St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-15
GAY LENTEN GIRLS.
Fads That Keep the Darlings
Awake in This Quiet
Season.
Order Of the Day as Outlined
by One Of Gotham's
Bellies.
How 1t Is Possible to Keep
a Man on Tenter
Hooks.
A Girl Must Flipt or Get Out
Of Practice Very
Soon.
New York Letter.

Special New York Letter
Something really had to be done to
enliven the mOnotony of the Lenten
season. The girls made up their minds
to that year ago. when forty consecu-
tive mornings found them plodding to
early prayers, forty consecutive after
moons saw them seated at Lenten lee
lures for women only, and forty con-
secutive evenings beheld them first at
vespers and then at even prayer. For
forty days and forty nights never so
much of sweet as a chocolate drop
passed their lips, Dor was gay gown
upon their backs. nor did even little
skip escape their feet.
This year they declared that they
would reform. They had committed the
grievOus sin of being righteous over
much, they all knew. And they agreed
that such things must not be repeated.
So this is the Lenten proper order for
the day:
Morning as heretofore, a
little shopping eXpeditiOn-nO money
must be spent, however, and not more
than ten minutes can be spent in riot
OuSly gazing in any single window
Afternoon-A Browning or an Arnold
or Shakespeare reading i'll hall or par
lor with single glass of S0da-not ice
cream soda, of cOurSe-afterwardS yes
pers on the way home. A good dinner
and dessert as usual. Evenlng-A
quiet chat with Jack in the back parlor,
or in the small, quietly furnished recep-
ton room. Some little piece of fancy
work must be always in hand. This bit
of industry should, preferably, take the
form of mite box with an embrOid-
cred cover for the stray bits of coin that
are to form the Easter offering.
a Few Very Worldly Young Women
indulge in quiet little fancy dress par
ties, such as the young Princesses of
Wales improvise for an evenings enter
Iainment. Only solo dancing is done at
these, for it is deemed too earthly and
fleshly a thing to permit masculine
arm to encircle the waist. All kinds and
conditions of pretty costumes are de-
viSed for the evenings frolic. An allie
gOrical representation is a favOrite form
of entertainment. Or a certain we'll
known fable, such as ''DickWhittington
and His Cat Simple Simon and the
Pieman," or the Mother Goose rhymes,
| may be carried out in appropriate COS
tune.
Quite frequently one finds among the
lasses one who can dance clevery and
who is willing to trip lightly for the
benefit of the assembled group. Span
ish fandaugos, Scottish reels and Irish
jigs are sure to be favorites with every
one.
Another Lenten diversion, less harm
less than the simple little dress party,
is the playing with human hearts, which
amusement the young women of the
season think is specially adapted TO the
Guietness and monotOny of the time.
"Why do you fiirt so desperately with
young Mr.. Tenderheart?' was asked OF
| demure little miss with hair snugly
| banded about her head and the quietest
| of churchly greyS upon her svelte little
| figure.
81 am not flirting" said she, mot
really flirting, but [ have to say pretty
things to some one, or | shall get out OF
practice. | do not mean to tease him,
| but be worries one so that [ am obliged
to-sOmetimes. And, then. he is so UNI
| reasonable. For instance, he leased me
| last night into confession that L loved
| him, and to-day. what does the stupid
| fellow do but come here with ring. a
great double-header, a diamond aud a
| moonstone. | had forgotten all about
| last evening-and now he says / am
cruel. Isn't he unreaSOnable?'
Let all the men take lessons from this
little instance, and believe nothing that
they hear from the lips of the fair
young devotees and but a grain of what
they say in the shape of occurrences in
/ the matter of dress and manners. Let
| them appreciate the fact that it is Lent,
and that the girls are saying pretty
things merely as safety-valve for the
| eXuberance of the efferveScence that
must find vent somewhere and some
how.
There Is No limit to Mime. PATHS
expenditures upon her castle home at