The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-02-27
ABOUT GIRLS.

Girls are often wild, way and
hard to govern They give their
anxious mothers and fond fathers ma
ny serious hours of thought and care.
They principally delight in having
their own way; they are impatient
under home restraints, and they fire.
quently fancy that they know a great
deal more than their mothers do.
They giggle and act very foolish
sometimes, 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 displeaiurc, and they resort
to tears and find great deal of com
fort in a 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 un-
real aud exaggerated ideas oflife 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
impossible situations as the magma
ry heroines, whose chequered careers
they follow with such thrilling inter
est, anxiety and enthusiasm.
They condescend, sometimes to
hatter and hirt with the tender heart
ed and copfding youths of their &C
quaintance, who at an early age are
so unfortunate as to feel that
"The rosy boy with a cherub wing
Has mauy shaft for his slender sling y
The girls somehow seem to delight
in tormcnting and teasing such boys,
nor appear to feel one atom Of pity
or compassion for what these tender
youths suffer and endure by reason
of hopelessly loveinS them.
Girls sometimes make old and gray
headed men say and do a great many
foolish and undignifed things.
Such instances are not uncommon,
and who can faucy more ridiculous
picture than that Of all old man, with
hair aud whiskers freshly and ingeni-
ously dyed, vainl y endeavoring to
conceal the fact that he has the rheu-
matism, frisking around like a Dung
colt ia a green pasture, in futile en-
deavors to persuade some young girl
of sweet sixteen that he is as young
as he 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 well they
obey these mutual injunctions, is evil
dent from their subsequent course of
conduct If You would SOW secret
broadcast the land, tell it TO a young
girl, and make her promise to religi-
ouSIy keep it.
A girl becomes complete girl on
| ly when she does up her back hair
in mature fashion, and gets her
first long dress on. Then she sails
into the beau monde, with great
many lofty and Supercillious airs,
and fancies that she is full-Aedged
woman.
But with all their failings and
shortcomings, girls are lovely,
lively and interesting institution =
The world we 1--we 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 loveiest women, and noble
woman is Gods greatest and grand
est earthly creation.