St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-27
WORSE THAN CRINOLINE.

Inc ferC Dung woman IHTcuS-
ems TO Return for Mans Infiic-
ton.
Is the pert young girl threatening us
again? She was here few years ago as
kind of feminine protest against the
dude, says the New York Sun, but with
the decay and final disappearance of the
dude the pert girl also vanished.
Now, according to an observant wom-
an who was discussing the subject with
reporter recently, she is again coming
into vogue, an infection to be more
lamented than crinoline.
"The trouble with the pert girl" re-
marked the obseryaDt woman, rs that
she repels men instead Of-what do you
call it?-jollyiug them. Man is beast
that must be jollied by women.
''Most men like to be more or less
sentimental with women, although 1t
seems to be a dreadful task for them.
Now, | have a father, husband and
several brothers, and none OF them, OF
course, are anxious TO be sentimental
with me, but | observe them i'll their re-
lationS with other women, my husband
particularly. Nothing puts them into
such horrible tunks as an experience
with pert-one of my brothers calls
them 'hip'-glrlS.
Inever think of asking my husband
for money, that is. an extra supply, eX-
cept when | know that he has had
comfortable, pride-saUisfying, innocent
little filtration with jolly girl, who has
been just DIS sentimental as he wanted
her to be. Then | own his bank &C
count.
But fancy mans state of mind after
he has quoted the only sentimental
verse he knows to girl who has made
q ''Smart" comment. 1t won't do.
Do you remember that line in one
Dumas comedies where the hero com
plains that there are so many idiots in
the world?' The reply is: Yes, and
there IS always just one more than you
think"
Now, if a girl says that sort of thing
to a man he does not praise her wit. He
just sulks."
We saw two girls who were, perhaps.
early arrivals Of the second crop of pert
girls. They were at dinner in little
restaurant on South Washington square.
1t is one of the restaurants where
some very smart people dine when they
want to do something which they con-
slider real Bohemian" 1t is also eX-
tensively patroniZed by some news
pQpCl uICI QIIO I'll IlolO lOL OllV iAiOAS P.o~
teal purpose of getting very good din
ner at very reasonable price.
The girls were there with a chaperon
and two men of their set. One of the
men asked a waiter for wine list, re-
marking that he wondered if they had
any claret fit to drink there.
POSSIBLY nothing dainty enough for
you, Charley" remarked one of the
girls; "but this fragile little flower is
going to be irrigated with some vim or
dinaire."
One of the girls discovered snails on
the menu. She asked the waiter If
they were cooked with plenty of garlic,
and, being assured that they were, Or
dered some. The chaperOn expressed
horror that the girl should poison her
breath with garlic:
1T doesn't make any difference, my
DEAR" responded tie girl. mo one is
allowed near enough my breath to dis
cover whether Pve been drinking rose
water or eating garlic"
Ever cruel as fair" sighed Charley.
"Charley, you give me pain" said
she. Don't get sentimental, but break
me some bread"
Charley did as he was told, but he was
as dumb as the oysters he ate during
the rest Of the dinner.
The observant woman who has been
quoted, argued that if men were not
such fools in all matters pertaining to
women they could easily remedy all
such little matters as excessive pert
ness, crinoline, and high hats at
theaters.
''lf men don't like thing that women
do" said this philosopher, they either
joke them about it or scold them.
Neither of these plans does particle of
good. Women never know when they
are being joked, and they are so accus-
toned to being scolded that they take it
as a matter of course.
''If men want to effect any reform in
women's manners or dress, all they need
to do is to let the women who offend
severely alone. l saw an example of
this at the theater the other night.
1.-Two popular young women had seats
directly behind woman they knew,
who wore an enormous tall hat, and
directly in front of another woman they
knew who was hatleSS. In the first
entr'acte the men turned squarely
round and gossiped with the woman be-
hind them.
1.-The woman in front was amazed.
She evidently thought that at least one
of the men should have talked to her,
because she had no one but her hus-
band to talk to.
I'm the next entr'acte the men did
exactly the same. The woman in front
was furious. but there was third
entr'acte, and as the curtain descended
for it up went the arms of the woman
in front, out came two long pins, off
came the hat into her lap.
both of the men leaned forward and
talked to her diligently. They saw the
last act of the play, and both escorted
her to her carriage. Do | make myself