Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-07-11

en- TO see about dinner; and all day long she is |
running mp and down stairs, always doing, and |
always cheerful and light-hearted. And she
never ceases 10 be active and useful until the |
day is gone, when she will polka with the boys, |
and sing old songs, and play old tunes to her
father for hours together, and never tire. She
is perfect treasure, is the mice girl" When
illness comes, it is she that attends with un
wearyng patience the sick chamber. There
is no risk, no amount of fatigue that she will
not undergo; no sacrifice that she will not
make. She is all love, all devotion. | have
often thought il would be happiness 10 be i'll,
to be watched by such loving eyes, and tended
by such fair hands.
One of the most strongly marked character
istcs OF "nice girl" is tidiness and simplic-
ity Of dress. She is invariably associated in
my mind with high frock, plain collar, and
the neatest of neck-ribbons, bound with the
most modest little brooch in the world. new
er knew "nice girl'' yet, who displayed
profusion of rings and bracelets, or who wore
low dresses, or splendid bonnet. Nor can |
imagine mice girl" with curls, but this may
be prejudice.
am quite sure, however, that "coaxers,"
or "c-c's, s,''--ihose funny little curls which it
has been the fashion to gum upon the cheek
with bandone-are totally inconsistent with
the character of mice girl" And If any
one whom have been disposed to regard as a
"nce girl" were 10 appear with her bonnet
stuck on the back of her head, / should cease
TO believe in her from that moment The only
degree of latitude which feel at all disposed
| oil bao,, ha.i
this case, belle ideal lis kid boots with brass
holes. There is nameless charm about tidy
feet, which, | believe, the whole world recog
nizes. ] maintain that neatly booted foot and
welshaped ankle in conjunction with clean,
white petticoat and tight stocking, will near
ly make amends for squint. Young men, is
it not so! yes, you confess it,
/ say again, there is nothing in the world
half so beautiful, half so intrinsically good, as
"nice girl" She is the sweetest flower in
the path of life. There are others far more
stately, far more gorgeous but these we mere
ly admire as we go by. 1t is where the daisy
grows that we lie down TO rest.
Under every condition, every aspect. ad
mire-nay, that is too cold world love the
mice girl !" Under every condition, every
aspect, save one-that one is the condition of
matrimony. When | hear that one of the
"nce girls of my acquaintance is about 10 be
married-about to be monopolized by some jeal-
Gus beast with whiskers, and an ugly sister who
is 10 be bridesmaid, | come over faint and sick
at heart. Where "nice girls" dwell it should
be written up, as on gates of choice gardens,
'Do not pick the fowers' Oh, il is horrid,
horrid, to see that spruce gentleman come in
and take her away into corner for the rest of
the evening. ! may not waltz with her now /;
may not catch her at blind-man's s buff; may
not sit by her and turn over the leaves as she
sings "Auld Robin Gray" even though it were
Christmas time / may not any more kiss her
under the misteioe | may not even look at
her There is that horrd, spruce man with
whiskers glowering at me as if he would eat
me. sigh as the resemblance comes over me
of the many mice girls who have thus been
torn, ruthlessly torn, from me by spruce and,
am sure, stupid men in whiskers. Why, why
are there such things as spruce men with whis-
kers | am sure we should get on much bet
ter without them.
| cannot bear 10 think of mice girl" get
ting married. / cannot contemplate with pa
tience what she is about 10 become. What is
she about to become She is about to become
the slave of one man. In less than year her
figure will be eternally spoit. In less than
year she will wear sloppy dresses and wrappers
of morning. She will leave Off garters, and
} her stockings will hang loose. She will lose
the bloom in her cheek, and the merry twinkle
in her eye. She will have baby, and smell
sour. say cannot contemplate this specta-
Gle with patience. once visited one, who had
been mice GIRL" year or two after her
marriage. The figure which she presented
shocked me. ! could have cried with vexation :;
and am sure if her husband had come in, |
should have kicked him. I have resolved new
er to go through such an ordeal again When
''nice girl" marres now, have done with
her forever.
You may wonder why, since | am such an
admrer of mice girls" l have never made
one my own-why, in fact, have never mar
red one. ] have loved, admired, and adored
; them too much for that. | could no more mar
ry mice girl" than could wilfully trample
down bed of flowers. have all my life con-
sidered it, and still do consider it, crime, lit
tie short of sacrilege, to marry "nce girl. !"
w no Oul savage WOulu ueidce Dedutiul
piece of scul pture! Who but wretch would
stand with his back TO the fire and monopolize
all the heatl To the man who attempts TO
marry "nce girl" | say, as Diogenes said to
Alexander, "Get out of my SUM-"
Marry "nice girl !" Never know what
il would be. No man is hero to his ualet de-
cJlGnlbre, and no husband, am sure, is fine
fellow in his wle's eyes after she has mended
his socks and put patches in his drawers. On
the other hand, am certain there must be a
horrd disenchanment about skmp flannel
petiicoat, and cotton night-cap with frlls
No; lei the mice girl" alone. Let her be
the life and sunshine of "Home" forever. Let
as many hearts pine away and die for her as
will | am ready to pine and die with the rest.
But, oh, change not Miss into Mrs. rob her
not of her girishness and simplicity pollute
not the gushing fountain of her love, which
flows for all, and falls like due upon the world.
Let her be "nice girl" forever; for such as
she never grow DID, or lose the power TO charm.
| Ii you must marry marry the beauty--the hirt