The Shasta courier., 1864-01-16
A Nice Girl.

Somebody, who appears to understand and
appreciate the subject, writes the following
chapter on mice girls" Though by no
means extinct, still the class is not near so
numerous as might be wished
There is nothing half so sweet in life.'
so beautiful or delightful. or so loveable as
nice girl Not q pretty or dashing or
an elegant girl. but nice girl. One of
those lovely, Lively, good hearted, sweet
faced, amiable, neat, natty, domestic erea-
lures met within the sphere of home. diff
fusing around the influence of her goodness,
like the essence of sweet flowers.
A nice girl is not the langushing beauty.
dawdling on sofa, and discussing the last
novel or opera or the giraffe-like creatures
sweeping maJestically through the drawing
room. The nice girl may not even dance or
play well, and knows nothing about using
her eyes, or coquetting with fan. She
never languishesI; she is too active. She is
not given to sensation novels, she is too bu.
sy. AT the opera she is not in front. showing
her shoulders, but sits quiet and unobtrusive
at the back Of the box, most likely, In
fact, 1t Is not often in such scenes we discov-
er her. Home is her place,
Who rises betimes, and superintends the
morning meal? Who makes the toast, and
the tea, and buttons the boys shirts, and
waters the flowers. and feeds the chickens.
and brightens up tie parlor and sitting
room Is it the languisher, the giraffe or
the elegante9 Not bit of it; it's the nice
girl.
Her unaided toilet is made in the shortest
possible time, yet how charmingly it is done.
and how elegantly her neat dress and plain
collar! What kisses she distributes among
the family not presenting cheek or a brow
like fine girl but an audible smack. which
says plainly, love you ever so much. :
If | ever coveted anything, it is one of the
nice girls kisses.
Breakfast over, down in the kitchen to see
about dinner; and all day long she is up and
down, always cheerful and light hearted
She never ceases to be active and useful un-
til the day is gone, when she will polka
with the boys, singing old songs, and play
old tunes to her father, for hours together
She is a perfect treasure is the nice girl
When illness comes, it is she that attends
with unWearing patience to the sick chamber,
there is no risk, no fatigue, that she will 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
fair hands.
One of the most strongly marked charac-
teristics of a nice girl is the tidiness and
simplicity of dress. She is invariably asso-
ciated in my mind with high frock, plain
collar and the neatest of neck ribbons, bound
with the most modest little brooch in the
world. / never knew a nice who dis
played profusion of rings and bracelets, or
who wore low dresses, or splendid bon.
net.
say agar, there is nothing in this world
half so beautiful, half so intrinsically good |
as a nice girl She is the sweetest flower
in the path of life. There are others far
more stately, far more gorgeous; but these
we merely admire as we 90 by. 1t is where
the daisy grows that we lie down to rest.