National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-03-04
MORE ABOUT Girls,

Urls are often wild, maynard and hard 10
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 impatient under home ne
straints, and they frequently fancy that they
know 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 unfor-
tunate enough to incur their youthful displeas-
ures; anil they resort to tears and find q great
deal OF comfort in good cry when the world
docs not move upon lis axis exactly in conform
ity with their wishes.
They are very romantic with regard to their
expectations Of the future. They have an un-
confroliable passion for cheap, sensational lit
erature, and they usually entertain about as
unreal and exaggerated ideas of life as they
find pictured and described in the startling mar
ratiyes which they are I'm the habit of reading.
They look forward to find themselves in the
same impossible situations as the imaginary
heroincs, whose chequered careers they follow
with such thrilling interest, anxiety and en-
thusiasm. They condescend sometimes to fat
ter and firt with the tender-hearted and con-
iding youths Of their acquaintance who, at an
''Tho rosy boy with cheru5 wing
Has many shaft for his slender sling!"
The girls, somehow, seems to delight in tor
mcntiBg and teasing such boys, nor appear to
feel one atom of pity or compassion for what
these tender youths suffer and endure by rea-
son of hopclessly loving them.
Girls sometimes make old and gray-headed
men say and do 2 great many foolish and un-
dignified things. Such inst ances are not un-
common. Apd who can fancy q more redicu-
lous picture than that of an old man, with hair
and whiskers freshly and Enormously dyed,
vainly endcavoring to conceal the fact that he
has the rheumatism, fristing around Ike q,
young colt in green pasture, in futile endeay-
ors 10 pursuade some young girl of sweet six
teen that he is as young as ever he was!
Girls are very communicative with each
other. They arc in the habit of talking over,
between themselves, all their joys and sor-
rows-enjoining upon each other the most
solemn obligations never to tell what they hear
TO anybody else. How well they obey these
mutual injunctions is evident from their subse-
quent course of conduct. If you would SOW 3
secret broadcast over the land, tell it to .
young girl, ard make her promise to religiously
keep It.
A Girl becomes q complete girl only when
she does up her hair in mature fashion and gets
her first long dress on. Then she sails out into
the 6eda monde with great many lofty and
supcrcilious airs, and fancies that she is full
hetiged woman.
But, with all their faflings and shortcom-
ings, girls are a lovely, lively and interesting
institution. The world we 1--we in Is great
deal brighter, better and more beautiful for
their being In It. When grown to perfect ma
turity they make our best and loyeliest women;
and noble woman is Gods greatest and
grandest earthly creation!