The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-01-27

The GUSHING GrRL-In a late number Of
an exchange, we find the following amusing
and well-written article, which we consider
worthy of being reprinted:
If to other women new baby Is a we'll
spring of incoherent pleasure, 10 the gushing
girl I is perfect fountain of idiotic delight,
plunging her into an absolute epilepsy of ad-
miration until she fairly foams at the mouth
with delirious eulogistic nonsense In much
the same spirit she makes Ii q point TO fall
head over ears in love with the fat and rather
uninteresting tenor, and raves wildly about
the handsome but not embarrassingly intel
lectual tragedian, and has photographs of
him in all his principal characters; does her
thinking. or whatever mysterious process
she substitutes for thinking, In the must cx-
aggerated superlatives. She is frank 10
fault, and within an hour after Introduction,
viii have gushed forth to you the entire
story of her woes and disappointments, her
yearnings and aspirations. She Is a weak,
clinging flower, she tells you, torn and
crushed by cruel blasts, and she comes to
you for comfort and protection, which, if she
is pretty, as she not unfrequently is, you are
not 10th to give her. If she sings, il is al
ways some plaintivc little ballad of despair
and death in a minor key, like "a Fair, fair,
with golden hair, under the willow she's
sleeping and she plays occasionally with
much feeling and freedom an etherealized
and very much mixed-up version of the Dead
March in Saul. But she greatly prefers the
harp to the piano, because it is so much
more romantic, and so much more patron
lied by the poets, and because, as she sits BY
il, with back flung eurls and upturned brow,
she has the opportunity of comparing her
self TO st. Cecilia, or to one of those very
wingy musical seraphs of religious art. Low
ers, of course, she has in plenty, because
every one who takes her faney-and every
man does who is at all dark, and has any
pretersion to be considered II good-looking
person-is briskly elevated in her fervid i'm
agination from a desirable and possible to
an actual adorer. Whether he cares for, or
even knows her, is a matter of the purest
indifference; all the same, he serves her pur-
pose of setting the frame whereon she shall
shape her fantastical ideals. When the act
ual lover does come, and the edge is little
worn off the novelty, he finds her not very
different from other girls in a similar predic-
ament, and she is amazed to find the all
important question settled in the most COM
mon-place way imaginable, without single
vow or any allusion to two hearts, etc, or
two souls etc, without SO much as suggest
ing single appropriate quotation. From
this amaZement she never fairly RECEIVERS;
and from the day of her marriage, or, at
itdSt, lTOm the cuu VI HtT honeymoon, 1tr
gushing days may be considered fairly over,
or, at any rate, the disease takes a different
form. On her babes and her husband usually
overflow the surplusagc Of her emotional ut
terances, and moonlight and weeping will
lows are held of very little account That
is, if her marriage be happy; if not, she
commonly develops into that peculiar type
of marital querulousness whose chief joy in
life consists in imparting to the world what
trials ones husband and children are, and
what meek and accomplishing martyr one
is, altogether The gushing girl who doesn't
marry is the amiable old maid whom every
body knows, with spit-curls and the sacred
memory of a lost love. She reads poetry
still, but quotes it less; takes great interest
in the amatory entanglements of her younger
friends, and is, generally, just as jolly and
charming an old maid as one could wish to
have. Take her all in all, from first to last,
the gushing girl is by no means the worst of
girls, and her Unbalanced enthusiasm is GER
tainly preferable TO that well-bred inditfer-
ence which can find time in the midst of
PROF osal to estimate the amount of a lovers
probable income.