The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-29
WORLDS FAIR MAIDEN
A NEW KIND OF GIRL AT ST.
LOUIS
She Is Rather Tired and Down at the
Heel, but She Sees Everything and
Is Having the Time of Her Life


we hear of the summer girl, the
golf girl and automobile girl, n now
we have a new one called the worlds
fair girl. She is the very latest and
most UP to date, so it is worth while
for us to consider her, if not to emu
late, at least to admire. Alas, expect
ing to find her trim, we'll shod, be-
witching, one woman correspondent
from st. Louis gives US a shock by
saying that this fair girl is the most
sbedraggled, unkepnpt, ungroomed
specimen of femininity to be found In
h country. Nearly everyone knows
how exceedingly tiresome is sightsee-,
ing. how wearing to the bottom of
skirts, and undoing of curly hair is
this matter of fairs. Consequently we
should try to be lenient with this tired
girl and remember that her head is
in a whirl, not only from trying to
crowd the sightseeing of six months
into one week, but from the effort of
remembering where she is stopping
and of finding her room after she has
discovered the hotel.
We are told that this weary fair
girl usually wears "a white skirt not
short enough to keep entirely off the
SlOullu, II i . RI a tCly
state around the bottom and not con-.
ducive to a fresh appearance. If her
skirt has even a bowling acquaintance
with her waist in the back, it is by
sheer accident or by grace of several
unsightly pins. Her hair, we. are told,
is the very latest" pompadour, not
dragged down over the left eye, for
which We must be thankful, but deco
rated with a variety of combs which
she has picked up at random. Some
times she shows hat unsightly white
line of scalp which appears between
the hair dragged forward and that
pulled back, for now the girls put half
of their hair low in the neck. and IL
not done well it is simply awful. The
fair girl wears a hat of gay colors, and
when she reaches her hotel at night it
is. more likely to be hanging by three
hairs over one ear than on straight.
But who cares much for appearances
when doing a worlds fair.?. =
She is further described as wearing
several wells, not over her face, oh, no,
but for characterization hat trimming,
anything but the original purpose of
the veil. The fair girl also carries a
bag and some.&newspaper clippings
from her home paper. which tell her
1just what to see and what to skip.
For it is rumored hat much j%udicious
1ttoy NC oOAiS az IL AOdAS, LII
of which one should find out before
going.
And. be it further known, that the
fair girl, especially if from the country
districts, is a very proper young per-
son. and when she goes into the art
building to see the pictures puts on
blue goggles, supposed to guard
against some acanvases which mother
mightn't want her to see.
But she is having a good timei And
who ~begrudges it to her? For a week
at the fair gives the girl from the coun-
try something to talk about for the
rest of her life, not to mention a broad
er point of view. After this she is a
travelled young person, and takes no
back seat when the outside world is
being discussed at the sewing society.
But is h tired and does her back
ache? Well. ask the first flair girl''
you may happen to meet, and listen to
her describe the real thing in fatigue.