Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-10
Precoctous Girls.

An old fashioned notion that IN, si,,,i.s,
plan Is TO bring all the yoang people together.
be complete failure. This vs. not AT ali what
is expected, and even their parents are Dis
appointed with the haSco. That an elahorat.
toilette should end I'm blind mans blue IL
intoerable; and SO a children's party only
differs from iull-dress hall i'm the hight of the
dancers. The little lady starts for her nights
the cares of maturity early on her mind. lest
her card should not be filled up I'm the evening
she reproduces the talk OF her mothers bou-
9olr In the ball room-and can cuticiSe tho
dress OF her yisayiS after the best models OF
WeHbred disparagement. She distinguishes
between The dreamy pleasures of a waltz and
shows the attractions of a supper SET and
can nlrt with an air of ingenue simplicity
Sar aid asHs suggeSt very valuable hints to
square dances, knows that her dress NAV get
torn In the last figure of a LanceTS and
nndS S,.,S one OF The bores of dancing a
quadrilie' Is, that the figures are ALWAYS
changing. With sedulous care she keens her
programs, and of malice prepense is able To
lose her pocket handkerchief. She is quite i'm
TO fthe method by which an undesirahle
partner may be cOurteouSy avoided. and il
careful TO see how gentleman dances before
she pc rmfts his autograph on her card When
the evening Is over, she knows she has utilized
her time, and has engaged herself three or
Tour deep Tor the next children'S ball at some
nelFhbor's house. A dance in January is not
loIeolleh In the ensuing month, and her cor
reSpondence on the 18th of February has refer
ence 10 some remembered event in the nights
entertainment. She has fine contempi Tor.
her own brothers, and with characteriSt}c nra
cCclty, Affects terror of school bows general
~, but hnds herself quite equal to sustain pro-
lonGcd conversation with her elder sisters al
mller. That worshiper having at last. with
drawn 10 the more appropriate shrine of his
devotion; She admits to a subsequent partner
mat all the time she was bored. There can he
she says no real pleasure in talking 10 an en-
gagged man. May Fair.
BRAlNS-CaSes of cerebral hyperamia from
excessive intellectual eNertion are frequently
met with IN The young, whose mental powers
are oyertaNed before their brains are sufficient
ly developed. A growing brain needs IN ms
band its powers for the normal formative pro-
ceSseS OF The cerebral organization The blood
which circuateS in its substance is charged
win no more pabulum than Is sufficient for
this growth and for such mental labor as will
aid IN strengthening the various faculties Of
the mind and If il he consumed i'm the nro.
ductlon OF force beyond these requirements
disease Is the necessary consequence. Cases
of the kind, in young men and women who are
STRIVING 10 cram their minds with numerous
studies, are oil almost daily observation.
The doctor takes occasion from his pro-
feSSlonal experience to press this point
especially against close application 10 mathe-
NAUTICAL studies by growing girls But the
worst case he reports from his own practice is
that OF youth of the harder sex. The same
genera lesson is enforced by DIR. Richardson,
OF London, who says the crOwding of artificial
information upon children either gives rise to
direct disease Of the brain itself, or induces
weakness and exhaustion of the mental organs,
with lrregularity of power. The child NAV
grow up with memory taxed with technicals
and impressed so foTcibly that il is hard 10
make way for other knowledge; and add to
these miSchiefS there may be, and often is, the
further evil that the brain, owing to the labor
put on IT, becomes too fully and easily deyeI-
oped, too hIm and too soon mature, so that it
remains throughout manhood a large chid's
brain, very wonderful i'm a child and equally
ridiculous In man or woman.-[ Dr.. HdTi-
mORd.