Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-29
TYPES OFGIRLs.
The DOcile. the Elegant, the Amin ated.
and the Brilliant New York GIRL of To-

The Docile. the Elegant, the Animated.
and the Brilliant New York G ri of To-
Day.
Blqksly Hau, in Totoa Topics.
What has become of the gentle, soft and
doeile young girl? She fOurished once,
and was usually considered to be about
Inc most fetching thing in girls extant.
Recently she placidly driited out OF sight,
leaving ia her stead the dashing wide
eyed and blooming-girl who holds the field
to-day. There is something plaintiye in
the memory OF the doeile young girl.
She was the dude Of temininity. she did
not row or bowl or ride, or walk, but was
content to drift modestly along, bland, Sc
rene and dOvelike, wearing her eyes alOft,
her hair in pretty curls and her hands
folded submissiyely in her lap. When
she tmidly entered the room and took her
seat in far corner-a bit OF lace hand
kerchief in one hand and "Lucillen in the
Other-and began to coo in her mild and
earnest way about the hOllowness of life,
large, bony and robust men fell PROSTATE
before her, and she meekly gathered them
in. Sac did 1t mildly, but she gathered
them in.
She was succeeded by the girl who was
usually described as elegant" This
particular fashion in girls was never Yerv
ENbhtat win AtNAF Jul ~ " dh lNlAu6natAN
affected by women. The elegant girl was
graceful IN mien, polite, refined, and
usually immeshed IN a dim and entirely
untOunded mystery spoken OF in meaning
whispers by her companions as an ''af-
fair" The elegant" girl never inn
pressed me much. / confess, in depre-
catory way, that after had left her / was
won't at times to go of in some secluded
corner, where nobody but the man in the
moon could see, and indulge in giggllng
70 a wholly indecent extent. She was
deep girl. ! have known her at times to
eurreptitiously accomplish the erection
Of romance winch concerned the love
Of a soulful girl with tangled mass Of
blue-blaek hair tor lambent-eyed man,
whose distinguishing Characteristic were
rare and brilliant smile and a fondness
for talking about things he evidently
knew nothing whatever about in words
ten syilables long, She called him Egg
bert, Bryce or Clare, and usually signed
the romance "MariOne." / don't know
why she added the fnal 'e"--neither did
she.
The animated girl with a gush OF arlfi-
tial merrimgnt came romping on the
scene, and the elegant girl stood dlsap-
pfovingly alO0f and stared at her. But
toe gayetY-hctitious or genuine-ot The
latest thing IN girls drove all the others
out Of favor, and, for time New York
would nave no other girl than the one
who was perpetually on her toes and
equeaking out her rapturous delight at
everybody and everything on earth. She
chaued OF "saesiety,"0f ''sets" CLASSES
and families" and, though she may at
heart have been artiul. cunning, crafty
Hnd inslncere, or simply sentimental,
weakly and inane, her manner was ever
tnat Of pure and artless young thing.
Was she ever tiresOmef Did her perpetual
putbursts Of enthusiasm and delight cause
you a. times TO step aside aud drop hot
ene scalding tear OF pity for herr II did.
Ai the least l0veable.
hlch brings us to the New York girl
today, with her red hussar jacket.
mart little turban, erect carriage aud
sAsy SWING. She owns the world. The
eas{ play q the features. the superb color.
-Ns 4ns eyes that look q man square ia