St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-11

It was very dainty little woman
whom met on Wabasha street one day
Who, as she wrinkled ner pretty browS
over the perpleXitieS of the ques-
lion, besought me with almost tear
full Supplication to "say something to
the men of this town about splitting in
the cars" st. Paul men, as rule, de-
serve to he claSSed among the salt OF
the earth. They are handsome ana
gallant and debonair. They give up
their seats in the car, tho Mr.. Lowry'S
minion has already pocketed their
nickel, and should render value re-
celyed for it, without frown; in fact
thew try to make the abaShed woman
whom the stress of shopping or the ca
price Of dreSsmakers on the thrau OF
business has kept down town till the hour
when men are "hOmeWard vending their
weary way" feel that they exist only tc
be kind to fOrlOrn femIninity. Such are
the majority OF the men VINO clam ST.
Paul as their home. but alas. that L
should have to record ii, there are few,
a very few, who do not come under the
head of this description. These few arc
the ones this complaint was leveled at.
Do YOU think, MeSsieurS of the small
minority, that it is a small thing to
tidy woman to have her dress bespat-
tered by sCme man who lacked the intiu-
ence of early training i'll all gentle ways
to the extent CT allowing him 10 grow to
the stature of manhood, and be old
enough and big enough to wear stove
pipe hat and carry a cane, and even to
nj fn n
ungentlemanly thing as this? You may
retOrt 10y saying that women have no
business to wear such long dresses
as that they drag over the car floor
and so get SOiled, but my dear
sirs. she did not make the fashions, ana
Is not this one of the things that you adj
mIre in her, this dislike of being or do
ing ANYTHING that shall make her con-
SpicuOuS? She must wear a dress of the
prescribed length or you and others like
you would. say, "Why the -,my dear,
don't you fix yourself like other WOm-
en?" l know that is the way you talk,
for you have not been well bred or this
would not need TO be written. The ac
ton of these men who do not belong to
the majority is not only ungentlemanly
and unclean, but unhealthful as we'll.
If the germ theory in disease is The cor
rect one, and all Weii-iDformed medical
students seem TO think it is, then these
poisonous germs cast from your mouth
onto the car floor in the state the
air is in these c0nveyanceS usually must
be taken up by the lungs of other peo-
pie, and who knows the misery you
may be intlicting on these innocent per-
sons? If the rides were very long
it might seem unkind to ask you to re-
frain from splitting while in a car. but
they are not, and surely the request is
moi an eXtravagant one. VIII you not
comply when by so doing you can earn
the gratitude of all the women of what
ever class who ride on any of the lines
that traverse the city? l am sure you
Will. Most of your little tranSgressiohs
on the laws of delicacy and refinement
that characterize that perfect being, a
gentleman, are due, l am sure, to either
ignorance Of the finer points of that law
or thOughtlesSness engendeTed by the
rush and ABSORPTION of these hurrying.
busy days. | mention this little matter
to save you from the humiliation OF see
ing some day that look of scorn on a
lovely face that cuts a sensitive man to
the soul. not in the style OF one who
wishes to find fault with his fellow man.
AUNT POLLY.