St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22
Oh, THAT ''OTHER GIRL
The Hateful Creature Always
Appears and Upsets Cal
culations.
Tale Of a Belle Who Can't See
Why the Other GirP'
Exists.
She Is Blind to Her Beauties
and Alive to Her De-
feets.
The Fashions of Our Grand
mothers Brought to
Life.
Special Letter to the Globe.

Special Letter TO the Globe.
New YORK. Jan. 10, 1893. How we
hate that other girl! There always is
another girl, it seems, though she does
not always appear upon the scenes until
half way through what we may term
the affair" The affair" means
little acquaintance between one of "ns
girls and some young man-you all
understand what l mean; the
kind of acquaintance with little
more interest than usual attached to
t. As l said before, the "other
girl makes her appearance about half
way through the middle act of the
affair. Of course. if any of us-I mean
IS girls-ungrammatical @maYbe-but
hats what l mean-kneW that there
was another girl at all, we shouldn't
even commence the affair; if we thought
for an instant that there was such
thing as another girl, who had even.the
smallest portion OF the young mans IN
terest. we wouldn't ever have encour-
aged him.
The "0ther girl" may be very good
sort of a girl. but whatever her good
points are we shut our eyes to them.
Her relations are questionable; her skirt
hangs badly: her ears are too big: she
is not particular about money matters;
she walks badly We notice these KIND
of tTit1es and point them out With JOY 10
our girl friends.
And all this because she is the other
girl. -
We often SIT pensively with the latest
most Interesting nOveliu our idle hands,
and wonder why there is always another
girl 10 destroy our peace OF MIND. why
must this Well-dTeSSed inSlnuaUlng ser
pent always enter our Eden. was there
ever any woman, with the exception OF
Mother Eve. VINO was free from TINS
kind of competition. We feel quick.
hot rage against that "Other girl" To
think that whatever tender speeches
and kind words and looks the young
man in question has lavished on US, he
keeps something Of the same KIND
always on hand to bestoW upon that
haterul "Other girl"
What can he see in her? Love IS
blind: so also is hate, for we gee moth
ing al all in this creature who insists III
pOaching on our preserves. Nothing
in her. and yet she has made that little
rift within the lutte" which Tennyson
sung so beautifully of. But TennySOn
was a man. and didn't understand, al
though so clever, the complex feelings
of girl on this subject No one but
girl can understand them.
About three weeks ago. we will say,
the other girl" had not made her hate
full appearance. Whatever she had
done she had the good taste TO keep III
the background. Possibly she had sent
BIN her photograph. Or she had an
appointment with HIM on the q. l., ana
very likely he had sent her roses. But
we didn't know it, and tins is an exam
Tlp ola case where ignorance is bliss"
Three weeks ago we had fun at thea
ters. slelgung, dancing. even walking;
tLen anything was enjoyable.
Now when he proposes any sort of
pleaSuring we seem to detect q faIter in
his voice, and we reply with a great
assumption OF dignity that we are ''en-
gagged that evening, thank you"
The serpent has entered our Eden;
our preserves have been pOached upon,
and with outward nOnchalance but III
ward heartbTeak we leave the ground
clear for he other girl.
Well. girls. | don't know what your
collective or individual sentiments are
towards the "Other girl" The philO-
sOphical ones very scarce articles
among the girl tribe will perhaps feel
mat she is a necessary evil and must be
tolerated The soft ones will grin and
bear it. But there's another species
hat feel they must be all or nothing.
Away with the other girl.
And the fashions are these. Our
grandmOthers', Just this. and with the
Inevitable alterations and improvements
that must be the outcome of almost a
century. exactly this. We see at
Redtern's the pelerinc berthe, the
short stiff, small waist, the spreading
skirts. the huge sleeves, the wide slOp-
ing shoulders. At present Redtern is
trimming the spreading skirts with three
little frlls set at a small distance
apart, each one being headed with a
band OF paSsementerle or gallOOn, but
bear in mind that these frills are very
narrow and do not tend to shorten the
figure much. DO l see approaching US
from no very distant portion OF the
future that bette nOr of all women of
taste-the tOunced skirt. l mean the
atrocity with graduated tlOunces that
run I'D to the waist and cut Woman's
height all up to little bits. Well, fear
that it is coming, but, thank heaven,
not yet.
For these quaint, but somewhat mar
tstic, gowns velvet is more used than
any other material, and a good deal of
lace is used, but no fine sorts. Fur is as
much used as ever, and | notice that
Bedfern is using it good deal in con-
nectOn with satin. With the fur col
laretteS which are being worn artificial
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