Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-04-28
Gentle Girls.

We extract from the Philadelphia Bulletin the
following article we'll expressed upon expressive
ly sweep topic for the perusal of our more gentle
readers, and concur with the writer that there is
nothing half so sweet in life" half so beautiful,
half so delightful or loveable upon this rude num-
dane sphere as a genuine good and gentle girl
Not pretty. dashng, elegant girl, but nice,
tidy girl one of those lovely lively, good-temper-
ed, good-hearted, sweet-faced amiabe, neat natty,
domestic obedient unselfish creatures met within
the home circle dIfusng around the ingleside, the
influence Of her goodness, like the perfume of some
modest flower just newly blown:
"A nice girl is not the languishng beauty, drawl-
ing on sofa and discussing the last novel or opera;
the giraffe-lke creature sweeping majestically
through drawing-ropm. The nice girl may not
even dance or play we'll and knows nothing about
"using her eyes" or coquetting with a fan. She
never languishes; she's too active. She is not Civ
en- to sensation she is too busy. At the opera,
she is not in 'front.' showing her bare shoulders but
sits quiet and unobrusve-a at the back of the box,
most likely. In fact it is not often in such scenes
that we discover her. Home is her place
Who rises betimes, and superintends the morning
meals? Who makes the toast, and the tea, and
buttons the boys shirts and waters the flowers, and
feeds the chickens, and brightens up the paror and
the sittng-room? Is it the languisher, or the gi-
raffe, or the elegante? Not bit of it; it is the
nice girl.
Her unaded toilet is made in the shortest possible
time, yet how charmingly it is done, and how ele-
CANT her neat dress and plain collar! What hearty
kisses s.. distributes among the family no pre-
senting vi cheek or brow like the fine girl" but
an audible smack which says plainly, al love you
ever so much" If ever coveted anything, it is
one of the nice girls kisses.
Breakfast over, down into the kitchen to about
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ways doing, and always cheerful and light hearted.
She 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 She is perfect treasure, is the
"Tilce girl" When illness comes, it is she that
attends with unwearying patience the sick chamber.
There is risk, fatigue that she will not under
go; no sacrifice that she will not make. She is all
love, all devotion. I have often thought that it
would be happiness to be ILL., to be watched by such
loving eyes and tended by such fair hands
One of the most strongly marked characteristics
Of "hice girl is tidiness and simplicity of dress
She is invariably associated in my mind with high
frock plain collar, and the neatest of neck rib
bons, bound with the most modest little brooch in
the world | never knew "nice girl" vet who
displayed a profusion of rings and bracelets, or
who were low dresses or splendid bonnet
say again, there is nothing in the world half so
beautiful, half so ntrinsicay good, as nice girl"
There others far stately far more gorgeous;
but these We merely admire we go by. 1t is
where the daisy grows that we lie down to rest.