The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-15
SHE WANTS TO KNOW
WHETHER TO GO TO LAKE ALONE
WITH YOUNG MAN
The Girl Who Is Shut Up in an Office
= All Day Likes to Get Out in the
EVening-GirIs Cannot Be Too Care
full

Some one wants to know If it is a
proper thing for a girl to go to Lake
Como or to White Bear in the evening
and go out rowing with young man.
This is really too general a question,
as much depends on circumstances. 1t
does not seem like a very harmful
thing for girl to go to Como and out
in a boat with young man, although
it depends a good deal upon the man
and upon the hour that one returns.
To stay out until 10 or II at Como or
White Bear does not seem exactly the
thing for a girl to do, or to come back
on the very late train from White Bear
with a man alone. OF course it is done
and so are many other things, and
perhaps that is why summer is called
the silly season. Very nice girls some
times do things in summer that they
would not think of doing at any other
season of the year There is much
danger about this silly season and
girls should be very careful with whom
they go to lakes and resorts Of any
kind. There seems to be an idea among
girls, and especially in the minds OF
young men, that they can do great
many things that will not be noticed
by their friends or by business men.
This is a great mistake Almost every
thing is known or ultimately gets out.
You can travel to the ends of the earth
and think you are away from every
body who ever heard of you, but in
some mysterious way, a friend of
friend of yours will hear of you, write
to his friend and by the time you re-
turn it will be known on certain
night you were at such a place with
certain people. Once upon a time the
world was large and news travelled
slowly. Now it is small and the Mar
conf is not the only wirelSS telegraph
that binds the hemiSphereS together.
So 1t is in the summer that girls and
boys appear to think that greater
license is allowed them and they do
many foolish things that would never
occur to them in any other season of
the year. But they must not imagine
that they are not seen or that what
they do is not known. Business men:
who have many employees are always
watching, always finding out what those
who work for them do in their leisure
hours and many a young man has lost
his chance in the business world be-
cause he has banked too much upon no
one knowing what he does with his
Wise girls will not go out with young
men to summer resorts and stay until
midnight This is not meant of course,
for girls who have homes and mothers,
but there is q large contingent of
young women whose homes are in the
country and who live at boarding
houses in town and are practically
their own mistresSeS. An evening at
Como is great temptation after being
shut up in an Office or store all day,
and within bounds, say coming back at
o'clock, j. is all very well. But for
girls to be seen with young men alone
coming in from lake resorts at IL or
O'Clock in the morning, does not speak
well for the girls. They may think
that no one knows of it, and perhaps
few do, but that is not the point The
point is doing it. And if a girl makes
practice of this sort of thing it is
sure to get out. Coming into town
and going to restaurants with men AT
night is also very reprehensible This
also becomes known. No woman who
thinks anything of herself. can afford
TO be seen in the down town streets
late at night escorted or unescorted
Her woman friends may not know that
she goes to restaurants at night. but
the men who frequent the streets and
the restaurants will know it and will
ind out the names of the girls who do
go. One must not only avoid evil. but
the appearance of evil. 1t is said,
however, that the greatest offenders in
these things are not unmarried girls,
but married women whose husbands
are out of town. These women are
supposed to be perfectly respectable,
but late suppers at down town restau-
rants without their husbands, are far
from proper and the women know bet
ter. There is really no excuse for a
married woman who does these things.
while for many girl there is an ex-
CuSe.