St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-19
SIDE SHOTS.

One OF the most admirable ideas to be de-
veloped in connection with the women's part
In the worlds fair is the scholarship. just
why the term scholarship is used does not
appear, for it is really very inaccurate. A
worlds fair scholarship will enable its for.
tunate possessor, free of personal expense,
to go to Chicago, and remain week Chap
erones and guides are provided for the stay,
and admission to the fair is included It. p-
pears that these scholarships are to be bought
by various women's societies, and bestowed
on whomsoever they choose. The idea is an
excellent one, and it is TO be hoped it will not
fail of execution
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But the women--bless their hearts-are not
always practical. The women connected
with the fair are continuously in receipt OF
the widest and strangest of suggestions.
Even those in high places are not free from
well. misplaced enthusiasm. to put ii
mildly. That clever st. Paul woman WHO
advocated the wholesale distribution to fe-
male wage-earners of circulars urging them
to begin saving up money to pay their way to
the fair undoubtedly meant WELL but was
dangerously near being absurd.
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The woman at home has, as rule. absd
lutely no idea of how the world goes with
the woman who works. Occasionally my
lady interests herself benevoeDtly in work.
ing girls home, or club for the intellectual
improvement of the young working woman.
Frequently both schemes fail pitiably. In
the case of the home, the girl. being wlllin G
and able to pay for what she receives dis
tinctly reSents patronage, and objects to be-
ing considered au object for charity OF re-
form.
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As to the clubs, complaint goes up con
stantly that the working girl does not care
for intellectual improvement. That is very
frequently the case. Things temporal are OF
vastly more importance to most of us than
things spiritual. The welfare of his soul is
of slight importance to a man who is much
in doubt as to where to-morrow's beefsteak
is coming from. The average working girl,
like the average working man, wants TO spend
her leisure hours in recreation. She does
not appreciate Beethoven, nor does she yearn
for Browning. She likes Throw Him Down,
McCloskey" and the Fireside Companion.
She wants to go to dance with heI gen
tleman- friend" There are ways to make the
world better for the working girl, and WAYS
to make the working girl better for the world,
but clubs for culture are mistake, for the
most part. Innocent. healthful and enter
tanning recreation is what the young woman
wants. and it is far more important to her
than books she does not care for, and lect-
ures that bore her to death "a
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1t seems to me that the one branch of
English education which is being badly neg
Iected is spelling. Time was when every
well-regulated school had its frequent spell
ing match, and sometimes all the town
turned to the spelling school, and wrestled
with Webster by the hour. To a man of the
genius of ChauceI, it is allowed to spell as he
pleases, but the plain, four-button cutaway
man of today must represS all his orthOgraph-
zeal originality, or be looked down on.
Young men and women flock to business
colleges. learn to write shorthand and play
the typewriter, and cast themselves upon an
unprotected world, to spell fearfully and
wonderfully, and puncMate in a fashion that
causes such profanity as our army in Elan
ders never dreamed of. 1t is thought that
even a good many newspaper writers of
the town are lame when it comes to deciding
on 'by'' or 'bye," or remembering whether
it's one l or two, and the rumor that the
press club is to give a spelling school is
thing Of interest. 1t will be edifying to see
the poiysyllables of Webster's unabridged
uo pdtIe VIII TIC hHlsuls VI tue raper.
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Apparently the most attractive thing in
town these cold days is window on Seventh
street, where, among coats and walstcoats
and trousers labeled with gaudy red signs. q
large frame containing photographs of the
press club is displayed. A crowd surrounds
it all the time, and the remarks it elicits,~
while not intended disqualification. are fire.
gueutly to the point, and notentirely fatter-
ing now and then