death in one of the new Pacific slope
states of John French, and remarked
that the first money in any considerable
volume he ever acquired was in the
employment of French. 1t was not
long after Gen. W. Fl. Harrison was
elected president. French was pub
fishing at the capital of New Hamp-
shire one of the. earliest and most rad
ical Abolition papers in the country.
The st. Paul party was then in the most
elementary stage OF learning, but had
become familiar with printing office,
ana French hired him to set type for
this paper at a shilling per 1000 ems,
and when the first payment of so cents
for 5000 ems came in he thought of
starting newspaper himself. His
juvenile memories, however, are that
he would not run an Abolition paper.
as everybody seemed to be down on
them, the editor was often insulted, and
the boys pointed him out as a curiosity,
and if they occasionally threw eggs or
snowballs in his direction there
was no very serious retribution
put on their track either by
the police or parental authorities.
These odd people were numerous
enough to sustain this paper for years
and to maintain some sort of organiza-
ton. They have been sometimes re-
ferred to as an essential antecedent of
the political movement that eventuated
in the destruction of slavery. But as
the st. Paul man recalls them, they
would even in these times be regarded
as "a peculiar people" They had a
sort of religion mixed up with their po-
litical phase. Their liberty would be
termed license. Free speech meant the
right to assert their opinions at ali
times. The young artist in letters was
more than once excited at the appear
ance in the largest church in the town.
at which the future President Pierce
was an attendant. of these disciples of
freedom asserting their right to speak
in meeting" usually in reply to the
sermons of the preacher. The usual
conclusion was that few stalwart men
dragged them out, talthOugh they made
no resistance. They wanted to be
martyrs. but were treated as fanatics,
and would now pass as cranks. They
perhaps fill some crevices in natures
schemes
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
WHY ROSY LIPS WE'RE MADE.

AS Bessie, blushing, raised her head,
The handsome fellow archly said,
Stroking his chin,
Pray tell why rosy lips were made?
Said she-They are the sweet blockade
Against young lovers who invade
The heart within.
If the sweet blockade should run
Might not hold the heart I'd won
By such adventure?
Not every one can take who tries
But should you take me by surprise
And close the lips, I'd still have ewes
Would speak in censurel
Could eyes like those be so unkind?
Then close them up, for Love Is Dlind!"
Nay, that's not true sir!
Can Love lie blind, L d like 10 know?
And shoot the unerring arrow SO?
He sees more in some one, troW,
Than others do, sir.
And why do cheeks get rosy red?
IL tell you why, sweet Bessie said,
With some emotion
There Nature, with consummate art,
Paints every passion of the heart,
That burning secret to impart-
A maids devotion
He stole one kiss! Then two three, four!
And would gladly have stolen more
Without repenting.
You've taken my heart it must be true
Those rosy lips were made for you!
You'd better take the residue
While I'm consuming
Fred Emerson Brooks in New York Worlo
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
THE STORY OF DAY.

Judge Wilson speaks at Breckenridge
An Ohio woman, crazed by religion, tries to
Kill her child.
Justice Miller of theUnited States supreme
court is dying.
Train robbers are foiled by cute messen-
ger in Missouri.
The woman suffrage movement in South
Dakota gets its death blow.
Carlos, Portugal's youthful ruler, may be
busted from his unstable throne.
Rev. Boutwell,, the pioneer missionary in
HE Northwest, dies near Saltwater.
Some of Uncle Sans npostmastersiare with
holding Alliance mail in Minnesota.
The supreme court of Michigan decides
that colored people are citizens and cannot
be disc riminated against.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
Lack of Culture.

Philadelphia Times.
What is it a sign of when J Jour lip
itches?" she asked, coming a trife
closer.
He stared at her blankly and never
moved.
II don't know, Pm sure"
With her clear cut Boston intellect
she saw that his education had been
neglected, and after that night they
were strangers,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
a CHANCE FOR wonfEN.

Not much is heard about it, but there
is voting to be done this month and
next that would seem to be of very con-
siderable interest to the good ladies'
who would advance their recognition IN
public, especially those of the Methodist
persuasion. The last general confer
ence submitted to the laity of the
churches the question as to the adnis-
sion of women to seats in. the highest
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
RAPID MARRIAGES.

Whatever are the facilities for divorce
in Chicago OF any of the new states. it is
usually much easier to get married than
to get out of the state, provided there is
not much captiousness as to the choice
of partner. There have been several
cases reported of late where the record
was rivaled. if not broken. In Chicago
a couple were iove-struck at their intro
duction OH cable car, aud in half an
hour were married. This was over
week ago, and it is not known that they
have yet applied for Il divorce. About
the same time. in Pennsylvania. bach
elor postmaster and a young woman
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12

concluded to marry. and in ten minutes
were aboard fast express train. A
dispatch was sent by telegraph to a
preacher to meet them at one of the first
stations. The train stopped just one
minute, and in that time they were mar
ried. A good deal of expense and trou-
BILE is saved by these sudden combina-
tions, but unless one expects to be mar
ried often, it is believed the more grad
ual, common method leads to more sat-
isfactory results.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
WILHELM WURST'S FELOSoFY

Misfortune in life is yoost like dot
klothes wringer. 1t skevease you like
der defil sometime, but you nearly
times always kun oud kleener und bes-
ser fer life'S wear.
When der heart is so filled of sorrow
dat de tongue not can't spheak it, den
de eyes pump it out on your cheek.
-.
Humor is dot sauce on der pudding of
life-mitout it der life is poorly dry, and
either by hisself is vary ingidestable to
der German und der American.
+ If every reghen drops vahs a mes
Z sage frem heaven. ais der poet onced
. SADIE. den dem angels must be der light
/ ening Operators.
Der poet SADIE: I'm der brite LEXICON
of yoitt, dere is no soch verd ais fail"
Das is richtig. Maste of der verbs of
der youth now-a-times is: ''Breack
away" '.Kuni Off dot gate" Here KEN
Metiinnity,' dot little Annie Looney,"
"Vhere dit you cabbage dot cap ind
der wind blew tro0 dot vhitskers."
und udder expressions what schmeH
bad.