St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-22
TYPES OF GIRLS.
The Docile, the Elegant, the Ami.
nlnted and the Brilliant Girl

The Docile, the Elegant, the AMI
mated and the Brilliant Girl.
Blakely Hall in Town Topics.
What has become of the gentle, soft and
docile young girl? She fourished once,
and was usually considered to be about
the most fetching thing in girls extant.
Recently she placidly drifted out of sight,
leaving in her stead the dashing. wide-eyed
and blooming girl who holds the field to-
day. There is something plaintive in the
memory of the docile young girl. She was
the dude of femininity. She did not row
or bowl or ride or walk, but was content
to drift modestly along. bland, serene and
dove-like, wearing her eyes aloft, her hair
in pretty curls and her hands folded
submissively in herl lap. When she timidly
entered the room and took her seat in far
corner-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 TO-
bust men fell PROSTATE before her, and she
meekly gathered them in.
She was succeeded by the girl who was
usually described as elegant" This par
ticular fashion in girls was never very pop
ular with men, but it. was immensely af-
fected by women. The elegant girl was
graceful in mein, polite. refined and u.s.
ually immeshed in dim and entirely I'M
founded mystery spoken of in meaning
whispers by her companions as an ''affair. !"
The elegant" girl never impressed me
much. confess in a deprecatory way that
after had left her was won't at times to
go off in some corner where nobody but the
man in the moon could see, and indulge in
giggling to wholly indecent extent. She was
deep girl. have known her at times to
surreptitiously accomplish the erection of
romance which concerned the love of soul
full girl with a tangled mass of blue black
hair for a lambent-eyed man. whose dis
tinguishing characteristics were, rare and
brilliant smile and a f0ndnesS for talking
about things he evidently knew nothing
whatever about in words ten syllables long.
She called him Egbert, Bry ce or Clare, and
usually signed the romance '.Marione"
don't know why she added the final sse''-
neither did she. 81 <
The animated girl with agusho Of artificial
-merriment came romping on the scene, and
the elegant girl stood disapprovingly
aloof and stared at her. But stlfe gaiety-
fictitious or genuine -of the latest thing in
girls drove all the others outsof favor, and
for awhile New York would have no other
girl than the one who was perpetually on
her toes and squeaking out her rapturous
delight at everybody and everything on
earth. She chatted of ''sassiety, y of .'sets, y
classes, and families, = and though
she may at heart have been
artful, cunning, crafty and insin-
cere, or simply sentimHntal, weakly
and innane.. her manner vas ever that of a
pure and artless young thing. Was she
ever tiresome? Did her perpetual outbursts
of enthusiasm and delight cause you at
times to step aside and. drop hot and
scalding tear of pity for her? 1t did, Of
all the fashions in girls this was by far the
least loYeable.
Which brings us to the New York girl of
to-day, with her red hussar jacket, smart
little turban, erect carriage and easy swing.
She owns the world. The easy play of the
features, the superb color, and the eyes
that look a man square in the face and
achieve his maudlin subsection at glance
are familiar to us all,s We forgive her
affectation Of the English, for when she
speaks of row-dy-dows'' it is with quiz
zical smile, and her boldness is never any
thing but charming. She is natural at
least, and at her best, and no man dare re-
mind her of the time when she was s.docile. y
or elegant" or ''animated''-and for that
matter no man cares to, for the present
fashion in New York girls is not to be
lightly tempered with or treated with any
thing but abject and entire admiration.