Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-14
More About Girls.


Girls are often wild, wayward and
hard to govern. They give their
anxious mothers and fond fathers
many serious hours of thought and
care. They principally delight in
having their own way. They are i'm
patient under home restraints, and
they frequently fancy that they
know a great deal more than their
mothers do. They giggle and act
very foolish sometimes-when any
thing 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 displeasures;
and they resort to tears and find a
great deal of comfort in a good cry
when the world does not move upon
its axis exactly in conformity to their
wishes. .e. 5t4iE zAl ur
They are very romantic In regard
to their expectations of the future.
They have an uncomfortable passion
tor cheap, sensational literature, and
they usually entertain about as usual
and exaggerated ideas of life as they
find pictured and described in the
startling nara, ives which they are in
the habit of reading. They look
forward to find themselves in the
same impossible situations as the i'm
aginary heroines, whose checkered
career they follow with such thrilling
interest, anxiety and enthusiasm.
They condescend sometimes to flatter
and firt with the tender-hearted and
confding youths of their acquaint-
ance who, at an early age, are so un-
fortunate as to feel that
'.The rosy boy with a cherub wing,
Has many shaft for his slender sling y
The girls, somehow, seem to de-
light in tormenting and teasing such
bows, nor appear to feel one atom OF
pity or compassion 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 more redicu.
lous picture than that of an old man,
with hair and whiskers freshly and
ingeniously dyed, vainly endeavor.
ing to conceal the fact that he has
the rheumatism, frisking about like
a Young colt in a green pasture, il
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 OBJ
legations never to tell what they hear
to anybody else. How we'll they
obey these mutual injunctions is eV.
ident from their subsequent course
of conduct. If you would sow Sc
cret broad cast over the land, tell ii
to a young girl, and make her prom.
ise religiously to keep it.
A girl becomes complete CIR
only when she does up her hair in
mature fashion and gets her first
long dress on. Then she sails out
into the beau monde with a great
many lofty and supercilious airs
and fancies that she is a full fedged
woman.
But, with all their failings and
shortcomings, girls are lovely.
lively and interesting 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 oul
best and ioveliest women; and no.
bic woman is Gods greatest and
grandest earthly creation!