The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-16

or wife he gladly exchanges for the wild
orgies OF the deIni- monde. Who is to be
blamed for this exhibition Of perverted
taste? His ancestors laid the founda-
ton for his natural tendencies, His
father, his grandfather. and so on for
many generations, all did the same thing,
and they were eminently respectable.
Here is Willie Boy who always stays
| at home the joy of the Sunday school
and the Kings Daughters. He does not
dance, neither does he play billiards or
| cards. He never attended a theater in
! his life and bushes at the accidental
| sight of nude statuary. His blood seems
| to flow sluggish through his veins He
! condemns humanity for its wickedness
| His grandfather was q traitor to his
| country, his father was guilty of forgery
and I will not be surprised any day to
! hear Of sudden Disappearance and the
! bank where Willie Boy is a trusted emf
! ploye will hold the guaranty company
! for $4,000 on his bond. Willie Boy is
working out his destiny along the lines
of least resistance
! How about our sisters our cousins. and
our aunts? The same rules obtain. modl-
/ the Puritans are here accented by the
/ accumulated force of ten generations;
+ cold. chaste and uncharitable Wrapped
+ in tier clCaks of righteousness they
shun those whom they condemn. be-
cause of acts. the moving motives of
which they cannot understand. The
! various grades in the social scale are
| filed with those who are what they are
through the tyranny of the great prir-
| ciple of natural selection
/
| 1t was at the Metropolitan. The audi
ence had assembled The curtain was
about to rise. when four young things
about the middle of their teens, with new
| suits OF hand-me-downs On their yet I'M
| formed little bodies, with canes in their
hands and glasses on their noses.
marched down the aisle to the front row
in the orchestra circle, and there sat.
/ AT each interval these four rranik1ns
arose in response to some instructive
prompting and with canes, glasses
clothes and all, marched UP the aisle
and out, only to return after the curtain
had risen on the next act.
| Why did these little boys seek the front
row at $50 per- instead of the gallery?
| Why did they don their evening dress
which had cost their mothers at least S.
per suit? Why did they carry a cane,
mad why, can any one tell, did they go
out each time between acts? Can it be
that these four embryonic men designed
to assist the farce that held the stag,
/ with minor farce in the pit? Was it an
unconscious mimicry-that power pos
sessed by some animals, to assume at
will the color of their surroundings? Or,
were they simply working out their des-
| tiny?
She was young, not over twenty-ono,
but with the air of the woman of the
world--fuh of arTimation and-weu, a
something that the experienced often see
but can't define for the want of a word.
| She had read, yes oh, so much. L. P
Roe and Miss Evans were her favor te
novelsts And Hawkins, yes he wrote
THE Prisoner of Zenda" and Capt
Dippe." Isn't that lovely-I read it in the
Ladies Home Journal when it first came
| out. The war in South Africa? o, 1
didn't care about such things. 1 don't
give a fig to hear about that Chinese mat
ter and that stupid Philippine fuss. IN
fact, my social duties keep me so busy
! that don't get time to read the papers.
o, yes, I always read the magazines,
Munsey's and the Ladies Home Journal.
Don't you think the storyettes in Mum
sey's fine. You don't read them, not the
Ladies Home Journal? Well, you ought
think it is just too sweet for anything
like those heart-to-heart talks o, how
would you like to write such beautiful
things2
He slowly made his way toward the
door, got his hat; she helped him on with
his overcoato and he departed into the
night AS he went along he thought and
| thought, he said to himself well, Ill be
ID. He did not call again.
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The sand was deep. but over a Io3g
stretch of it's yielding surface workmen
| had laid a walk of single boards. that
they might more easily carry the heavy
loads of plank from the boat to the pic
mic grounds some thirty rods from the
beach Lightly tripping along this i'm
provised walk came two summer girls,
daintily bewitching in duck suits and tan
shoes. In the opposite direction came
workman staggering under a load Cf
plank. The first girl stepped aside, Civ
ing the right Of way to the toiler with
his load. The second girl, with he ad
erect held the walk. The workm
plodded painfully through the sand
why did you compel the man to leave
the walk?" asked the young man waiting
at the beach. Because it is the bust
ness of a gentleman to yield the walk to
a lady," was the reply. The people at
the hotel that night wondefed why the
serious-faced young man had so little to
say to the vivacious Miss Blank and was
so attentive to her palmer cousin. BY
the merest accident he had discovered
! which was the lady.
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