Smyrna times., 1884-10-15
Morning Glory Girls.

In the pages of a novel the girl who
has morning call always comes trip
ping into the parlOr, dressed in a feecy
gown of white, or a rose. .colored cash
mere with a girdle of bright ribbons.
or neat house dress of some simmer
ing gray fabric. She puts away her
soft brown hair, from her untrOubled
face, and her eyes have the rested
brightness Of ever perpetual youth,
and much more of the same sort al in
fRtUm. This is i'll a book
Now take the young lady of real lie.
She has breakfasted, and is amusing
herself with book when a caller is
announced. 1t is young gentleman,
and she does not expect him. She
sends word that she will be down i'm
mediately. Then she tears a bandage
from her queenly brow, which looks as
if it had been cemented together and
picks out the bandOline bangs. Then
hurried toilet ablutions a white Mother
Hubbard, with u pink satin bow and
shoulder knot, takes the place of the
waist and skirt, which were "good
enough for home"
The old slip-shod slippers are re-
placed by pink hose and opera ties.
There is a hasty skirmish with the
powder puff, a christening dash of
cologne, and with an embroidered
mOuchOir in her hand the young lady
descends to the parlor and finds her
younger brother on intimate terms
with the caller, who is no other than
her escort Of the previous evening
| when she was arrayed in her purple
and fine lace.
+ He does not realize that she is in
masquerade Just now as much as she
was then, that he is the hero of Il scene
in real life, and that if he had met her
in the hall as she appears in the bosom
| Of her family he would probably have
| mistaken her for her own maid. He
could scarcely, with this vision before
him, be brought to understand that
| her young ladyhOod is so completely a
matter OF personal ad0rnment.
! Ii would be almost q safe thing to as
! sert that ont Of fifteen young ladies of
leisure only five could be seen at a
morning call without the required wait
of half an hour In many families
where the daughter is social belle,
there is as much preliminary hUrrying
and scurrying to and fro to get her in
presentable shape, for an unexpected
call, as if it were an emergency of fire.
And this is not due to poverty of wear
ing apparel. The young lady can have
! anything she desires to Wear-has, in
/ deed, quantities Ofbeautitul clothing
but what is the use Of making an elab-
! crate toilet if there isn't anybody to
see it? In this case father and mother,
sisters and brothers, are all nobodies.
4 waist Of one dress, a skirt of some
! other, both shabby and sOiled, dilapi-
dated lichu, hair en- pOpjLJOte, last
nights powder still visible in streaks,
and a general w-ya-aw-yaw-aw
of weariness. What is this a descrip-
ton ola farmers scarecrow? No
q modern belle, who begins life at the
wrong end Of the day.
AjudiciOus mother, who brought up
alone and unaided q family of daugh-
ters, all of whom filled honOred places
in society, never allowed her girls to
appear at the breakfast table in a social
undress. They must he fresh, clean,
and with a finish of collar and cOiffure
or back they went to their rooms
There was no running away when the
dOOr-bell of that house rung. The
young ladies were always fit to be seen
in their nicely laundried rufIled ging-
ham and breakfast sets, and there was
no appalling contrast between theil
morning and evening toilet. Each was
suited to themselves and the occasion
on which it was worn. In the rose
garden of girls she who blooms the
longest begins the day as morning
glory.