St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-02
DRESS TO PLEASE men
There Is an Abundance OF
Proof That Women Do This
Very Thing.
i!enea Men Are Responsible
Tor the VagarieS OF Fe-
male Attire.
about Dining and Men--The
Woman Who Dimes and
Suffers.
TheWeIl-Dressed Woman Mod
ifies the Style--The Fiehu
Style.
rrccia, Letter TO the Globe.

men. must certainly be one of her men
,acIous little statements made TO XII
.n,re Of the conceit so evident in the
siher sex, DIS | notice that the women L
see out with men are more carefully,
,rIistIcallv and effectively dressed than
he wumen who are with other women,
l.rming what the ungallant New York
newspaper man calls "hen-partieS-
All sorts of little details. carefully
>iudied. are apparent in the woman
who has the cavalier, which are alto
ssether ignored or SIurreu over Ill d
,,oyeulV manner by the woman who Is
i.hout this masculine appendage.
Particularly do | notice this III res
:aurants. There is something intensely
Interesting in the couples that come in.
sometimes, so strangely assorted. Every
enc knows, of course, that TO some men
women are almost as desirable an ad-
Gitiou 10 dinner as wine, and there are
.ew men who when dining do not pre-
Ter the light, sympathetic prattle OF
some pleasing woman to the heavier
talk of another man.
These remarks apply,of course. merel Y
to detached couples, and not to people
who dine zen tamille."
The dining duet of two men is apt to
drift into business" Shop should be
avoided at dinner. 4 woman does not
know. unless she Is miracle. mucn
about financial intricaeles, and the ma
chinery that IS always going round To
accumulate wealth is as dry and UNI
meaning to her as the many ingenious
cUntrivances that make the sewing ma
chine 90. She knows that the action OF
-. oil thn saving machine
but why it Yields to that action, that is
beyond her. And in her ignorance she
is quite happy, and q relief to the
money making man.
notice, however, that men are more
fastidiOuS in the selection of woman to
line with them than women are in their
choice of male companion. man
escorts a woman CALAMITY, and feeds
luXuriently, because in some way she
affords him pleasure. She tickets his
vanity, delights his eye, or supplies
some missing note that his composition
IS needing.
\ woman often goes out with man
merely because he is a man.
Oh. Pm not speaking of your clever,
eccentric women who Scorn male patron
"ge. or YOUR proud, pale herOineo, who
20 on waiting Il la Mariana of the
Heated Grange" rather than meet any
nut their III. possible ideal. l am speak
iug of the ordinary, average mediocre
woman, who saws very emphatlcally
hat She dnrSn't bother about men, and
spends half her short life in that very
nccupation. mean the sort of woman
WHO doesn't look lovely when she cries.
who blusheS without any apparent
reason. ~wh0se argument is faulty.
whose line of conduct Is not always
reasonable - in short, the average,
natural woman.
\ woman is often bored by her male
roIu panion. and bears il like spartan.
Let us suppose her to be dining out
witi man who talks about himself.
Now. what is worse than a man who
talks about himself all the time? What
would Ernest MaltraYerS have been out
of a book? Why, bore! Women tell
ne that if they are in love with the ego
list. tile egOtiSm is not unpleasant; in
fact. the reverse; but if they are not IN
love imagine how firing it must be to
hear OF his particular taste i'll shirts,
and pastry, and the whole plot of his
next new novel, and the compliments
that Madame de Somebody paid him on
lis conversational powers. An egOtiSt
10 be bearable should be amusing. An
rare. And yet many brave women sit
through seven or eight courses with a
dali one.
There's an excess of kindness in
women towards the male sex.
A girl will accept an invitation to dine
with a rejected lover mot her Own) be-
cause, poor fellow, he is so miserable"
There is 10 creature so dreadfully self
isl, 50 totally without the power Of see
ing himself las others see him." as the
rejected lover. HE does rot eat-re-
jected lovers never dO-he pushes the
menu aside, and says, despOndently,
'Anything." He rests his head on his
hand, and sinks into a miserable rev.
erie. waking up to recall what ''she"
looked like two months ago today. 1t
must be very bard for even good
ndtured girl to eat a hearty meal, while
her companion INDUCES in glass of ice
water ana retrOspectiOn. Whining is
not good accompaniment to a feast.
Byron gives good many tips to lovers,
but girls as a rule don't know him well
enough to quote, or else girl in the
Csltlon described might quote
"iIe knows but little of woman's heart
Who thinks that wanton thing is won by
signs"
This Is another case OF a patient wo-
man dining with a trying man. And
why? Certainly not for the dinner. A
woman is never gOurmand, but even
ii 4 man is the worst kind of bore, as
Burns said, "a mans a man, for a.
that" And then the race is becoming
extinct, and is consequently valued
highly.
Ia lny loiterings about restaurants
Ectice that the woman who devotes the
most etfectual care to dress are careful
not to DC eccentric. just at this period
OF fashion there is an opening for being
very eccentric, and we see foolish
women with very inflated sleeves, and
their whole height cut up with those
awful little flounces that make them
resemble babies baskets.
The newest and most popular STYLE
for gowns just now is certainly two or
three deep tiOunces, but these are cut at
Redfern'S so as to give tapering effect.
and TO produce no effect OF ''tubbness."
The Empire" style has, thank good
ness, lived and died. 1t was never
suitable for street wear. and, as the best
tOiletteS in New York are. made for that
purpose, il was never likely to have any
amount OF success here. The STYLE of
woman who accepts gratefully the
Empire" gown may be described as
one 10 whom fashion is not generally
much good, or she to it. For tea gowns
it will always retain its appropriate
ness.
1t seems as though too much trim
ming cannot be -lavished on the bodice.
The becoming little ZOuave bodice IS
mixed with reyeres, pulled sleeves
and large turnover collar. Even with
ali this full vest is worn; and. indeed,
there is no such thing as simplicity in
dress any longer.
must before concluding call your
attention to the fichu style of bodice.
just introduced by Redfern. Two or
three frillS fall over the leg of mutton
sleeve, running in brace form from
shoulder to belt, where the two sides
meet each other III Y form.
The V shaped interval Is filled up
with tiny pleats, and at the back the