St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-28
ONE MAN Mic WOMEN
BY a Stronger Personality He
Becomes the Attrae-
ton.
This Is Why Curates Are Such
Highly Opinionated
Creatures.
A Mere Suggestion Of How
Women Spoil Their
Heroes.
Something About the New
Skirts--Blouses Bloom
ing Again.
Special Letter to the Globe.

Special Letter to the Globe.
New YORK, May 27.-One man is a
mistake. When say one man, ! mean
one man among good many women.
Even Adam-one man with one woman
was mistake in sense. The man by
reason of the stronger personality be-
comes the center OF attraction at once,
and Immediately gets spoilt. This is
why curates are so highly opiniated
creatures, because they are, You know,
although they hide 1t under mask of
humility. Women must worship some
thing; they must spend certain
amount of devotion somewhere. To
worship an unknown deity is not al
ways enough for them. 1t is generally
the man who enters most largely into
their everyday life who becomes the OBJ
ject of worship, and usually the more
unworthy of 1t he is the more Slavish
alteration he gets.
If he is anything of man he objects
to it. 1t is rather uncomfortable, when
you are conscious that you are only
very common clay, to be treated as
though you were the very finest porce-
lain. Some outsiders are sure to see
the flaws.
rembember once. while lounging in
a female school, of noting the lionizng
of commonplace looking, long haired
and dirty-looking young man, whose
talent did not seem to me to call Tor
such devotion. He was the professor.
1t is true, and taught the artistic ideas
of ladies whose ages ran from twenty
to thirty-five chow to shoot" He APP
peared to teach conscientiously. but the
devotion and admiration that were
wasted on him were sad to see. How the
pretty art students ran to wash his
brushes, how the older ones .sympathlZed
with him when his pictures were
very justly refused by a hanging com
mittee who knew what they were doing.
His most commonplace remarks were
listened to with breathless attention,
and when he was diSpleased sadness
reigned, and why?-because he was the
only man.
| have seen the father of large
family of girls act as tyrannical poten-
tate in his family circle. when at his
Office he was meek and civil man. 1t
was the amount of feminine alteration
he consumed that made him swell with
conceit.
And then the one brother. Is
there any human creature who makes
his power felt more than the one
brother? He is a king, manager, a
master, Il teacher,a critic, all rolled into
one. He delivers his opinion on "WOm-
an" (spelt with a capital. you know,
and his sisters try to form themselves
on the plan he breaches.
He doesn't approve of "bangs," and
they smooth back their hair: he likes
dOmeSticated women, and they bury
themselves in the Kitchen, whether they
like it or not. He says that no sister of
his shall ever take to the stage as pro-
fession9l; the sister with dramatic as
piratiOns STILES Them. His sway is COM
plete. He is almost goo!
1t is the woman's fault, and if [ were
q woman, and felt that l must worship
something, would try and find some
thing that was very good or very clever,
OF very wonderful some way, but
would not spoil an inotfensive man for
the rest of the world because if this
course of worship is carried OH for long
it has direful results. If a man is Wor-
thy of worship he won't take it.
We have got the new skirt now, and
there is nothing left to do but make the
best of a bad job. The best are. in my
opinion, those that fall ont gradually
from the hips, only they want slim hips,
which is not always possible, for al
though is accommodating in the
matter of additions, she is not equally
SO in the matter OF reduction, but nova
days you might as well die as not be
fashionable, SO whether the new skirts
are becoming or not, and whether the
hips are large or small, the new skirt is
the thing. and it must be worn. So it is
the trimming that we have to consider.
The ruche somewhere above the region
of the knees is the latest thing, though
it looks rather lonely up there all by
itself.
On no account have any more of those
graduated bands. They have had their
day, and, besides, no good modiste will
turn out gown i'll that style now. A
gored flounce with ruching at the
head of it is another, and a newer way,
and especially suitable to silk and lace
gowns. l have seen one or two at Red
ferns with the deep t1ounce trimmed
With rows of satin ribbon, which looked
very smart. AS the season advances
little more we shall see any quantity of
lace flounces. which are very pretty,
albeit rather delicate.
Then it is time to think of blOuSeS
again. Crinolines may come and crino-
lines may 90, but blouses, it seems, will
go on forever.
The latest thing is the cross-over
blouse. Redfern is making it in shaded
silk principally. Certainly. for blouses,
shaded and plaid silks are the idols of
the hour.
A little later we shall see blouses
made up with lace over silk, which
makes them look very dreSSy.
Sleeves are still very large, but have
wilted appearance.