Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-19
LOVE-SICK LASSIES.
What Kind of Men Girls Most Readily
Fall I'm Love With.

oht GVNC VIII
In days of old, when knights were
bold it was considered a very
naughty and wicked act for young
lady to give her love all unasked to a
man of whatever kind; but in these
days, It's said, girl may love a man
madly and may let him know it. He
is so unchiyalrous that he enjoys it
greatly if she is pretty or rich or of a
good family. If she is homely, he
merely stands it, especially if she
works him beautiful presents.
Among the men who receive the
most hearts are army and navy lieu
tenants, cadets, car conductors, young
poets second Carlyles, young minis
tiers, and dashing handsome bookkeep-
ers. Almost every girl admires a lieu
tenant up to certain age No matter
how homely he may be if he only
waltzes well and wears his uniform
gracefully he is perfectly lovely"
A girl in Brooklyn is so yerv fond of
army officers that she visits Fort Ham
ilton every day to gaze upon those
stationed there, and another girl Iiv-
ing IN West Fifty street, this
city, has such liking for them that
she has collected a button from almost
every American officer, and vet she is
not satisfied. Washington girls will
seldom look at man unless he is a U.
s. A. or a L. S. n. Their bible is the
Army and Navy Journal and they
carry it either in their pocket or stuck
in the belt of their dress.
Car conductors have a great infiu-
ence over the feminine heart, if thew
are good looking. The other day a
bevy OF pretty seminary girls stepped
into Madison avenue car, and after
the conductor had collected the fare
one of the prettiest girls said in sub
dued voice: Isn't he handsOme?"
Lovely" replied her companions.
I've often noticed him, . said the
first speaker, land [ would Just love
to have him come to our commence
ment, wouldn't you girls?'
! Yes, they assented. But, said
one girl, "he wouldn't have any nice
clothes so we can't have him"
/ There's a handsOmer conductor
than he on this line" said a girl who
had been reading all the time L
ride up with him every morning"
a very wealthy and beautiful girl
fell IN love with a young man, said
lady to the reporter, who passed her
window every morning. He had
beautiful, big, sad black eyes, and fair
hair, brushed back from noble brow
and under his arm he always carried
a brown book. She used to sit by the
window every morning and watch for
his coming, and presently he began to
notice her, and one day he brought a
bunch of viOlets and placed them on
| the sill of the broad barred window,
and then she was sure he was a poet,
and every morning he did the same
thing, until she fairly grew to worship
him. But one day, near the end Of
the month, he came and rang the
front door bell and presented bill of
$1,000 for viOlets delivered at the
house every morning. and then the
love-sick maiden discovered he was a
grocery clerk and the brown book was
his luncheon box"
Girls who are in love with some UNI
known person, write oceans of what
they fondly call poetry. They have
beautiful ideals in their minds foster
ed by reading Tennyson's poems and
the Scottish Chiefs, and when they
see handsome or lovely man, or
man with genius stamped upon his
manly brow" they fall in love madly
wildly. This love generally dies a
natural death; but oftentimes leads to
elOpements and suicides.