The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-15
WOMEN IGNORE PAPERS
MAJORITY READ NOTHING BBFi
THE ADVERTISEMENTS
Philadelphia Pastor Declares That
Women of the Smart Set Are Addict
ed to High Balls and Cigarettes
Poker Playing in Drawing Rooms of
St. Paul Society Women.

It is rather shocking to find that
even in this day of much printed mat
ter that women do not read the papers
But such seems to be the fact One
well known ST Paul woman SAID re-
Gently that the only thing she read in
the paper. were the advertisements;
another woman complained to the
writer the other day that there was
not anything in the papers except ad-
vertisements. That was another point
~ OF view and showed that she was a
reader.
Ihere are many women who read pa
pers, but it is feared that there is a
larger number who do not. Indeed, one
81 Paul girl says that she believes any
announcement that one should like to
De seen by women of st. Paul should
De put right in the center of the ad-
Vertisements of department stores;
there she believes it would be appre-
Grated. This same girl said in regard
10 some lectures which had been very
thoroughly advertised in all the daily
papers that when she telephoned some
OF her friends mentioning time and
place. in every instance they thanked
her for telling them and said they
ShoCId not have known a thing about
1t II she had not telephOned. That con-
WINGED her that they never read the
papers.
How woman or girl can expect to
know anything or keep up with the
rush of modern times without reading
the papers it is difficult to see But
the fact remains that if you tell a
Woman-some WOmen-of something
that had been in every paper for a
week, she will evince a curiosity and
interest which plainly shows she never
heard of it before. This happens in nine
OTFf Of O-,
Then, on the other hand, there are
women who read several daily papers,
including one from New York, and
several Weeklies, not for the advertise
ments and the scandals, but for news
and to keep themselves posted about
current events. Above all, the society
girl should want to read The debu-
tante Will find that if she goes out and
mas nothing to say but nonsense she
viii not last long. Men read; there are
very Few men who do not read several
papers every day, and when they find
that the girls they meet constantly can
not talk about the most ordinary hap
penings, perhaps not even local mat
ters, they receive a very poor impress
sion of their intelligence
But the fact remains that women do
not read the papers, and it is a very
depIOrable thing. There are some worn-
en- who do not read at all, incredible as
1t may seem. The writer has known
women who do not read a book a year.
A taste Tor reading can and should be
cultivated and one cannot begin too
soon, but if one does not care for
books, one should at least make 1t a
point to read some paper every day, if
for nothing else than to know what is
p going on in the world.
Philadelphia, accounted slow by all
the world, is not so slow after all, when
I hn en- owl ofo
1ngs. Only the other day a Philadel-
phia pastor of a fashionable church
attacked society from his pulpit for the
TWO sins of drink and cigarettes He
says that the women of the smart set
indulge in too many high balls and
smoke on the sly 1t is surprising that
they regard it necessary to do it on the
sly, as women smoke very openly in
many places They have been known
TO do it in the Sanity City Gambling
IS also sin of society everywhere In
the East it takes the form of bridge
whist, the craze for which may be
somewhat dying OutS but in the West
and st. Paul-it takes the form of
poker. If the st. Paul pastors knew
now much poker playing for money
went on in the drawing rooms of well
known women, they would stop preacb-
ing about protoplasms and evolution
and take to a crusade against women
who gamble.
A startling form Of entertainment
was introduced in so-called slow Phil
aGelphla the other day when q well
known society woman took a party of
her friends to luncheon at an auto
matte restaurant which has been re-
Gently opened there. The place is very
pretty being a large room completely
lined with mirrors, between which are
little elevators, or lifts, as they are be-
ginning to call them in the East, which
carry up and down whatever refresh
ment you may desire. There are no
walters. You put nickel in a. slot for
cup Of coffee, another for a sand
Wich and so on, and these things ap-
pear and you carry them yourself to
your table. This novel cafe has at
tracted the attention of society and It
is the correct thing for the hostess.
carrying a bag full of nickeIs. to take
here guests there and let them have
the run OF putting them in the slot for
their lunch. What will poor society 10
Wnen there is no longer anything that
1t has not done?
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Billings, who
nave been at the Aberdeen for sevara !
weeks, and who leave for New York To-
morrow to reside, will be much missed
by 81. Paul They are a young cauple
VINO nave made many friends during
their short residence here and are ex-
Tenely popular in society in which
they are We'll known. Mr.. Billings is q
member of prominent New York
family, and it is natural that he should
desire to live where his interests are
and where he is well known. Although
leaV1ng now for the East, Mr. and Mrs
Billings will not settle in New York
until next autumn, as they will spend
the spring and summer abroad, takina
f1rst an automobile drive through Eng
land. Mr.. and Mrs. Billings have beer
among the most assiduous auto-driy.
ers in st. Paul, and Mrs. Billings al.