The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

to the dress reform work by exhibiting
among other gowns the neat rainy
day dress, many women in all serious
ness condemned it as altogether i'm
modest, and many others, who had
never seen Mrs. Miller nor the grace
full costumes designed by her. pointed
to every short-haired, ShOrt-Skirted in
dividual as a product of the Jenness-
Miller movement, until everything that
was ungainly and unwOmanly was laid
at Mrs. Miller'S door. But 10! that,
which all the women refOrmers in tho
country had set the wheels in their
heads to going in order to bring about,
has been brought into vogue, and
fashionable vogue, too, by the two
wheels of a bicycle which call unmis-
takably for comfort and safety. So
now, when a woman has become ac-
customed to the short but neat bicycle
suit which she has worn on a clear
day, she sees nothing immodest in
DOMINIC the same suit on a rainy day
instead of dragging her long skirts
through the wet and mud. A monu-
ment to the bicycle!
Does man ever speak to a woman
he does not know on the street unless
he is encouraged to think it will be
agreeable? Well, perhaps with
significant emphasis of the man." the
answer to the question would be no"
but certainly creatures do speak to
lone women and girls without a scintiI-
la of encouragement, and it puzzles
the ordinary imagination to place them
Ill the Creators catalogue of Earthly
living beings. 1t cannot be that they
come under the head of Williams" for
william has brains and a character,
though it be satanic. They can
not be monkeys, for evolutionists tell
us that there is the possibility of a
man in monkey. And beasts are
honest brutes: they never fawn when
they mean to fight. Fishes don't come
to the surface usually and they aren't
afraid of water 1t must be that the
catalogue reads humanity, beasts,
birds, fishes and human sundries."
AS for the girls who do encoura ge
must accord to them the privilege of
the transmigration of souls and, no
doubt, writes opposite their names.
ITO be turned into flies, that they may
light on whatever and whomsoever
they please
Had I the wisdom of Solomon or
serve me so we'll as the dimple in my
Chin says one of the characters Of
Olive Schreiner. What a sad comment
on the social fabric to which it applied
And how absurd such a remark would
be now, coming from woman of Sc
cial standing in our country. "She
is pretty, but she doesn't know any
thing" is verdict that brings a dead
lier consequence than that which was
supposed to follow the higher educa-
ton of a woman fifty years ago. And
yet the true woman has not only re-
tanned her womanliness, but has added
charm thereto which is far more
powerful than that of the dimple She
cooks and sews, nurses and mothers,
calls and entertains with intelligence
now not by tradition or superstition
But, alas! education has not annihi-
lated the difference between that gen
tie courtesy Of the lady born and the
heartless etiquette of the lady made
and it never will. 1t is the difference
between the ring of gold and the
twang Of gilded tin. If you would be-
deceived. don't touch it or let it make a
sound. That woman who has the heav-
enborn art of refusing request with
the same kindly smile and gentle man
Eer with which she grants it is one
OF the genuine jewels of society. and