The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-11-21

| just few steps from the magnificent hall
OF the building, and see for yourself Here.
| In this sumptuous apartment, you will find
several couples so palpably and unmistak-
aDiy IN love that 1t Is worth while to sit
down and scrutinize them while you lunch,
Even as you do so others enter It may be
handsomely attired girl whose lover is a
broker and she has come all the way down
town to make his midday meal cheerful.
Or go into the upstairs dining room at the
Astor House. AS you enter you will notice
several girls sitting in the ladies' parlor
with expectant and eager faces. In the din
Ing room you will see several couples, and
careful scrutiny will detect the usual signs
But somehow there is less poetry in these
dining room lovers. It is on the streets
that they appeal to that sympathy which
makes all the world love them. Strolling
along, oblivious to their surroundings, comes
a bright, clear eyed girl with slim, laugh
ing chap whose clothes do not reveal any
particular station or employment. They are
Doth well enough dressed to pass for any
tnlng, but their steps, slow and lingering,
tell the story. If you follow them in their
lelsurely ramble you will see them part
just bsfore o'clock and hurry in different
directions to office buildings in the neighbor-
hood. Perhaps they will meet again to-
night, perhaps on the stroke of noon to-
morrow.
There is another class still more frequent
ly seen. In attire and conduct there is a
The lad will be dressed in rougher clothes
than the maiden; his face and his hands re-
veal that he has to work with his hands
in the store shop. There is nothing of
the clerkly air about him, yet he is as de-
Voted-adoring, even. There is less of the
clinging tenderness in the girl too, for as
you descend in the walks of life you will
find that love making as rule grows less
demonstrative. These two, however will
often walk along hand in hand until the
jeering comment of a passing Arab warns
them. They sometimes, though rarely NAV
be seen eating their luncheon together in a
factory window before taking the inevitable
walk, but they are old who do that that
Engaged, very likely, too.
Common enough is the type of girl who has
a little swagger in her walk and chews gum
constantly. Standing with her hands on
her hips and her feet apart she chaffs with
the boys and returns slang for slang Her
hands are hard and black. Her hat NAV be
on straight, but she carries her head so
that it seems awry. Every gesture and
word is full of a sort of nsoence and a
hooking look is in her eyes as she tests
with her chosen knight. His words and ac-
lions are the same, and his careless swag-
ger and tough manner reveal the model
she has unconsciously copied. He gives her
playful pushes into awning posts and bar
rels. and she tries to slap his in return
and you can hear her laugh a block away
She never stops chewing her gum all the
time.
They roam along Grand, Canal, Greenwich
or Vesey street; it's all the same They
are, after all, just as much wrapped up
in each other, as unconscious of observers
and the hurrying wings of the minutes go
just as speedly-yea, even faster than they
glide by the diners in the white and gold
Savari-.
sounds the knell of all the others and ends
the hlisSful MONDAY dream.