St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-21
REMARKS ON GIRLS.
They Are Always Certain to
Give Us Plenty to Talk
About.
Even in Their FooliShneSseS
They Are Boons to
Mankind.
The American and the En-
glish Girl Compared and
Contrasted.
What the, Girl Is Wearing
Just Now in New
York.

New YORK, Aug. Isl am an OBJ
Server of Girls. You'll observe that l
put capital G, and that is because l
think that they merit it. They are such
a valuable subject 10 the artist and lit
erateur. They give, US so much to talk
about. Then there is such variety OF
them. think. that even their foolish
nPsSeS and their indiscretlonS and their
boldueSSeS are Blooms to mankind, be-
cause it drives people to complain and
object and moraliZe with an energy that
they couldn't get up on any other sub
Ject. And the wave of complaint and
objection which arises every now and
then on that modern subject ''Girl' is
very amusing, indeed. and more SO Iof
this reason: They Will always go on
flirting and clipping and eating too
much ice cream and wearing their cor
sets too tight. although columns and
columns Of newspapers and magazines
are devoting the Soundest of advice to
the distinct Improvement OF
THE Summer Girl''
md every other kind of girl.
The American girl is a much pub
lished creature, and no one is a bit sur
prised when she wears divided skirts,
smokes cigars. or reads Homer. She is
supposed to absorb any quantity of male
attention and to have the greatest diff
Guilty in being true to one man, after her
young life since the age of twelve has
been succession of engagements.
Well, personally, l don't see that she is
very much more so than other girls.
Now, l take the middle-class American
girl there are classes in this
Int al
you know it, you clever cosmo-
politan nation of bright, tall. talking
humbugs) and | compare her to the
English middle-class girl. Probably
they both earn their own living. and
they are both rather deficient in educa-
ton. but know great deal from prac-
teal experience, of other matters. that
girls of higher class learn from books.
notice that they are both intelligent,
Or fairly so, but not bit intellectual.
Of course their minds can never be de-
reloped. but for their sort of life fully
developed mind is not always bless
ing. So far they are much alike.
They have a little machine for their
sort of thinking, memory which serves
their purpose, and prompts them to
meet Jack or Henry at the time he
ordered, and sufficient tact never to be
pn hand before that time. They both
have liking for male society, only one
calls her lover her ''feller" ana the
Dther calls him her ''yOung man." One
Bays, ''For the lands sake" III moment
of excitement, and the other says, MY
Eawd," and ''Oh. my LOrd!' but they
both mean ,out the same thing.
The Educated and Refined Girl
has the same feelings and instincts, but
She KNOWS thing or two more than her
humber sisters. She knows there is no
particular attraction about immOderate
laughter, and her taste has been so cul-
tivated that tin belts and pins have no
attraction for her.
She knows that the attention of
chance acquaintances is not always the
result of admiration. But she is mold
ed to circumstances, and she Is just as
silly i'll her way, and all the advice in
the world won't alter her.
just now the girl is wearing Rus
sian blouse, made in all sorts of mater
ials, but chiefly in white serge, with the
. fastening running down the left side.
The belt is generally pointed, and the
sleeves are of quite abnormal proper
tons, gathered into deep cuff.
The fashion of setting large bow of
Silk Oh the bust of the gown is Paris
ian one, but not very becoming. Red
fern has made one or two like it.