Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-04-11
TYPES OF GIRLS.

1 ltEGO VI dfh-Ss
The Docils Girl. the Elegant Girl, the Ami
mated Girl and the Brilliaht New Yorl
Gill OF To-day.
Blakely Hall in TorR Topics.
What has become Of the gentle, soft ont
docile Young girl2 She fourished ence, ant
was usually considered to be about the mos
fetching thing in girls extant. Recently
she plscidly drifted ont OF sight, leaving
in her stead the dsshing, wide-eyec
and blooming girl who holds the field to
dsy. There is something plsintive in the
memory Of the docile young girl Shewss
the dude Of femIninity. She did not row
or bowl or ride or walk, but was content to
drift. modestly along, bland. serene and
dovs-hke, wearing her eyes slott. her hsir
in pretty curls and her hands folded sub
missively in her lisp. When she timidly
entered the room and took her seat IN q
far eoruer-a bit of lace handkerchief IN
one hand and Lucille" 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. She
did it mildly, but she gathered them m
She was succeeded BY the girl who was
usually described as elegant" Thus par
tieuIar fashion in girls was never very pop.
Mar with men, but il was immensely at
fsctsd by women. The elegant girl was
graceful in mien, polite, refined snd usual
10 Immersed in q dim and entirely IN
founded mystery spoken of in meaning
whispers by her compsnionsss an affair.
The elegant girl never Impressed me
much. | confess in Geprecstory way that
after | had LETT her | was wont
at times to 60 off in some
secluded corner, where nobody but the
man in the moon could see and indulge in
ViOVling to a wholly indecent extent. She
was q deep girl. have known her at
times to surreptitiously accomplish the
erection of q romance which concerned the
love of a soulful girl with tangled mass OF
blue-blaek hair for lambert eyed man,
whose distinguishing characteristics we're
rare aud brilliant smile and toudness
for talking about things he evidently knew
nothing whatever about IN words ten sylis-
bles long. She called him Egbert, Bryce
or Clare, sad usually sigued the romance
"Marioue." ] don't know why she added
the final "e'-neither did she.
The animated girl with gush of srtif-
cisl merriment came romping on the
scene, and the elegant girl stood disap-
aloog and stared ct her. But the
or geluins-ot the latest
thing in girls drove all the Others cut OF
favor. and for time New York would
have no other girl than the one who was
psrpstGslly on her TOES aud squesking out
her rspturous delight at everybody and
everything on earth. She ehatted Of "sas.
siety," of sets" 'clssses" and families,
and though she. may at heart have been
artful, canning, crafty and insincere, or
simply sentimental, weakly and inane,
her manner was ever that of pure
and sr:less young thing. Was she
ever tiresome2 Did her perpstual out
bursts Of enthusiasm aud delight csuseyon
at times to step aside Gai drop hot aud
scslding tear of pity for 6erf Il did. "
sll the fashions in girls tbis vas 6y ssr the |
least loysbls. +
Which brings US to the New lorA giri
of today, with her red hlssar jacket, smsr:
ht;ls tuS5au, erect csrrisgs AID easy
swing. She owns tbs world The easy
play Of the faatq-es, the superb color, and
the eyes tina. look q msu square 10
the face ard achieve his maud |
liza subsection ut o glance are ia
mihar to us 81! We forgive her afects-
ton of the English, for when che spsaks
of the "row-dy-dows' it is Wits a auizz;eai
smile and her boldness is never anything |
oct charming. She is natural at least,
and al her 6as.. and no man dare remind
her OF the time WlsG she wOs "docile or
elegant or animated '-,aaa Tor that
matter, no man cares to, for the p'essat
fashion in New York girls 70 no. to be
tightly tempered With or treated With any
thing bat sbject and AntiEo s5mjration.