The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-23
About Girls.

Girls ars often wild, ,wayward and 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 inpatient under some restraints,
and they frequently fancy that they
know a great deal more than their
mothers 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 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 for 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 flatter
and flirt with the tender-hearted and
confiding youths of their acquaintance,
who at an early age are so unfortunate as
to feel that
"The rosy boy with cherub wing
Has many shaft for his slender slins!"
The girls somehow seem to delight in
tormenting and teasing such boys, nor
appear to feel one atom of pity or COM
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 a great many
foolish and undignified things. Such in
stances are not uncommon, and who can
fancy a more ridiculous picture than that
of an old man, with hair and whiskers
freshly and ingeniously dyed, vainly en-
deavoring to conceal the fact that be has
the rheumatism, frisking around like a
young colt in a green pasture, in futile
endeavors 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 we'll they obey these mutual in
functions is evident from their subsequent
course of conduct. If you would sow a
secret broadcast over the land, tell it to
young girl, and make her promise to
religiously keep it.
A girl becomes complete girl only
when she does up her back hair in mature
fashion, and gets her first long dress on.
Then she sails out into the beau monde,
with great many lofty and supercilious
airs, and fancies that she is full-fledged
woman.
But with all their failings and short
comings, girls are lovely, lively and in
teresting institution. The world we live
in is a great deal brighter, better and
more beautiful for their being in it.
When grown to perfect maturity they
make our best and lovelicst women, and
a noble woman is Gods greatest and
grandest earthly creation.