The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-08-05
THE GIRLS OF THE DAY.

The young ladies who had their COM
mencement at Andover, the other day,
began life we'll. BY mutual agreement
the wearing of bracelets. pins, rings
and other trinkets was discarded by
the graduates, and the example was
followed by many ladies present. That
graduating class will get on well in
life. The girl who possesses the moral
courage to abstain from the wearing of
finery on so capital an opportunity for
display rs commencement day, is girl
to be respected. Fortunately, in fash
ionable life, the present style inclines
toward the wearing of but little jewell
ry, and il is bat the ignorant Of the
nouVed,r riches who haunt trinkets.
The Andover girls, therefore, may
have been only ultra fashionable after
all but yet they sh1uld receive all
credit possible for having resisted
temptation and displayed common
sense Hudson Register.
Now this is quite foolish. If there
is a duty which is imperatively neces-
sary to young lady it is to look as
pretty as she can on any and every
occasion, and if she carries this duty
to the period of gray hairs and grand
children so much the better. Jewelry,
moreover, is a necessity to young Ia
dies-it is made of things of beauty
which are joys forever. 1t may cost
twenty-five cents, and perhaps these
figures carried into the thousands; but
it is invariably worn gracefully, it is
always placed where it belongs, ard it
never fails to "set off" its wearer so as
to make her prettier, more graceful,
we'll satisfied with herself and more
satisfactory to others. And the harm
of jewelry, so one can afford it-always
supposlng that? There is nothing in
it, whatever the venerable preacher
and the dried apples principally men.
toned as cid maids may say. There
have been times when it was sinful for
girl to grace her head with what was
known, we believe, as a spit-curl.
There have been others when q rose on
the breast of young lady was regard
ed as Indicative of false pride. There
are places to-day which hold that a
girl doesn't dance with hole in her
stocking is aristocratic and puts on
airs. There are others which sneer at
the young lady who follows the fash
ions and the dictates of her own soul
sufficiently to appear in public with
her stockings gracefully gartered and
her whole appearance indicating neat
ness and beauty, not to say happiness.
1t is all nonsense, ladies and gentle
men. Girls will be girls, and the Lord
made them they ought to be. They
like trinkets and what the puritan
fathers and mothers were wont to call
gew-gaws, and they have a right to
them. They yearn for curls and rib
bons, and bits of lace, q watch and
chain, and above everything else for
rings with diamonds in them. They
ought to have them. They want to be
beautiful, and they like to be attired
gracefully; and when these yearnings
cease we know of several gentlemen
who will bid the world adieu because
it is full of dirt and slatterns, women
whose chief ambition it is to talk and
to work their way through life with
arms akimbo. Girls, we expect, must
continue to be girls. This is necessary
TO the marriage state, not to mention
a sweet peace. They must have their
jewelry to the full extent of their
means. They must have curls if they
wish them, and they must not be ex-
pected to comb their hair soberly back
and become old women at the age of
sixteen. The supposition, brethren
and sisters, is preposterous. If we
had girl who was an old woman at
that age, we should tell her to 90 up
to the nineties with exceeding haste,
and come down to youth in the wrong
way and be somebody. After all, if
there is premature angel in this
world it is a romping girl. One of
those girls who like fun in any limo.
cent shape and neither ape dignity nor
are afraid of it. The girl whose hair
is forever floating about her eyes who
runs off somewhere and everywhere
with her shawl half off; who hooks
her mothers sunbonnet, or when press
ed for time adopts Brother Bob's straw
hat; who has not the thought for the
morrow that she has for a new string
of beads; who is always in a hurry,
and who never thinks of walking be-
cause it is so much better to bound
and time it so limited. In other words,
fig for the Andover girlS,and whole
hnx of ra isins for tho ofbar and Al n