The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-02-17
The Model Young Lady.

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described as being ''sweet as May flow
ers'-"timid as gazelle blooming as
a peach '-"pure as the morning dew
constant as a love bird model
young lady is all this and much more
Mark the distinction, we say model"
not modern" The model Young lady
bounds into the arena of society full of
beauty, conquests and hope. School days
are rapidly forgotten, her affection for
"sweeties" and goodies almost con.
quered and her instinct for creams and
ices 50 far subdued that she can pass
Struppers and Profumo's without recol
lecting that she wants change" She
exercises n judicious amount of good dis.
erection, and is very pretty but not too
conscious of her beauty She does not
consider politeness from gentleman
friend the preface to n proposal, nor de-
tect an attachment for life in the offer of
an arm. Her computation of age in
strangely lost She does not think all
below seventeen are 'chits," nor does she
think all above twenty-five are dreadful
yaged. She has not a supreme contempt
for boys, nor does she refuse to speak to
young man because he has no whskers
Her fondness for dolls is not
transferred to live kicking babies,
and she is not continually
begging the nurse to let her hold the
dear little thing She keeps no album
dedicated to her own praises, though it is
rumored that she keeps diary and jots
down the days events before putting
gum tragicum on her bangs at night
She is not always seribbling and there is
no mystery about her notes, no thrustng
them into her pocket and rushing off to
her bed room to read them. 1t is most
libellous to hint that she rehearsos the
brides part of the marriage cerHmony,
and it is equally as ill-natured - insinu.
ate that she spends hours before
looking glass curling and twisting and
banging her hair in order to find out thu
most becoming style Of hair dress, She
never rouges excepting at a compliment
She never makes inuendo appointments
by asking if you will be at certain
entertainment or expatiating on the
enjoyment of her walk down Broad
street every afternoon" She receives
parenta advice with the sweetest humil-
ity, and may be reproved without burst
ing into a passionate flood of tears. A
serious conversation does not "bore her
to death, /" nor does she shoot down COM
mon sense by that tremendous cannon of
female criticism-bother.
The model young lady can work and
rush about the house to make herself
useful as well rs ornamental. She does
not lie on the sofa all day reading novels
and imagine herself to be the hero, of
every romance, or long to be an heiress
or a lovely prosecuted orphan. Her ac-
complishments are as numerous as her
admirers, and she can read music and
men at sight, but plays only upon the
former. She goes to the piano at once
when asked to "oblige the company"
without having dreadful cold" She
believes freely what is told her, when it
is not relating to herself, and has no idea
OF imposition, coquetry or artfulness.
She has not the slightest idea how for
tunes are made, and lives in blssful igno-
rance of how butchers and miliner's
bills are paid.
But the model young lady is happy
as happy as the days are long. She is
very enthusiastic, very afiectionate and
very much beloved by every one, even
by her own sex; for she is generous to
them all and enyious of none. The SER
wants love and respect her for the natural
reason that she is kind and considerable to
them She never keeps her maid up all
night and then wonders next day "what
can make her SO sleepy and stupid"
Mammas quote her as pattern to aspir~
ants still in their teens, brothers cite her
irresistible graces, and sisters give the
finishing touch to her reputation by the
detracting praise of envious rivalship.
The bachelor who gets her finds fore
taste of Heaven-that society's miss,
out natures great hit model young
lady, Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer.