St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-23
WHAT AUNT POLLY SAYS.
How the Modern Girl Seems to
an Old Woman.

How the Modern Girl Seems to
an Old Woman.
have known great many men for a
great many years, and the one thing
that quite cOnvinceS me of age is the
habit men have fallen into of discussing
women with me quite as if did not be-
long to the sex myself. There is always
personal element and tinge OF the
f1irtatiOuS i'll mans conversation with
woman, unless she Is his sister or too
Old to be dangerous.
Now, the young men l know have a
way these days of saying hard things OF
the modern girl.
'Why, just look at the girls you
know. Aunt Polly" said one OF them to
me the other day. "What silly lot
they are. don't suppose there's sin
gle girl you know who can sew and
cook as girls could when you were
young. They can't talk. either, and
they have such evtravagant ideas that a
fellow can't think of marrying unless
he's a millionaire. They're just pretty
dolls"
Pretty dolls! My dear boy, don't you
know that's been the cry ever since
Adam wooed Eve? Frivolous, tickle,
shy. uoClCoo- WHY, WOMEN are 50 uSeu
to those adjectives that they don't mind
them at all. But are they deserved,
those unkind words? No. / was girl
many years ago-at period.
in fact, when you had not ar
rived on the scene of action,
and say that the girl of today is de-
clded Improvement over the girl of my
day, when she doesn't put on many
airs. In the first place she knows mere
not only of things read in books, but OF
the good and beautiful things of life.
She reads and thinks. She dresses more
Sensibly and lives more hygienicaily.
Cook? My dear boy, there's not girl
you know but knows how to cook dan-
how to serve and to direct her servants
She doesn't do her own cooking and
washing herself, as perhaps your grand
mother did, for she believes in helping
other women along by giving them
work, and she is not going to die young
as women used of overwork.
And she can sew. She may not tell
you so, but she can. and if she can't it's
her mothers fault, not hers. AS for
talking, have you ever tried to talk to
her? Don't you just pay her compli-
ments and flatter her and talk nonsense
l.
were to begin to talk books or science
with you. you'd feel out of place? Give
me of girls, the girl of today. for she IS
reader and thinker. and she feels i'm
heart and brain the beauty, the sacred
ness, the sublimity.o of womanhooG.
Of course. there are exceptions, and
we wont discuss the vulgar girl who
wants to be man in petticoats. With
all her faults, the girl of today is a
match for the modern man. She can't
sew, you say. Can you saw wood?
She can't cook, you say. Can you put
up stove and lay carpet?
She can't talk. you say. Can't you
see that fashions, as subject of CONVEX
sation, are as interesting as sports?
She is silly, you say. Can't you see
that you have made her so?
She is eXtravagant, you say. Can't
you see that your carriages and flowers
have fostered in her fault that you in
dulge in yourself. with your Is cent
cigars and silk underwear?
She doesn't make good wife, you
say. My dear boy, you haven't tried to
make her. Go to her simply and tell
her you love her. and you will find that,
after all, she is what woman ought to
be, and asks no happier future than the
one the love Of an honest man will
bring. AUNT Polly.