Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-19

while taking credit to themselves for
being beyond the pale that marks the
extravagant dame, fall into an error not
less despicable than the one they con-
denim. Extravaganza is one thing,
slovenliness another. No true woman
should despise adornment. What
makes her lovely in the sight of her
fellows should be dear to her. Adorn-
ment, that is, within certain limits.
But often the eye is offended by the
clever. the interesting woman-the
woman whose intellect is far above the
average-the woman, in fact, whose
mind 1850 delightful that one feels her
body should be akin to it, and yet who
so numerically neglects the latter that
one is compelled to shudder at her want
OF taste rs one gazes at her.
To admire the beautiful is q common
instinct implanted in all breasts. To
desire it is an acquired taste. And
money is not everything where personal
adornment is in question: as / have SAID
before, the young girl-"the young per-
son, " as they call her in England-can,
ii she has u sense of harmony born
within her, so manage a slender income
that she may present to the passing eve
as fair a vision as her sister, the million
aire, who moves lauguidly hither and
thither through the crowd, clad in
priceless silks and laces.
Enough of dress; a far more important
fault remains behind.
The question Of dress is in a measure
trifing, when compared with that of
manners.
Here comes the brusque girl! who
thinks Honesty as she designates
rudeness, a real virtue. To say what
you think-to live in IN eternal ''palace
of TRUTHS, she imagines, to be above
the average, and to soar in a realm
from which less virtuously minded peo-
pie are excluded. This girl, as q rule,
forgcts that to be rude IS not always to
be honest. Better are the %slovenly ones
of the earth than these last. For
though, las T~heoprastus has it, "Sloven-
lyness is a lazy and beastly negligence
OF "a mans own person, whereby nc be-
comes so sordid as to be offensive to
those about him," still it is not so un-
forgivabie a fault as the curlish deter
mutation to square all the corners of
life, and forbid u kindly curve any
where
The clever girl, who poses as a social
solon, and aspires to give wisdom 10 all
men, is %only--if she but knew tia So
cial bore. "A word to the wise is suf-
ticient," and therefore | would say to all
would-be savantes that to place their
cleverness too much en- evidence is a
fault scarcely to be cOndoned by the
present generation. We all like to
think ourselves clever, and to be put
down and made to feel small by Il chit
of Il girl raises wrath irrepressible in
the bosoms OF most of US.
OF all girlish types, however, the loud
and noisy one is among the most mex
cusable. The noisy girl makes a room
all her own. She enters it with u loud
laugh and leaves it with a scream mean
fer merriment, but suggest We only OF dis
comfort to the unhappy listeners. She
is invariably n pursuer OF men. She
~cultivates the saying of fast things and
believes herself ~singularly successful
when she has brought the blush of
shame to the cheek of the very young
man, who has just launched himself
upon the waters of society and is hardly
prepared for nayal engagements OF this
kind. Nobody cares for herl and gem
orally she winds up her career by mar
rying "A curate OF the mildest kind, who
has accepted her proposal of marriage
because he has been afraid TO say her
Ray.
Here is. however, something worse
than the fast and noisy girl. This is the
fast, but insidiously silent, married
woman! The moral blot! who creeps
through society with q demure and