New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-07
THE "J0LLY GIRLV IN ENGLAND.
Eram rhe PaR llaR Ga:e,le.

Fr9m The PoH foH GG-cHe.
The women who copy the WAYS OF men al best
succeed la resembling boys. The special habits
and interests of men, their athletic and sporting
tastes their melancholy experience OF what Is
called life can 30 more be appropriated ~ gu
than our tOpboots and rdng-breechcs. She only
approaches that unnatural monster, the boy who IS
apng a man. am not 30 old or snch misanthTOPe
hut that find myself at times among young people
at n dance or a garden party. | see a handsome
young fellow from Aldcrshot talking to fine gIr,
the picture of youth and grace They are Hurting,
| hope, rs they should be- says match ma KING
old thing Flirting, my dear lady, he has been
telling her about that awuily Jolly run with tie
Qnorn, don't You know. And now she is asking
him with anxious look II 1t Is really true tbat
No. Is not it, For an hour, as sat within hear
inc on the bench, she has patiently committed to
memory the merits OF bariack after barrack ana
station after station-a form of feminine curiosity
which he has but languidly satisfied. though he
has no other topic with winch 10 entertain her
" Alder>hot" SAYS he is such an awinlly jolly
Mace don't YOU know" I" Is il really " says she,
with feeling. mean says he, such Jolly
place to get away from" And she knows who Is
bound to win the mile race unless Jlgger Mowbray
can stand the training. which Is not to be thought
Of don't you know. And so they 90 on. from
mere habit, talking the talk OF the smokIng-rOOn,
or so much of IT can lie drbbed into the ears OF
n pnre Young girl. BY all that is sacred. glow
with shame when see a beautiful woman thus put
on her sex, when she certainly can never put on
WHAT are they to gain. these favortcs Of the regi
mcnt and the hunt. that they thu, ininbie lncih-
selves that they 80 dSligurc and weary themselves
i'm labOriOns.y ceasing 10 be women! 1t - not bus
bands. assufcdly. they are seeking. Our young
friend from Aldcrshot does not trouble himself to
mir with girls he has not ;hc rrmOtcst idea OF mar
ragr: nor indeed. has his tar partner, at least
with the like OF him. She Is not thinking Of Easel
mating him at all; would, indeed. that she were .
Marriage is an affair Of carriages and horses Tor
these ,he must look 90 older men. ana She docs not
like older men. NO she Is only hllug her ap
pointed part-the awuily Jolly gll which her
society expects her to be. Dolly ana Darling, judy
and Jo. have f. do 1t. aud 80 must she.
wonder ii she know, how lIttie men really care
trr.N In b IA "a
frll ow this girl with her manly requirements just
30 Al cca>cs TO he woman lthOut advancing step
toward man. She listens 10 hlm ~ the tag at school
listens 90 the big fellow ~ the boat or tAe eleven
If is pleasant to him that the Young uu wcal
skirts aud has lips ruddlcr than lag. II Is pleas
ant to HIM; but not wholly to rs elders ana
fathers.
Grl, in my time expected rs to treat them on the
assumption That they we're women. or mat thcN
very soon would DE-. II we couil h,i entertain am
them ~ women an the world over love TO be enter
tanned thcy turned 10 one another ara amused
themselves " zen We sat with a sweet young
thing in the VeTandah as the band played the last
note, of Kathleen N1VOUrueon we mad some
thing vow 20 talk about besides cricket Neras cs
the club cigars. and the right rus of bulldogs
ears. AMI ~ We never saw cigarettes n the lips OF
our rariner~. Il never occurred 90 as TO smoke be
have no inrn for satire: but love to watch our
social moods aud to trace them to their causes and
effects. ] suppose the worl, began with chat wave
OF athleticism which f late has swept over abe
land turning the heads of not "a few lads and I'M
portin some laugha3le customs; but. II ITS effect
upon men WIS more Or less manly ard wholesome,
lis effect indirectly on women was pcrnds more
doubtful gain. " hen tine gymnasilc idol was set
up and the muscular type Oi virtue became the
whole duty Ot mai, there were found LngSh girls
To suppose II the whole duty o. woman. Phys
ically il may De, IL STRENGTHENED those Om II did
not slaughter outright. But rs lhe girl could after
all only Join in the new worship rs pIosclytc Of
fine cate she fell into the social position of
the" lower school" at cricket match. The
Jolly girl, in fact. became a Tag. hen aih-
Ieics are tn. business o. lie the tone Of society
naturally set b. men.
Was not a second cause at work in the trumphs
of the famous American beauty This fascinating
being. ! doubt not on her own side Of the Atlantic
has planted the germs Of new feminine cpOchs.
There was nothing Of The playground az hunt ahout
her: her important discovery was the freedom OF
her sex. II may be doubted II our ancient system
on this side OF the ocean Is duly prepared Tor such
DASH such originality. such angelic scli-possessOn.
The type. However brilliant. j. peIilOuS one 10
ADAPT For the American girl. who 50 startlr' as nj
home has her own traditions and habits " hen
she shook from her airy skirts the conventions OF
the Old World. she founded the conventions OF the
New. At home she reignS still, and imposes her
law on men. concerning herself but little about
mrss-rooms and gnn-cluhs Young ladies. you VINO
think OF adoptiug her adorable freedom of manner,
be sure that you also adopt her shre~d and original
spirit
Bat be the causes whatever they may. the result
is a curious social inversion. The relative place Of
men and women is reversed % THIS rapid and daI-
ling world. OF old. the idea was that in things
social thc woman was mistress queen and leader.
Ncn in hey presence were 10 study her tastes ana
submit TO her law. II They could not exist without
tobacco they might go elsewhere: II they wanted
10 be- killing something to shooting party; aud
tine matches discussed in a drawng-rOom had
nothing TO do with Lords.