Weekly Trinity journal., 1857-10-03
Nice Girls
BY A BACHELOR.

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nice girl-one OF those lovely. good tempered
good-bearted, sweet-faced, amiable. neat nattv
domestic crea tures, whom we meet in the sphere
of home ditIusing around the domestic hearth
the influence Of her goodness. like the essence OF
sweet flowers.
What we all know by nice girl is not the
laughing beauty who dwadles on a sofa and talks
Of the last new novel or the last new opera or
the great girate-lOoIing girl, who creates an ef-
feet by sweeping maiestically through a drawing
room. The nice girl does rot even dance well
or play well, and she does not know a bit how to
use her eyes or coquette with fan she never
languishes-she is too active for that she is not
given 10 novel reading for she is always too bu-
sy; and as TO the opera, when she goes there, she
does not think ii necessary 10 show her bare
shoulders but sits generally way back in the box
unhcedcd and unnoteed. 1t is not.in such scenes
that we discover the nice girl
Who is it that rises first in the morning and
gets the bre affast ready before the family comes
down? Who is it that makes papa's toast, and
carries up mamas tea. and puts buttons on the
boys shirts, and waters the flowers and feeds the
chickens, aud makes everything bright and com
Portable in the paror? Is it the sofa beauty, or
the giraffe. or the elegant creature? BY no
means ! 1t is the nice grln Her unaided toi-
let has been performed in the shortest possible
space Of time yet how charmingly her hair is
done bow simply elegant is her silk dress and
plain white collar? What hearty kisses she dis
tributes, unGskcd, among the members of The fam
lily? She does not present her cheek or her
brow, like the fine girls, but takes the initiative
herself, aud kisses the boys one after the other
with an audible smack which says aloud
love you ever so much If ever ! coveted any
thing in my life, it was one Of those kisses from
that nice girl She is quite at home in all the
domestic duties she troubles no one to help the
kettle : she has fetched it from the hob AID re-
plenishcd the teapot, while some one has been
Thinking about Offering his assistance
Breakfast over She dives down into the kitch-
en- to see about dinner, and all day long she is
running up and down stairs, always doing and
lighthearted and She never ceases to 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 q perfect treasure. is the nice
girlH When illness comes, ii is she that attends
with unwearied patience the sick chamber. There
is no risk, no amount Of fatigue that she win not
undergo, no sacrifice that she will not make; She
is all love- all devotion ! have often thought
it would be happiness to be i'll. to be watched by
such loving eyes and tended by such fair hands.
One Of the most strongly marked cbaracters-
tics OF nice girl is tidiness and simplicity oi
dress She is invariably associated in my mind
with a high frock, plain collar, and the neateSt
Of neck ribbons bound with the most modest lit
tie brooch in the world. l never knew nice
girl yet who displayed profusion Of rings and
bracelets, or who wore low dresses or a splendid
bonnet nor can ! imagine a nice girl with
curls-but this may be prejudice. am quite
sure, however, that <c0aXers' or c o's, those
funny little curls which it has been the fashion
TO gum upon The check with bandoline-a are to-
tally inconsistent with the character Of nice
girl and If any one whom have been disposed
to regard a nice girl were TO appear with her
bonnet stuck Oh the back Of her head, / should
cease to believe in her from that moment The
only degree Of latitude which feel at all dispo-
sed to allow to my 6e4H ide7l-Or should it be in
this case belle fdeai ?-is kid boots and brass
holes. There is namcess charm about tidy
feet, which believe the whole world reco rniscs.
! maintain that q neatly-booted foot, and a we'll
shaped ankle, in conjunction with a clean. white
pottcoat and tght-httng stocking will nearly
make amends for a squint. Young mon, is 1t not
/ so? Yes. you confess it.
| say again, there is nothing in the world half
so beautiful, half so inhinSically good a nice
girl She is the sweetest flower in the path Of
life. There are others far more stately, far more
/ gorgeous: bat these we merely admire as NC go
by. 1t is where the daisy grows that we lie down
to rest Under every condition, every aspect
nay. that is too cold a word-I love the nice
girl Under every condition. under every as
. pect, save Ouc--that one is matrimOny. When /
hear that one Of the nice girls OF my aCquaiut-
ance is about to be married-ab0ut to be monop-
olized by some Jealous beast with whskers and
an ugly sister to be bridesmaid. ] come over faint
should be written up. as upon gates Of choice gar
dcns-'Do not pick the flowers = Oh! it is hor-
rid, honid. to see the spruce gentleman cone in
and take her away into a corner for the rest of
the evening. ! may not waltz with her now /
may not catch hen at blind mans buff I may not
sit by her and turn over the leaves as she sings
'Auld Robin Gray even though it were Christ
mas time; may not any more kiss her under the
msletoe may not even look at her! There is
that horrd spruce man with whiskcrs glowing at
me as if he would cat me- I sigh as the remem-
brance comes over me Of the many nice girls
who have been ruthlessly torn from me by the
spruce and, am sure, stupid men in whskers--
/ Why are there such things ms spruce men in whS-
kers? | am sure we could get on much better
without them.
! cannot bear to think Of a nice girl getting
married ! cannot contemplate with patience
what she is about to become What is she about
to become She is about to become the slave of
one man in less than year she will wear slop-
py dresses and wrappers in the morning; she will
leave off CATERS, aud her stockings will hang
loose she will lose the bloom in her check and
the merry twinkle in her eye: she will have ba-
by, and smell sour. | say cannot contemplate
this subject with pleasure. | once SISTED one
who had been a nice girl year or two after her
marriage. The figure which she presented
shocked me | could have cried with yexaGon ;
and | am sure ifher husband had come in should
have kicked him. ] have resolved never to go
through such an ordeal again. When nice
girl marries now. have done with her forever.
You may wonder why. since I am such an ad-
mircr Of nice girls ! have never made one my
own--why, in fact, | have never married one. j
have loved, admired, aud sdored them too much
for that. ] could no more marry nice girl
than would wifully trample down a bed OF
flowers. have all my life considered it, aad
still do consider it crime little short of sacri-
lcge to marry nice girl Who but savage
would deface a beautiful piece of sculpture =
Who but a wretch would stand with his back to
the fire and monopolize all the heat? To the
man who attempts to marry nice girl would
say, as Diogenes said to Alexander Get out Of
my SUM-
Marry mice ghln Never know what il
would be. No man is hero to his ualet de cham.
dre, and no husband, am sure is a fine fellow in
his wiie's eyes after she has mended his socks
and put patches in his drawers. On the other
hand | am certain there must be a horrid olsen
chantment about a skimphannel petticoat and a
cotton night cap with fris.
No let the nice girl alone Let her be the
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