St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-30
VARIETIES IN GIRLS,
About the Girl Who Eats and
the Young Maiden Who
Talks.
A Good Appetite Is a Pleasant
Thing to Contemplate
in Girls.
Beauty Is All Right but Not
Always Entertain
ing.
The Good Talker Is the Girl
You Should Take
Out.

ably no man in New York at the present
time who has not passed through the
pleasant and expensive experience of
| taking lady out to dinner. She may
be his typewriter Out more probably
she is some other mans, as too much
familiarity breedeth contempt"), or a
swell shop girl, or she may be an act
ress who he is temporarily smltten with,
or she may be lady whom he is taking
about as his affianced wife, with moth
Ing sub rosa about it, or she may be one
of the parties in a;Platonic friendship of
which the man is the other party.
As it is well known that 'stolen kisses
taste the sweetest" it is quite unneces-
sary to say that dining out with the girl
whom you would not introduce at home
is probably more pleasurable than with
the girl whom your family has known
from infancy.
If you are practical nature and bit
of pnlIanthrOpist you will prefer to
take out a gil who does not care to dis
| guiSe the fact that she has an appetite,
a girl who does not fare sumptuouSly
every day. You will prefer the girl whose
| appetite is occasionally sharpened by
y
| generosity IS not being wasted. But
this will not be enough for you; a good
| appetite is pleasant thing to conte NJ
| plate. but it is not enough to spend a
! whole evening with. There never was
a mani am not including the saints
! who took girls out to dinner for moth
ing. Sometimes it is for love they do it,
sometimes it is for show they do it,
sometimes for amusement, sometimes it
is part OF Il scheme.
To those who are in love the dinner
is small and insignificant detail; as
long as they are near enough to speak
| low and look into each others eyes, the
menu is merely printed card contain
| ing little of interest to them, but it is
not of these that | write.
When it is mere matter of show it is
a more difficult thing to understand.
But there are man, strange things in
life, and one of the StrangeSt is the
man who willingly dimes with hand
sOmely dressed dummy. She sweeps
! into the restaurant. there is rustic of
silk. and soft swish of velvet, watt
of some delicate perfume and the OBJ
sequous waiter bows low, as he pulls
out her chair and Siayishly removes
her wraps. Unwrapped she shows
superb figure and a beautiful face,
and the removal of her gloves
1
| beautifully and with diamonds flashing
constantly. The man who is acting as
cavalier to all this Splendor can not eX-
| Dect it to be entertaining as well as beau
| tiful-at any rate if he does he is diSap-
| pointed. She makes a pretty tolerable
| dinner, and is very Self-pOSSeSSed under
the stareS of every man in the room, but
a shorthand writer taking down their
conversation would have an easy task.
"
ment she Is generally good talker,
| and either a high-spirited girl or
clever married woman. She is some
times amusing because she tries to be,
and because, practically speaking, her
| next dinner depends on it, sometimes
because she can't help it. The last type
is the best company. She is generally
goOd-looking. Mental qualities alone
are seldom satisfying to man, but at
any rate she has to be very, very clever
if she is undeniably ugly.
| once took out tall, fine, dashing
| girl who cleverly assumed the manners
of an ingenue, and with great success
| knew that she was acting. but had to
CONFESS to myself that it was very good
acting. Dining out at expensive res
| taurants with infatuated men could
| have been no experience to her, but she
| kept up the manner of child-like enjov-
Inent through it all.
/ have not mentioned the kind Of girl
who listens, because she is so extremely
rare, and partly because prefer 10 hear
a girl talk to talking myself: so that
don't really know this type, but of
| course TO some men it must he invalu-
able.
When the Platonic pair go out they
generally enjoy themselves; or the one
who is really Platonic does. The re
never was a so-called Platonic pair
where both were free from any warme
feeling than what the mind suggests;
but with pair go out as brother and
sister, they believe as such, only more
so. Their talk is free and unrestrained,
and their opinions are exchanged with
many jokes and p!easantries. There
are cases where girls have been taken
out merely as means of finding things
out. A good dinner, sparkling wines,
music, compliments, flowers and kisses,
have been used as sprat to catch
mackerel On many occasions. A good
dinner is supposed to have its peculiar
influence on men, and no man who has
any tact will dare to suggest to a
lady before dinner that food has
an equal influence on her. But
if the way to mans heart iSthrough
his stomach, the way to a womans
secrets is something the same kind of
| route. MANY precious secret has been
| worked out of weak woman by the
means of a good dinner, few CON pill
ments and a clever, scheming man.
A word about evening gowns before
anything else. They really will be old
fashioned-quite old-fashioned. Red
fern has just now in his salon gown
which any beauty might have worn at
any of the salons of the First Empire.
1t is real, undeniabe empire. Rich
old gold-cOlored velvet is used as sort
of feStoon to drape yet reveal the out
line Of the bust. Thick lace falls from
this very full over the shoulders to form
a berthe, and the shoulders are
covered with yoke of the lacs
over satin. The lace, of the finest
point de rose, just gives glimpses
of the gold-colored satin underneath
The rest of the gown is made of a large
stately patterned satin as full of old
world colors as an old-fashioned country
garden. When the extremely modern
young saleswoman put this gown on so
that | might see the effect. | was sur
prised to see the change which it made
in her appearance. She was transformed
from Miss Somebody into Lady Bet
tina, OF Nine. de Stael. As for the en-
pire cloaks-Well, they are Just az
quaint, but will take more moral cour-
age to wear, as the unknown public out
doors is franker in its stares than the
polite circle in the house. But if a