The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-15

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makes bold to say that it has known
some pretty girls who were home angels,
who laborcd faithfully under the dis
advantage of superior charms and finally
settled down to become good wives. Let
no girl who is gifted with beauty feel
discouraged.-Aacon (Ga) Telegraph.
The Girl Of To-day
The girl of to-day is generally prof.
cient in necdle-work. She cannot only
alter her own dresses, but cut and make
those and her undcrclothing rs well.
She has a knack at trimming her hats and
furnishing up her wardrobe, and does
her full share at helping the dressmaker,
who comes to assume charge of TIE spring
and fall sewing. She understands the
various branches of mcrding, and takes
that division of labor off her mothers
hands, as we'll as the care of parlors and
dining-room, the arranging of lowors,
the supervision Of the manner and
apparel of the younger children, and
sometimes of their studies, too.
Let full justice be done to the 'tgirl of
the PERIOD" or, rather, let there be a
clear compre' sion of what should be
really represented by that much-abused
phrase. 1t is not fair to take the weak
est specimens Of the sex as types
of a class comprising workers, with
strong conceptions of life, its response
bilities and burdens, and a steady pur-
pose to bear them according to the best
of their af1ility.-Phiadelphio Press.
A Society Beehive.
There is always the hostess with her
daughter at the top of the stairs, sur
rounded by a crowd who have bowed or
shaken hands with that lady, and who
afterward appear as if they were trying to
hide themselves from her and her Off
spring as fast as possible, says a writer in
Harpe''s Magazine, describing a crowded
fashionable ball in London. The must
clans are blockadcd in one corner, and
round the doors the black-coated young
men cluster like bees in swarming time.
Mothers and daughters are ranged two
or three deep round the walls, the more
fortunate of the former sitting, but
many on foot. In the middle of the
room, reduced to an irregular space Of
about ten feet by six, struggling couples
beat one against another. On their faces
are expressed various cmotions-high
spirits and depression, malice and good
humor, pleasure and pain.
The floor oscillates; wax candles
sprinkle their substance literally about;
hot young men open windows and chilly
dowagers shut them. Now and then q
black coat detaches itself from the mass
near the door, and with a patronizing air
selects a partner, or makesa few gracious
observations to a chaperone.
Everything is sound and tumult, the
only approach to repose being on the
back stair, where two or three couples
sit in a blissful state watching other
couples wedge their way to the tca-room
through opposing masses who press back
to the dancing. In the tca-room is a still
denser throng, above which arms are
raised waving tea-cups, glasses of lemon
ade, ices and other light refreshments.
Telegraph Operators.
There evidently is ono kind of business
for which women seem to be we'll fitted,
judging from the number engaged in it,
and that, says the Neo York World, is
telegraphy. Strolling about the city and
dropping into almost any telegraph office
from Harlem to the Battery there may be
seen the female operator, and, rs a gen
eral thing, she will be seen to be young
and pretty and wideawake to her bust
ness. She will sometimes have about
her q number of subordinates of the 3D.
posite sex in the form of callow youths
and messenger boys, over whom she
queens it with a right royal will and an