The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1870-09-14

has in general the most profound
aversion to boys. To be sure, she
may have her fayorites-yery few
and very seldom |; but she mostly
thinks item stupid or conceited.
| and resents impartially either their
awkward attentions to herself or
tlleir assumptions Of sunerior;tv
An abnormally clever boyLt6e
Poet.I .aureate or George Steven.
son of his peneration-is her de.
testation, because he il odd and
| unlike every one else and the one
that she loves best among them Is
the school hero. who ia first i'm the
| sports and takes all the PRICES. and
WHO goes through life loved by ey-
cry one, and never famous. For
her several brothers she has a
range of entirely different feelings.
der Younger school.boy brothers
she regards MS the torinenss of her
existence, whose unkempt hair.
dirty boots, and rude manners. are
her special crosses, to be borne
with patience. tempered by an 40.
tive endeavor after reform. But
| the more advanced, and these who
are older than herself, are her low
ers, for whom she has or, enthusi.
astic admiration, and whose future
she believes in as something spe-
cially brilliant and successful.
Great fact is required with
Sweet Seventeen in such society as
is allowed, Care is taken to bring
her out without obtruding her on
the world, of making her forward
and consequential, and without at
tracting too much attention to her.
She is no longer child to be shut
away in The nursery, but she is not
yet entitled to the place and con-
sideration of member of So
cIety. And yet it would be
cruel to debar her wholly from
all that is going on in the house.
10 be sure there is the governess
as well as mamma, to look after
her manners, and to give her rope
enough and not too much {; but by
the time a girl is seventeen, a gov
erness has ceased to be the anto-
crat eD cbScao, and she obeys her
or not, according to their respec-
tive strengths. Still, the governess
or mamma is tor the most part at
ner elbow; and Sweet Seventeen,
II well oroughttup is left very lit
t,e TO her own guidance, and sees
the world only through balfopen-
ed doors: Girls OF this age are Of
ten wonderfully sad, and full of q
kind or wondering despair at the
Sill ana misery they are learning
70 Know. They take up extreme
views in religion, and talk largely
on the nothingness Of pleasure,
anG the emptiness of the world !;
and many fair young creatures
whom their elders, laden with sor-
rowful experience, think full of
hope and JOY, are ready to give up
all the pleasure OF life, and to lay
down lie itself, for the very dis
gust OF that of which they know
noth'ng. They delight in sorrow.
f''l lamentations and sentimental
regrets put into rhyme, and one Of
the funniest things in the world is
to see a girl dancing with the mer.
ricss IN the evening, and to hear
her talking Observation-Disclosures in
the morning. 1t is merely an ex.
ample OF the old proverb about
the meeting OF extremes-vacuity
leacing 10 the same results as ex.
perience. But however she takes
this unknown life, it is always in
an unrcai and romantic aspect
some 1l more robust mind delight
~ m .ne oo'aer stories OF Greece and
c1.' anu ".sheo they had play
81 u par 10 tue sensational hero
'en' vi tnose grand OLD times, while
~ ~o'ners go 10 venice ana make PIC
;uses ; M .or , ,nenhseiVes OUT OF the gid
,"s s'oo'as Is ana me mysterious
Oh len Ina IOVaIU InhInl