St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-31

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what do you mean by sadq'' was
asked.
''She looks so delicate-as if she were
not long-liyed," returned that astute
| lady, who has discovered more than any
! one else in New York. For when the
/ tall, graceful. daShing brunette comes
i'll to greet you, the first Impression you
get is Of absolute vitality and glowing
| health
Miss Eames, or Nine Eames-Story, as
! is the fashion to call her at present, is
tall. 1.-the and graceful. She is awfully
| English in manner. and wears one of
] those tremendously smart tea-rusk-
| cOiored top coats, and gives you the
genuine pump-handle shake of the hand
| with the air of native Of Albion.
Her speech is charming, her accent
| again betrayeth the long foreign So
journ, and there is not the remotest
trace of the Maine twang in the mellow
and musical tones of her voice.
As conversationalist she is fasci-
mating, and her observation and opin-
ions on topics dear to woman's heart
are full of interest.
'Do believe that romantic love is
| obsolete?' she repeated. in answer to a
question. "What a curious idea. That
romantic love still exists we must
know. Very many people are made
quite unhappy on account of it.
10 be sure the marriage de con-
venance, as the French call it,
England it reigns absolute. But there
are so many more girls in society than
men. Naturally enough, girls who
have been surrounded from their birth
| by every luxury hesitate when it comes
| to the point of choosing between the
! life of ease and the life of self-sacrifce.
| 1t is simply question of DO love this
man well enough to give up the atmos-
| phere in which | have always breathed
and live in small, unpretentious way%
All. almost always it is the man who is
sacrificed for the luxury. And it seems
to me that so long as women lead the
artificial lite of today, SO long as they
exist for the surface, as one might say,
so long will the marriage de convenience
predominant.
The whirl and swim of butterfly life
| is so furious these days, women who are
| SYbarlteS by nature and environment
cannot give up that luxury which is a
| part of themselves unless absolutely
| dominated by maSterful and romantic
| love. And the fill de steele butterflies
are seldom dominated by these great
! loves. But they exist am sure of
| that" and Nine. Story stole a glance at
a handsome young man who stood with
his back to the open fire, smoking and
, listening with an amused smile to the
conversation.
american women seem so sensitive, /"
Mime. Story went on. 80 receptive, so
responsive. think the stupid Ameri-
can woman is the exception. In fact, I
think sensitiveness and receptivity are
the distinguishing features of the Amer
| lean character. And there is so much
| cleverness and aptnesS everywhere.
I'VE went 10 see La Cigale' the other
! evening. and the three English colonies
! were in our box. Suddenly that exceed
| ingly funny comedian, Mr.. Harrison,
began guylng us numerically. He rat
tied Off the most wonderful cockney
English you could imagine. l think
Miss Russell a wonderfully pretty
! woman, with a wonderfully pretty
voice. But the American women are Sc
pretty and so cosmopolitan, and, as |
! said before, the stupid American woman
is the exception"