The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30
ly yellow with what I should call an
timoviliamensis'
Then you don't believe in the moral
conveyed in that exquisite poem mar
rating the doings of the lad who

Observation-Disclosures.
Then you don't believe in the moral
conveyed in that exquisite poem mar
rating the doings of the lad who
Bore mid snow and ice
banner with that strange device
EXCELSIOR asked.
Il do not" said the lady. Excelsior
| is good material to stuff hotel mat
tresses and doll babies with, but for
myself l think the young man who
lost his life advertising that particular
brand Of health food was, in the ex-
pressive phraseology of your country
men, a Willieboy."
Il should very much like your opin-
ion, my dear goddess" said I, ION the
subject of the new woman"
You mean the kind that neglects
her babies for BalZac, and who prefers
writing papers on The Influence of
Herbert Spencer Upon the Navajo In
dams to darning her husbands socks 2"
she demanded.
Something of that sort" said I. DO
you approve of those ladies?"
Il most certainly do" she replied.
They are to be encouraged in the
work, they do, for don't you sec a
woman who prefers Balzac to her baby.
if she devoted her time the latter.
would probably kill him before she had
him six weeks; and the miseries of a
husband whose socks had been darned
by a woman whose mind during the
operation was ranging through the
Navajo country in the train of Herbert
Spencer would be appalling. Such a
woman, in her preoccupatiOn, would
darn the hole at the point of the sock
where her husbands foot should go in,
and then the poor fellow wouldn't be
able to wear them at ALL"
We have been having some lucid
q ina =
recently" I observed. Would you
mind stating for publication whether
you believe in it?"
L believe in it in two cases." she re-
piled. After marriage and at dam
cling school. Otherwise not. The
more a husband and wife learn things
together, the less they have to explain
rltating assumption of superiority
which the more knowledgeable of two
persons invariable affect, when he or
she is telling somebody something he
or she thinks he or she doesn't know
and at dancing school satisfactory re-
suits are never attained when two boys
and two girls dance together The
waltz should be constantly differen-
tiated from a football match or a
o'clock tea. But my general attitude
toward coeducation was shown many
years ago when I was one of the lead
ers of the Olympian society. There was
man named Action. as you may have
heard, who tried to join my swimming
class for ladies, in the days long since
passed.
Read of the Incident said I.
We'll, you know what happened to
him." the lady queried.
You turned into a deer, 1 be-
lieve," l replied.
Yes" laughed Diana, "he has been
stag party ever since"
l leaned back in my chair to laugh at
my chance companions jest, and then
turned to congratulate her upon her
| humor, but she had disappeared, and a
moment later, glancing upward at the
moon, I discovered that she had re-
sumed her place upon the tower,
whence, much to my jealous chagrin,
/ observed that she was strenuously
endeavoring to get up a Irritation with
the comet, who must have been in re-
ceptive mood, for as l left the roof and
wandered slowly homeward / noticed
he was wagging his tail like Skye ter
rier with the vision of a good supper
before him.