The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-05
THE BROOKLYN GIRL.
Clara Belle says she is Slangy and 0utre,

i took a real, out-anu-0ut Brooklyn
girl with me to the Academy of Music
there, says Clara Belle. She was so
different a creation from anything | was
used to in New York that, not having
met her for long time, | fell to study
ing her. liked her because she was
evidently well meaning and good heart
ed and independent every girl of them
is absolutely independently and because
she dressed in such dull colors, If you
are at all dressy yourself it's always
pleasant to have a Brooklyn or Phila-
delphia girl fora companion. They are
so excessively afraid of pronounced col.
ors that they are pretty sure to make n
contrast that is favorable to yourself.
But she was frightfully slangy. ! ac-
tually had to ask her several times what
she meant by things she said. We got
in with a car load of Brooklyn girls, and
it struck me that they acted as if they
owned the railroad, but | suspended
judgment until saw in theatre full OF
them that they behavedin the same way
there. They all seemed to know one
another, and they made themselves per-
fectly at home, and seemed to be say.
ing, 1.-The whole city is for us, and we
know it," and, to be strictly naturaland
true to my subject, | ought to add that
they all seemed to say, And don't you
forget it." They were not particularly
ill-bred or rude. 1t was all quiet and
feminine enough, but yet this was what
their confident manner, free and frank
tones and speech conveyed to my mind.
And my companion told me as Il posi-
tive fact that as soon as ayoung woman
quits school and enters society she be.
comes the mistress of her father house,
and never afterward acknowledges
parental control in her affairs. The
parlor is hers, and her mother AND father
come to her and ask permission before
hand to entertain company in it, The
daughter has for callers whoever she
likes, and they come and go as she
pleases, never being introduced to her
parents unless she happens to choose to
present them. She stays at home, or
she dimes out, or she spendsa night now
and then with girl companion, at her
own sweet will, Her company, "as they
call sweetheart over there, stays until
midnight, and, perhaps makes rule of
doing so, and her parents hear of her en-
gagement from her companions. some
times, sooner than from herself. My
companion seemed amazed that should
see anything extraordinary in this, and
laid it down as a rule worth observing
that IF girls going to be woman
and have charge of her own house, the
sooner she learns how to take care Of
herself the better"
n My companion belonged to as many
clubs as young German in Berlin
She said it was the fashion in Brooklyn
for women to meet together great deal
at one another's house, and that out of
this custom have grown the singing
clubs, dramatic clubs, lawn-tennis clubs
archery clubs, cooking clubs, walking
clubs, driving clubs, bowling clubs,
and don't know what all that she
mentioned and said she was a member
Of When she saw how Interested was
in all she was able to think Of about
Brooklyn she broke out with this rather
surprising exclamation:
- hope you like thesway we do, fol-
we are New York girls about half of our
time. All summer long, and whenever
else we 60 away from home, we all OF
us always say we're from New York.
Our fathers and brothers are there in
business, you know, and everybody
knows New York, and altogether it,
much easier and pleasanter to say We
come from there than to go explaining
all about Brooklyn and-and-well
Beecher."