The Mineral argus., 1884-01-24

in the divine right of rich people to
please themselves. He had q p8ftIaiity
for pretty women, especially for one
gay Young married woman, wife Of a
st~ock-broker, one of the new people;
and when the doctor ordered him down
to Florida for the winter, what does he
do but write up to her family, asking
that she should be allowed to come down
and take care of him? Down she hutter-
ed with trunks and toilets bew.tching,
installed herself at his side, and a t
last got him to make a win in her favor,
giving her the bulk of his millions. The
family threatened to put her letters in
court, and a compromise was made by
which she got a hundred thousand or
so. Her husband is remarkably pleased
with the financial ability of his wife, and
both move in the gayest of gay society.
The world is wide, and, as one lady Of
irreproachable notions said, "ifyou shut
sinners out of society you don't always
know whether it is they or you that are
outside the most. ] don't make such
persons nv bosom friends, or ask them
to my house, neither when | Leet them
do L feel Obliged to sit as judge and jury
on my fellow-creatures;" which express
es the amiahle sentiments of society to-
ward pleasant people IN general.
Leaving out the fiawed peaches, there
is another sort of Boston girl, delicate
of complexion, with bright, expressive
eyes, and iace all gay, with qui * intelli-
gencC, swaying figure, dancing step, and
style more simple and perfect than that
of any other ONE made. She does
not trans6x you with repartee, like
your clever C~alifornians; she hasn't so
much OF the bouncing manner OF the
NAm Nnr1 Uirl NAV fr.n, fh1 V,.r
she isn't sentimental as the Albanian,
who is quite capable of quoting "Marmi-
on" TO you at any time, nor does she
tolerate poems of the st. Louis-Milwau-
kee order. She is the kind of girl her
father takes comfort in talking to, and
never needs snubbing from her brother
to keep her in order. She isn't turned
out to order by the dozen, like those in
sipid model young English ladies who
come over travelling with their papas
and mammas, and who give you the
idea of needing to be kept in boxes all
their lives. The Boston girl is made to
order and the pattern broken. The
voices of well bred young women here
are c~uriously alike; and / have turned
so often to greet a friend, whose soft,
tunable voice l could have sworn to,
and found a stranger, that it is more
AAC4uOAb itdt esiAluDliiKs 1CIIidDS
from something | have said before, you
get the idea that a Boston girl knows
how to dress, She don't wear palm-leai
cashmere suits with ten-inch fringes on
the street, like the tip-top Denver girl,
or cross Quagmires in ruby ~velvets, like
the gorgeous young cattle-Queen afore-
said. She frequently wears rubbers,
and writes on postal cards sometimes,
but YOU are never tempted ia take her
for an actress or a parlor-maid out. You
see her walking down the common with
her gray-headed papa mornIngs-he on
his way to business; she, with her en-
broidered bag of books, on her way to
lessons-both chatting like good COM
rades. Her mamma does not find it
necessary to send a French maid with
her every time she goes out alone; at
least only the stockholders Qhe new
people) do that, and nice work the girls
and the maids together make sometimes.
The , smart American girl savors
enough mischief without having a
French. bonnie TO teach her any more
than she knows already.
Boston is a wOman's city, where they
and go with an independence
convenient to all concerned. The |
IN tmlnas can remember when it was not |
etiquette for ladies to visit the Athen-
seum art Gallery III day tlIne without an |
escort, and they are not likely 10 wish
daughters under any such ~restric-
tons. The fine slender girls meet
stepping across the commOn to their les
sous, with that deer-like carriage of the
head that suits their soft, serious eyes,
and their faces which have the inno-
cence ola thoughtful, well-informed child
dressed in plain English suits of forest
green cashmere, with close capes, furry
hat and feather, trim to the tips of their |
frills, gloves, and boots. are an order of
young ladyhood one could bear
see O~ftener. Such girls
viii new need their freedom abridged. |
Ii their mammas wish TO have a game
dinner over at Point Shirley-which is
across the bay for San trancisco-they
make up a party and have, if anything,
a better time than their husbands who
may be dining in the next room, as
happened once. Women in society 90
to opera aud theatre unattended and un-
criticised. As one enVious girl said:
New York people of family think they
can't go anywhere without the carriage
and a guard of honor; here the nice PEG
pie think they can go everywhere and
ANYHOW" What's the good of being
better family than everybody else, if YOU
can't do as you please?