Daily Republican., 1889-12-02
PRETTY GIRLS OUT WEST.


inquiry as to what precisely Is meant by
this fond aspiration.
A mothers idea Of "good time" for
her daughter usually signifies the sort OF
time she has failed to have herself. 1t
she has been Woodworking woman,
with msny children to care for, she will
desire that her daughter shall live at
case aud be blessed, IN the way of OF.
spring. with something less than a quiv-
criu'. III she has worked too Iaboriously
she runs to the other extreme by wishing
her child to have loss than enough to do.
50 the mothers of the West, women of
the heroic days Of pioneering, uncon-
seiOuslY tell the story of their own strug.
giles and deprIvatlens In the ambitions
Which they indulge for their children.
Along the roads over which her
parents journeyed iu their vhitotopped
wagon, their tent by night, their taber.
nacle, their fortress In time of Cangsr,
The settlers daughter shall ride in a
Or-made habit, or fare luxurlously IN
"A drawtng-room car. Where the mothers
steadfast face grew brown with the glare
OF the alkali plain, the daughter shall
careiessly glance out from behind the
tapestry blind Of her Pullman 'section,"
Where the mothers hand washed aud
cooked and mended, and dressed
wounds, and famed the Goals of the
campfire, the daughters shsll trine with
books and music, shall be soft and
'manicured" aud daintily gloved.
THE PRETTY GIRLS GOOD TIME.
1t is one of the curious sights In the
shops OF little town of frame houses
chiefly OF one story, where the work of
tue house IL not inirequently done by the
house-inother, not from poverty, but
from the want In new community of a
servant class-to behold alb ut Christmas
time the display OF sumptuous to let arti-
cies implying hours spent upon the care
OF Inc feminine person, especially the
feminine hands. This may be one Of the
Indications Of the sort of good time that
is preparing Ter the daughters Ct the town.
There are other aud more hopeful sup-
gestlons, but none that seriously counter-
act the plainly projectei revolt IN the
part OF the mothers against future OF
physical fort Tor their girls
There are girls AID girls in tile West of
al degrees and styles oil pret,iness. The
career Of the Western young lady In her
native environment Ia something amaz-
ing 10 pers rs OF eobs- imagination as
TO what should constitute girls good
time" The risks I at he takes, no less
than her extraordinary escapes from the
usual consequences, are enough to make
ones tine-honored principles reel OIL the
Judgment seat of propriely.
In tile novels she goes abroad and mar
res all English duke; in real life, not
quite 70 often; but she is an element of
confusion. morally, In all ones prophe-
ces with regard to her. She may have
talent, and make an actress or SINGER il
she has any capacity for work; or she
may marry the man she loves and be-
come an exemplary wife. That which in
her hlsto y appeals most deeply to ones
is the contrast between Ler
lortunrs and those OF her mother.
THE EASTERN GIRL Is TOO TAME.
The pretty ri from the East IL hardly |
enough OF "rushcr' to please the young |
Western masculine taste, but there VIII |
not be wanting pilgrims to her shrine. |
Her Eastern hostess will be proud Of the |
chance 20 demonstrate that she Isn't at |
all the same sort II pretty girl as her Sis
ter OF tho West-it Is the shades of differ. |
ence that are vital-and she wall receive |
an almost pathetic we come at tho bands
o! her you z c3unirymen stranded upon
cattle ranches, or in railroad or M ming |
camps, or engaged In har ~ attempts OF |
ono sort or another wherein there Is room |
or feminine sympathy.
whether she takes her pleasure actively |
IN the saddle or in the canoe, or sils ont |
the red summer twllighls on tn, ranch !
piazza, o. tunfs her guitar to the ear OF |
a single listener who has ridden over
miles oil desert plain for the privilege,
size viii he conscious that she supplies a
M tive, new meaning to the lie around
hef.
all tlls Is dangerous. She Is in a world
Of Illusions capable of turniog into or
i ais ior those no put them 10 The proof
or'eals Tor which there has been no
preparation III the life OF the pretty Girl.
Even the ordeal OF taste is not to be
ie6plted taste, which eli srOns aud con-
'Oles md uaites and stimulaf' women
n the East, and which d sunifes aud tor
lures and sets them al d llance, olc with
another, IN the West.
The tic of the men may be large end
lramatic even 10 Il failure; hut the life
Of women, here, as eyrrywh-s,, is maze
up OF small matters--a badly eco, Il din.
nor, horrible wall payer, u wind thst
Tears the nerves, a child with som, thin.
the matter witt 1t which tue doctor
doesn't understand" an acquaintance
That Is just near enough not TO be n
rleGd; II Is the little shocks for which
me Ia never preparod, tha little disap.
plintnents AID insecuriics and failures
and pcstponemrlts, the want of cOmple,e.
ness and pert ctioa IN ans thing that bar
rows wol1an's soul and makes her Tor
get too often that She has sonl.
SO lot our pretty Extern Rirl remem-
Der, before she pledges herself irrevoc bly,
10 follow the fortunes of some ciiarming
'oung man she has had good time"
with ON tie frontier, that-all COED mes
and masculine assurances to the contrary
notwithstandlne-the frontier is not vet
ready for her kind OF pretty girl. There
s more than one generation between her
and the mother OF new community
lnless she 10 minded to offer herself up
IN the altar OF social enlightenment, or
or tie particular benefit OF her particu ar
Young man. This Is a fate which viii
ilwaya have baloiul fascination for the
iouug woman who lie capable of arguing
hat II the frontier lie not ready for her
The young man III.
The pity o; 1t Is that these young ION.
lemen always will pick out the pretty
Sirl, when a less eXpen, I've choice would
Ie 50 much more seryil ea9le ~ d 1T the
conditions oil their lives 80 much be ter.
But they are all potential MI Iona /. S,
hcse energetic dreamers. They do not
inch themselves iu their prospective ar
ansoments iucIudn,s the prospective .
wife. Between Them both, the girl who
'Gpects to have good time and tie
ioung man whs " confident that he can
live It 10 her. there Will PROBABLY be
cod deal to learn.