The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-01-20
From the Gin. Chronicle Of Jan. r..
OLIVE LOGAN ON GIRLS.
A TIT BIT FOR THE LADIES

OLIVE LOGAN ON GIRLS.
A TIT BIT FOR THE LADIES.
Olive Logan talked about girls to agl
audience of between five and six hun
dred persons at Pixies Hall, Thursday
night. AS a talker, we think Miss
Logan proved herself a success. She
has an easy, off hand way of saying
what occurs to her to say without
hemming or halting. She succeeded at
the outset in establishing very pleas
ant relations between herself and her
audience.
She made her appearance at the
ante-rOOm door just twelve minutes af-
ter the time appointed for her lecture
She was elegantly attired in a walking
dress of heavy black silk, with full
panier overskirt. The skirt was with
out trimming, except a wide rufie
around the bottom, headed with broad
silk ribbon. She wore a black velvet
basque waist with high neck and long
sleeves, from underneath which at
throat and wrists,appeared handsome
lace collar and cuffs. Her hair was
trimmed in the latest style, full chate.
laine braid chignon, slight rolls OF
puffs in front, and Ornamented with a
broad cOrOnet of gold. Long earrings,
a solitaire diamond on her left hand, a
chain bracelet on one wrist, and neat
gold watch chain, to which it is reas'
enable to suppose a tiny time-keepel
was attached, composed her display Of
jewelry.
Her lecture consisted of an off hand
discussion of the customs and capabili
ties of six classes of girls-the fashion.
able, the beautiful, the womanly, the
Yankee, the Western, and the strong
minded girls. She said there were
two other classes she would like tC
talk about if she had time: the good
girls who come to her lectures, anC
the bad girls who don't come.
ABOUT FASHIONABLE GIRLS.
Miss Logan said:
There is a great mystery involved ir
the question, "What are fashionable
girls made OFF" There are two kinds
of fashionable girls. The one is a fash
ionable girl who is fashionable anC
nothing else; who has but one idea
and that is-dreSs. The other is {
fashionable girl, who, in addition t.
/ her fashionable taste and habits, ha.
some degree of real character, some ev
idence of heart, mind and soul. The
ultra fashionable girl is a bundle of ar
tificialities, oddities, vanities, airs, va
pidities and pretenses, with just as lit
tie of the original, natural girl under
meath them as it is possible to con
ceive. 1t is this girl who has cast {
stigma upon all elegant attire, anC
caused the absurd prejudice which ex
lists with so many people, that any cir
who dresses fashionably must neeessa
rily be a fool.
The other girl, who IS fashionable
and something else, has brains, and {
heart, and her place in life is the re
suit of her birth and education. Sucl
girl feels the emptiness of a fashion
able life in the silence Of her chamber
She often asks herself if life has moth
ing in it of real earnestness for her
She despises the dawdIing dandie
whose mental requirements consist 0
fattering phrases, and nothing else
and she sharpens her wits at their ex
pense. This fashionable girl general,
has some pet hobby, which she ride
with a gallantry and zest which show
how useful. she might be if her ener
gies were only directed into noble
channels. But it is prerequisite tina
her hobby shall not be questionable
I know of no better outlet for the en-
thusiastic energies of this class of fash
ionable girls than that which is afford
ed by the Woman's Rights movement
I aim to enlist the active sympathy 0
this class. In private circles they ar
arguing in behalf of WOman's rights
Iaughingly, it may be, with a pretens
of playful satire, but none the less ei
fectively for that, for they will event
ually talk the same doctrine in earn
est. Once let the Woman's Right
movement be recognized by the fash
ionable world, and from that day it
success is assured.