The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-03
Does Dan Cupid Shy at
Girls Who Wear Glasses

xx, HAT is the reIa ton between spec
w tacles on a woman and love?

yx HAT is the relation between spec
w tacles on a woman and love?
The question was put to
young man, to an old man. to a married
woman, to a spinster and to a young
miss. Each replied differently, having
points of view widely separated.
Why" Uttered the young miss, chow
Should know? Anyway, who do you
mean?"
The questioner explained that he sought
to learn whether spectacles were bar to
courtSh1p or boon; whether they i'm
peded the course of real true love; wheth-
er, in fact, in the running of the Matri-
monial Stake for Fillies, the winner was
likely to be found among those wearing
blinkers or those who ran eye free
The miss pondered, then she said: "Wait
| until ask mother
She was assured it was her own per-
sonal opinion that was sought, and not her
mothers, so she cogitated more.
How can I tell'' she asked again, and,
still puzzled, she hummed, I'm little
too young to know.
Now, 1 know an awfully sweet girl
who wears glasses she resumed, "and
she's going to be married. Her beau is
just the loveliest possible. Then there's
Minnie" Who Minnie is was not disclosed
She doesn't wear glasses and she's got
a sweetheart But that doesn't prove any
| thing, does it? Why don't you go and ask
Minnie Or
The interviewer demurred on the ground
that Minnie or the other young woman
might deem the question too personal. He
| also suggested that the young miss imag-
| inc herself a sutton for the heart of fair
maiden and also imagine the effect upon
| herself of peering into the windows of the
maiden's soul through a couple of trans
parent ovals perched on the maiden's pref
| ty nose.
81 Think she replied slowly, I'D rather
have her without the glasses. But say"
she added, with more spirit, "Pd rather
have a young man with glasses than a
I Then. blushing at her confession or its
| irrelevancy. she begged to be excused
| from further consideration of the sub
/ ject.
The young man to whom the question
was put answered off-hand. mo specta-
cles on mine" Then he continued in a
reminiscent mood:
It remember when was a youngster in
knickerbockers I had sweetheart. She
| was perfect little picture-blue eyes and
| golden curls and all that sort of thing
when she could not come out to play and
| she used to stand at the window and
watch for me. When she saw me she
would rap on the window, and I would
| run to her and we would kiss each other
| through the pane Of glass. That was all
right in those days. but it strikes me that
! fiat now. You can't send an electric cur
rent through a non-conductor.
| "A girl might as well have pane of
| glass over her face as a pair of spec
! tacles, so far as 1 am concerned Both
| are the same material and the difference
in size would not change the result.
| Imagine making love to girl who
wears pair of masks on her. face. You
are sitting on the lounge beside her
Everything seems propitious for a pro-
! posal. Your heart is chugging away like
a gasoline motor in an auto. and you
! take 1t for granted hers is pumping the
same You put your, left arm tenderly
around her neck and draw her gently to-
ward you. Just as you say Darling the
lapel OF your coat catches the right-hand
end OF her right-hand google and
wrenches the pair off her Grecian nose.
That hurts her nose and jars her eyes.
and she snaps. George, you clumsy thing.
look what you have doner Down you
come out of the twenty story of
heaven. and the elevator never stops un-
I'll 1t hits the floor Of the SubcelIar with a
bump.
THAT ends lovemaking for that night.
It's long climb up those stairs. for the
elevator runs only one way. I don't blame
| the girl for getting angry, for if there is
anything more aggravating than having
your glasses knocked off / don't know it
But it's hard on Cupid. and a couple of
experiences like that will cure any fellow
of making proposals.
Why can't he ask the girl to take her
glasses off? There's no reason why he
can't. know one fellow who did. but