Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-02-16
Saoies' Department..
ABOUT GIRLS.

Girls are often wild, Maynard, aud
hard to govern. They give their anxious
mothers and fond fathers many serious
hours of thought and care. They prin-
cipally delight'in having their own way
they are impatient under home restraints
and they frequently fancy that they
know a great deal more than their moth
ers do.
They giggle and act very foolish some
times, when anything happens to please
them. They pout and make up faces
when they feel cross and uncomfortable,
or when any one is unfortunate enough
to incur their youthful displeasure, and
they resort to tears and find a great deal
of comfort in good cry when the world
does not move upon its axis exactly in
conformity with their wishes.
They are very romantic with regard
to their expectations of the future. They
have an uncomfortable passion for cheap
sensational literature, and they usually
entertain about as unreal and exagger-
ated ideas of life as they find pictured
and described in the startling narratives
which they are in the habit of reading
They look forward to find themselves in
the same impossible situations as the
imaginary heroines, whose chequered
careers they follow with such thrilling
interest, anxiety and enthusiasm.
They condescend. sometimes, to fatter
and firt with the tender-hearted and
confding youths of their acquaintnce,
who at an early age are so unfortunate
as to feel that.
The rosy boy with cherub wing
Has many shaft for his slender slng,"
The girls somehow seem to delight in
tOrmenting and teasing such boys, nor
appear to feel one atom of pity or CON-
passion for what these tender youths
suffer and endure by reason of hopelessly
loving them.
Girls sometimes make old and gray
headed men say and do great many
foolish and undignifed things. Such
instances are not uncommon, and who
can fancy a more ridiculous picture than
that of an old man, with hair and whis.
kers freshly and ingeniously dyed, vain.
ly endeayoring to conceal the fact that
he has the rheumatism, frisking around
like a young colt in a green pasture, il
futile endesvors to persuade some young
girl of sweet sixteen that he is as young
as ever he was.
Girls are very communicative with
each other. They are in the habit Of
talking over between themselves all their
joys and SORROWS, enjoining upon each
other the most solemn obligations never
to tell what they hear to anybody else
how well they obey these mutual injunc.
tons, is evident from their subsequent
course of conduct If you would SOW q
secret broadcast over the land, tell it t.
a young girl, and make her promise t.
religiously keep it.
A girl becomes complete girl only
when she does up her back hair in ma
ture fashion, and gets her long dress on
Then she sails out into the beau monde
with a great many lofty and supercil
ious air, and fancles that she is a full
fledged woman.
But with all their failing5 and short
comings, girls are a lovely, lively anc
interesting institution. The world W,
live in is great deal brighter, bettel
and more beautiful for their being in it
When grown to perfect maturity they
make our best and lovliest women, anC
a noble woman is Gods greatest anc
grandest earthly creation.