St. Paul daily globe., 1891-04-27
Shall Our American Girl Have
a Dowry as Her Foreign
Cousin.
Mrs. Huntington's 5000 Mas
sage Suit and Her SWIM
ming Pool.
Gossip About People and
Things in Gotham
Town.

oOI III 1OI lIle ilIIlS WOUldll VIII. year
ago, wanted to rise and soar. She is
beginning to see that clubs may become
source of bruises to the tender fem
mime mind and spirit. And she has
found out that constitutions are per-
picking and bothersome unless they
pertain to the welfare of the family.
Bylaws are becoming a WEAKNESS and
parliamentary usageS bad form.
Worn out with the effort to do and be.
and act similar 10 mankind. the little
woman is gradually withdrawing her
self from all organizations. and is be-
taking her ruffied plumage back to the
family circle, wherein is rest, comfort
and recreation. Here she is never out
of order. She can have the floor at any
time, she can order a business meeting
any moment in the day, and her objec-
tions are not apt t. be Overruled. 1t is
here that her points of order are always
well taken. The gavel is in her hands
to WELD as she wills and, more than all.
she is chairman and entire executive
committee on entertainment. new mem
berS and miscellany. Her vote is the
whole organization.
Let the Little woman Taste of Club
Life
If she will. But happy is the one who
can take her bruised, perturbed self
home to masculine arms for the cOnsola-
ton, the petting, the sympathy and the
praise which the bravest of little women
find sweet to their souls.
Mrs. c. 2. Huntington, whose law suit
over a 5000 massage bill attracted so
much attention, is described as an alto
gether beautiful and pleasing woman.
Her lovely neck, over the removal of
whose wrinkles the suit came about, is
firm and white as marble and the face
about it is lofty, dignitied and WOmanly.
BY many, Mrs. Huntington was deemed
a social martyr in that she would per-
nit the publicity of the courts rather
than pay what seemed to her to be a
blackmailer'S price. The bill was dis
puted from principle not from parsi-
mony.
AS an example of Mr.. Huntington's
prodigality towards his wife is told the
following story: Mrs. Huntington is
extremely fond of fresh water swim
ming, bathing and diving. To indulge
her i'll her favOrite water athletics, Mr..
Huntington ordered tank constructed
in the cellar-nicely heated and lighted.
1t was found upon investigation that the
tank must be emptied daily to avoid
dampness in the house above and that
each filling of the tank would cost $50,
making grand total of about $500 per
week, which Mr.. Huntington would owe
for water taxes. But not an instant did
that gentlemen hesitate. Mrs. Hun
tlngton desired tank for bathing pur-
poceS. In the language of the street
money was mot in it." Has not such a
man right to public sympathy when a
bill seems so eXorbitant to his generous
soul that he is willing to refuse to be
imposed upOnY"
While young mans fancy is lightly
turning to thoughts of love. young
wOman'S fancy is turning to thoughts of
an engagement ring.
What shall be the material, what the
style, what the emblem and what the
design of this. the band which is to
mark her betrOthal finger. The heart
shaped designs which were the pride
and the delight of our grandparents
have come in again with all the We
hemence with which the spring season
of '91 is capable. Yet there is certain
design for an engagement ring which is
in delicacy of conception so much above
and beyond the merely ornamental
heart-shaped ring that the latter has
shrunk into insignificance by the side
of it.
The New Design Is This.
A large, perfectly clear, somewhat
fiat diamond is selected, and under
meath it is placed the likeness of the
dearest boy on earth. Around the face.
as it sparkles forth from the depths of
the diamond, is row of tiny emeralds.
The choice of stones to surround the
diamonds is purely arbitrary. Just now
emeralds are chosen because they are
dearer than turquoise, pearls or any
other gems save diamonds themselves.
To quit even with her young man for
this reckless aud lavish expenditure.
and also to carry out the law that regu-
lates the general fitness and equality of
things, the young woman sends the
young man a jeWeled likeness of her
self. And this is the way she does it.
In the end of gold lead pencil she has
a diamond set similar to that in her
ring, and, underneath it, goes her own
fair face. The young man fastens the
pencil upon his watch chain, and both
the twain-the ardent lover and the
maiden fair---are ready for any and all
emergencies, for each bears talisman
that will exercise all evils except those
of la grippe.
England is agitating itself over our
dowry question. Shall or shall not an
American maid be turned over to her
husband with naught but 1.-THE pres
entS," the trOsseau and fve-dOilar bill
for dOwry? Shall she and must she
have a certain sum placed upon her
head ere she be considered eligible for
the matrimonial market?
When the question of money steps in
the old American independence idea of
true love steps ont. and the whole sys-
tenn of marrying and giving in marriage
become unAmericaniZed. To the OrthO-
dOX American mind a moneyed mar
riage is a nice thing, and when the
maiden brings wealth to her husband il
is mighty nice and mighty comforta-
BILE thing for all concerned. But to that
same orthodox American mind the con-
sideration of money fades into nothing
ness when compared with the weightier
one of love.
Unless She Were Possessed
of physical and intellectual sympathy
for the man whom she was about to
marry, our regulation American girl
would feel as if she had been bought for
price or bartered for the dowry which
had been set upon her.
Sooner than place herself voluntarily
into such state of affairs our true-blue
girl would skip off in secret with the
man OF her choice and work her fingers
to the bone to keep the wolf and sheriff
from the door.
But could not true love and dowry
travel together?" asked our English
cousins.
They could-but they seldom do.
Then Cupid selects a love-poisoned
dart; it is not often that both ends are
tipped with gold.
Our English cousins are used to hav-
ing their husbands chosen for them. 1t
is matter of church, of family and of
state; and should the marriage prove an
impecunious one, the aforementioned
trinity of church. family and state are
willing to combine to make the loss
good.
With US it is different. We know that
we are al. born free and equal. and we.
one and all reserve the right to marry