The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-26
A WORD TO GIRLS.
Suggestions Worthy of the Consideration
Of Every True Young m

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of Every True Young Woman.
With woman's natural love of beauty
and color, added to the astonishing
premium placed upon "good clothes"
by society and the press, we are net
surprised that the horizon of so many
women's lives are bounded by dry
goods establishments, and the diction-
airy of their language contained in the
bazars of fashion. We have just tossed
aside a recent number of one of the
most influential journals of the East,
twelve pages of which are filled with
what purports to be a record Of Amer
lean society, past and present, and a
list of names are given of m in
New York, Philadelphia, Washington
and Louisville who are to be handed
down to posterity as famous for what?
For their helpfulness to the age they
| live in? For an unseltsh hospitality?
For having developed and consecrated
to friends their best gifts of song or
conversation No, but for the quality
| of dry-goods they wore. Twelve pages
| and not a hint that one of these ladies
gave utterance to a brilliant thought, a
suggestive repartee, but that like a pro-
cession of wax figures they passed be-
fore the admiring world, habited as
follows: Mrs. - appeared in many
| elegant robes; her evening toilets were
as follows, etc.
In the name of w~omanhood we pro.
test. and for the sake Of American girl
hood, we beg the editors of our re-
spective journals to put a premium
upon something in the world be-
sides dry-good&. In every city
the homes which have become
true literary centerS- the rare places
where genuine manhood and m
hood are recognized. despite the awk-
ward setting Of plain attire are passed
by in contempt, in m~ing a social
record to show the progress Of the last
century. SO long as women are con
tent to be judged only by the amount
of expensive" dry goods they wear, SO
long will they be subject TO much crit
cism. In a girl, however pretty, wirat
is there to interest one if they read
nothing in her face, from time to time,
but that she is daily getting more worn
and faded in the search for a rich huS-
band? But give her one genuine. one
disinterested taste, and all is changed.
Girls entering upon the world, deter
mined to run the worldly course, !
would say this to you. Try to win for
yourself n taste of a truer and deeper
sort. Study Wadsworth and some
parts of Shelley; open your sympa-
thies oy their aid in one direction.
Learn to love the woods, the wild flow
ers with all their infinite changes Of
scent and color and sound; the rip
ping spring, the rolling mistS. Let
these things grow to haunt you like a
passion, and then BY and by 90 look
into the looking-glass and study your
W face. Hasn't some new look
come into your eyes, and given them
expression--a something they wanted
before. Aye, more and more, dear girls,
to-day intoxicated, enervated by the
strange passion for dress, begin to
study humanity; determine to do some
thing to make life brighter for other
people, and get into the habit Of m
times studying the old gold and Grim.
son, the lovely rose and the dreamy
blue. or pearl-tinted gray OF Gods sun
set clouds; lift your eyes just above
the shop windows, and honor the
woman whose conversation is filled
with pearls of thought. and rubies of
wit, ard diamonds of suggestions and
then shall YOU have filled one claim to
a place in the record Of Americas
true women.-Bro0bipn MtgH-Me.