The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-08-08
Some ..old fashioned Young man.

has been writing recently, and the
papers have copied it far and wide,
that a pretty girl always looks her
prettiest in a calico waist. He fur
thermore leads us to believe that
Tenny son might have been quite
practical as well as poetical if he had
only in some way introduced the
statement that his young mans fan
cy lightly turned to thoughts of love
in the spring time, because then the
girls don calico waists, aud ''look all
crushv, like full blown roses"
He grows enthusiastic over the
soft pink and blue of the calico, which
is mt calico at all, and warns other
young men not to be deceived by the
subtle charm of this delusive appar
ell, as it may contain very common
place CIR. after all.
The article proves its author man
and his acknowledgment seems al
most superhuous. No woman would
be guilty of saying that "calico"
waists are universal improvers even
of pretty girls, for they very well
know that some pretty girls find
them decidedly unbecoming, and be-
sides calico is not the comprehen-
sive term to the feminine mind it
seems to be to the masculine.
Universally comfortable the "cali.
CO.. waists undeniably arc, and dain-
ty they may very we'll be, but at the
same time many pretty girls realize
that they sacrifice good deal of
beauty when they wear them. As it
is usually considered a eminent
mark of good sense to make this sac
ritice, they may be well pleased to
know that one "old-fashioncd young
man. finds them charming in spite
of it. He doesn't put it that way at
all, but all women realize that is just
what it means, and they are very
willing to pardon man for not know
ing why they are pretty 30 long as
he thinks they are SO.
~
Some one said the other day that
there were a number of girls in Nor
gantown whose anxiety to secure
masculine correspondents led them
to answer the "Wanted-A Core
spondent' notices that appear in SO
many papers. 1t is right hard to
believe it. Surely it must be that
they think they have found an inno-
cent source of amusement. 1t must
be that they have never thought of
the indelicacy of what they do. Still
it should appear to them, when their
own townspeople, who know best the
measure of their thoughtlessness, see
fit to speak of them as that man did.
No young woman who possesses a
proper degree of self-respect will will
lingly be the subject of the remarks
such actions provoke. She may be
able eventually to counterfeit such
an impression, but it remains true
that at first, to a gentleman, she APP
pears in the light of forward, in
discreet person, and the chances are
that the man advertiser may not be
a gentleman.
Under such circumstances, / don't
know in what light she appears, and
| have suspicion that it is an in
stance in which she may be more
comfortable in ignorance.
If a girl feels that existence is
burden without man to whom she
can write, by all means, let her not
suffer in silence, but surely she has
at least one masculine acquaintance
to whom she may pour out her ire
pressible soul. At any rate, let her
rest assured that to her unknown cor
respondent she figures as a young
woman who has failed to secure
victim among those who know her,
and it may be that the consciousness
of this fact will have more restrain
ing influence over her epistolary ef-
forts, than any homily on her indeli-
cacy and indiscretion.
BARBARIAN.