The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-02
MODERN YOUNG WOMAN
SHE is WELL ABLE no TAKE
CARE OF HERSELF
There Is No Need of Worrying About
the Girl of Today-How She Goes
Through the World With Her Eyes
Open

There are some young women whom
one need never worry about or fear
that they will not get what is coming
to them. This is not meant as crlti-
cism of any young women in particu-
lar, but rather as compliment to
some who seem especially blessed with
an ability to look after themselves.
This is not an age of the timid.
shrinking girl who does not dare lift
her voice even in self-defense; it is,
on the contrary, time when the
strenuous young woman is to the fore.
She knows her own mind, just what
she wants, what she doesn't want and
how to obtain the thing she desires.
She is not easily embarrassed, states
many things calmly that her grand
mother would not mention before her
grandfather, is clear-eyed and level
headed. She knows what she thinks
about politics, the tariff, whom she
wants for president and why, and has
well defined opinions on all the sub
jects of the day. She adores Balzac-
but does not think her mother ought
to read him-loves Byron, thinks Shell
ley was abused, reads Maeterlinck's
essays and quite generally knows the
tweedle-du Indecision is unknown
to her Doubt of anything, herself
least of all, never enters into her cal
eulations. When she comes out and
makes her bow to society-perhaps
after four fearsome years at Vassar-
she wonders whether all the good old
danes who come to look her over have
the faintest idea what Life really
fO md
all sorts of social functions with that
calm certainty that everything was
made for her and is because of her.
which is pleasanter to possess than it
is to behold. She patronizes the other
girls and snubS the young men. Pres
emily she accepts some highly groomed
young man who is well supplied with
this worlds goods. She manages him
in the same calm way that she has
hitherto ruled her mother, and when
the time for the wedding comes she
displays the greatest common sense.
The modern young woman never al
lows her heart to rule her head and
she fears not God, man or the devil.
In the first place, without appearing
TO at all, she arranges several little
kitchen, handkerchief and stocking
showers, which provide her with many
things needed in trousseaux. Then in
the question of wedding presents she
is unusually sensible. When some friend
comes along and says to her, What
would YOU like ?" she is not foolish and
does not state that a black-headed pin
would more than exceed her widest
hopes, but she promptly makes out
list, which may include dinner knives
or parlOr rug or cut glass bowl.
She has no nonSenSical ideas that she
should say she does not want any,
thing. No, indeed Or she might do as
one st. Paul bride did some years ago
and leave a list-aS she was going out
of town-at prominent jewelers. for
the convenience of those friends who
wished to send her wedding gifts. No
body but modern, clear-headed girl
would think of this. And it is, of course,
a help when one wants to send friend
something to know what she wants
All of this is meant more in the way
of admiration than criticism: 1t is
because there are so many girls who
are not endowed with that wonderful
self-possession and ability to look out
for themselves that makes the girl
who has it so marked. We all know
her; she takes possession of friends
house when someone dies and manages
the undertaken, or if there is to be
wedding she tells the groom just what
to do and where to stand. She is
blessing in disguise. She is the sort
of girl that if you are a man you
would like to see one of your friends
marry, particularly if he needs man
ager, and heaven knows he often does.
She is fearful and wonderful, this mod
ern, level-headed girl, and we all take
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