The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-18
WOULD Be IMPROPER
FOR GIRL TO GO TO RESTAURANT
WITH A YOUNG MAN
The Girl Who Is Called Fast Is Often
Mot Guilty of Forwardness, but is
Just Too Fond of Good Time-She
Would Avoid Being Talked About.

A girl writes to know If it would be
proper for her to go to restaurant
alone with a man after the theater TO
have supper.
1t is strange that any girl should con-
slider it necessary to ask question OIL
this kind OF course, she should not
go alone with a man, before or after
the theater without a chaperon, and
there are few places in this city where
she can go without chaperon.
There are a few; it is obviously impos-
sible to give a list of them here.
Every woman ought to have instinct
which tells her what is proper and
what is not; if she has this sensitive
sixth sense which makes her little
uncomfortable when she does things or
which she cannot approve, 1t Should
be an excellent guide. Girls who have
not this sense are very unfortunate,
and often get into scrapes which in
themselves are innocent enough, but
which make bad impression and be-
fore long are called fast.
Fast is a very unfortunate word
to be attached to any human belng'
but doubly so when in connection with
the name Of a young girl. The uncer-
tainty of its meaning when applied 10
various persons and those in different
ranks of life makes it all the more an
unfortunate word. AS applied to
society girl who is unfortunately so
fond of fun that she sometimes carries
it a little too far, it means nothing
worse than that she does foolish and
imprudent things, which, after all, may
be more the fault of her mother than OF
her own imprudence.
To take a chaperon everywhere one
goes sounds very well, but often does
not mean much, because many times
4111 Oh,
than the girls. In the days of mar
ried bellies, and an age when atten-
ton to married women does not shock
as it used to, the girl who goes with
gay young married woman to parties
and suppers, is apt to be left very
much in the background. To be frank,
the girl who needs an older woman al
ways at her heels to keep her straight
could not be trusted anywhere. And
on the other hand the girl who behaves
herself everywhere from a sense of
self-respect and innate refinement,
never needs chaperon.
The chaperon-that is proper
'one-is, however, still a valuable adj
junct to certain social affairs and she
has her place. 1t is not good form for
a girl to go from one town to another
to parties, or to very late affairs any
where, without a chaperon. But, as
remarked ABOVE, lHere are CldpcIOHS
and chaperons. 1t. is quite the fash
ion here to select for that position
some recent bride who belonged to the
little group of girls, whom, after mar
riage, she chaperons. 1t is proper
enough, but she does not keep a very
strict eye and the girls know it.
girl cannot be too careful not to
allow her name to be synonymous with
gay doings, late card parties and
revels that verge upon fastness, even
if they are not actually fast. 1t is
very easy to lose the fair whiteness of
ones name, but it is almost impossi-
bic for any woman to get it back
again.
The girl who wrote should never
under any circumstance-even If her
host is her fiance-go to late supper
with man alone. If it were known
and everything is known by some
body-it would injure her very much,