St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-04
Why the Men Want and Must
20 Have Affectionate
Wives.
But the Best WOman's Reaso n
Is Naturally the Best
Of Any.
Are the Americans Good or
Hl-Mannered as a Ma
ton?

for?" And l told him | believed it was
because men thought it was the proper
thing to do, and that although he wasn't
supposed to be particularly proper
animal, man looked out very much more
for the proprieties than does woman.
pWomen are lovely, exceptionally
Low ely. at criticising the lack of thought
displayed by another woman, but,
blessed little idiots! for the sake of
cause or for the sake OF a man, they will
rush ahead ana never mind what the
world says. and it is the man who gen.
orally stops them. He thinks either of
his business or his social position, and
he doesn't propose that either of them
shall be affected by woman.
You see. the day has gone by when
man would do anything for woman;
countries need to be either very young
or very old when this sort of thing hap
pens, but after all L can't help but re-
member thatquestion. "What do women
marry for?"
Some women marry because they
want home Of their own, and these are
my conclusions:
Some women marry because they
haven't the moral courage to remain
single.
Some women marry because they
want little more money in their purses,
and little larger credit at the shops.
Some women marry because they want
to put Mrs" on their visiting cards.
Some women marry because their
mothers want them to.
Some women marry because man
has asked them to and they don't like to
say no.
Some women marry for money
money, and nothing else. These women
get the money and with it great respon-
sibilities they never dreamed of.
Some women marry because they love
wife, his friend ana his helpmate; be-
cause they want to make him feel that
there is one woman in the world whom
he can love and cherish, and from
whom he will receive love and consider
alton in return. Because they want
him to feel that if sorrow comes he has
a sympathizing, loving friend close be-
side him, and that in the day Of joy
there is one who can give him smile for
smile. These are the women worth
marrying. The others are of little
worth and never would be missed if
they suddenly dropped out of the mat
rimOnial bonds.
l want to wish everybody a happy
new yearl l want everybody to get
their hearts desire, and. more than
everything else. for everybody to start
the new year Alright. It's yours-white
and unspotted; you can take the great
blotter of forgetfulneSs and Obliterate
all the WEAKNESSES and sins of the past,
and you can photograph with remem-
brance all its goodness and kindness.
You have got to learn to look at the
world Alright, and to do this success
fully, you and [, my friend, want TO as
sumo. not the green spectacles of dis
content, not those that are too rosy and
make all things seems good, but glasses
made of the finest and clearest pebbles.
and which show to the locker through
them everything as it really Is. There
are times when it seems as if everybody
had on the green glasses that make
envy, hatred, malice and all uncharit-
ableness most prominent, and again,
because life is sunshiny the rose-colored
ones are assumed, and it is difficult to
believe that anybody is unhappy or in
trouble. Now, for 1891 we want
the clear glasses, we want to
see life, people, books. pictures
ana beautiful belongings just as
they are, while we know there is sad
ness, trouble and misery, and seeing
this clearly, we are going, not only to
open our hearts and eyes to it, but our
hands as well. That's what we want
to do for the New. Year. That's what
will make it happy New Year.
Looking out in one way it may be an
nounced that we are at once the most
chivalric and the worst hammered ma
ton in the world. Too much indie
pendence OF constitution has resulted in
too much independence of manner, and
there is very slight inclination to re-
spect either illness or old age. Fash
iOnable women go to the opera, display
their charms or their lack of them, be-
lieve that throat like an elderly chick
ems is made beautiful by an elaborate
necklace, talk through an entire scene,
and then when some man, who feels
that as he paid for it he would like to
hear the music, ventures to hiss at the
chatty contingent, they glare at him
and conclude that he is bore. Now,
that tribe of women deserve to be Kissed
down, and every one of them ought to
go home with their cheeks flaming be-
cause of the great rudeness, and for
the coming year study each day in
every week what real politeneSs is.
We are greatly given to talking about
respecting the rights of the nation. We
haven't the least particle of considera-
ton for the individual. Impoliteness
exists in every class Of society, and is
the one vice upon which the rich and
poor agree to meet together. Our young
girls are in such hurry to have good
time that they forget the Difference due
to older women, our sons are in such
hurry to make money and to be bowling
swells that they never give thought to
the experience of their fathers, whose
advice they don't consider worth hav-
ing, and whom they are inclined to call
'"the old man." Our servants. treated
without any consideration, are i'm
pertinent and ill-mannered, and the
maids lack of politeness is only re-
lection OF her mistress breeding
Looking at things through dark glasses?
No. Think it all over with me, and
you will see, as nation. we are bad
hammered. very bad hammered, and
that we will only reach perfect polite
ness when we, as individuals. think it
due to our self-respect to show polite
ness to each man, woman and child.
What did you get In your Christmas
stocking? Was it one of the pretty harIe-
Quin ones with bells ON its toes, that
made music whenever anything was
dropped in it and seemed to ring a
special chime of its own that meant that
you were thought about? The foreign
custom OF filling the stocking and send
ing it early Christmas morning has OBJ.
tanned more generally this season than
ever before. The clever girl is the one
who fills it full Of all sorts of little traps
that are personal, writes motto to 60
with each one, wraps 1t up in many col
ored tissue paper and lets the recipient
have an hour of fun opening it. Mine
had beautiful quill-of sugar. and
kindly sentence announcing that sweet
words would emanate from it. Then
there was savings box of pasteboard
with small devil in sealing wax sitting
on top OF it, and an announcement APP
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