The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-07
THE GERMAN GIRL.
She Isn't Smart and Gushing, but
She Makes a Good Wife.

The German girl is the most persist
emily moderated of all girls, says a
writer in the Jenaess Miller Magazine.
The Frenchman ridicules her, the
E%nglishman patronizes her, and the
American avoids her. The Russian
c%ourteously ignores her, and even the
German is ready to desert her for her
foreign sister. Among men of all ma
tlons there is almost none to speak
for her, and, as she is too modest TO
speak for herself, most persons who
know her slightly or not at all think
there is nothing to say for her. This
is entirely wrong.
To be sure the German girl has
none of the dazzling attributes of her
English, French, American and Rus
sian sisters. She is not Jolly, nor
''chic." nor smart" nor brilliant. /"
She is not .'r~avishingly beautiful, =
nor lawful entertaining" nor a ter
rible flirt.n But despite all these
shortcomings, the German girl has at
fractions OF her own and an album
dance of them. She is we'll educated,
intelligent and well bred. In history
the German girl is companionaoly
clever. She is not pedantic with her
knowledge; is the antipode OF a blue
stocking.
The German girl can play well and
sing q little, too. She reads the news
papers. marvels greatly at the iniquity
of the French, and reasons out to the
| satisfaction of her own patriotic little
heart the complete justification of the
Triple Alliance. All this, and more.
| too. the Herman girl carries about in
her iaxen little head without turning
a single hair in coneeit. Her Herr
Papa and Herr Lieutenant Won Beer
fass NAV discuss over the whole field
of her knowledge in her presence and
she doesn't try to show she knows all
about it. She may have whole mines
of information on current topics in
her mind, but she doesn't make strenu-
Gus efforts to let any young man know
this. She is, in short, enough of a
German to wish to know, just for
the sake of knowing. 1t is just this
fullness of unrevealed education and
information that lends indirect
ly to the German girl her charm In
conversation. She has no fears of run
ming short of conversational material.
| She has no apprehensions that she
| cannot understand all a man says to
her when he drifts on harm lessly
heavy and ilnpersonal subjects. She
is therefore quite free from all CONVEX
| sational She does not
substitute gusto for intelligence upon
subjects of which she knows nothing,
and she never raves about things that
she knows only by hearsay. Through
out a tete-a-tete she is deliciously
serene and reposeful.
Once married, the German girl be-
comes all that has long been popu-
Iarly included in the haekneyed ex-
preston, haus frau. She gives up
transcendental romance, though not
reading and theatre-going, and,
whether princess or peasant, fastens
to her waistband a great bunch OF
keys that unlock every cupboard and
closet in her house. She sees to it
that the pea soup is properly cooked
and that the beer is properly stored.
The German girl is not beautiful.
Her shoulders are o square her
waist tapers too little, and her features
are too expansive. On the other hand,
she is not plain, for she has a wealth
of fine silky hair, a delicate skin, and
a clear white brow. Her feet and
hands, though not small, are shapely,
and the atmosphere in which she
moves is permeated with health. Fin
ally, the German girls heart is bis
and in just the right place, so hat al
who have seen her as she is can never
think of her otherwise than as a SYM
pathetic and true woman, too clever
to be frivolous, too sincere to be ca
PRECIOUS, and too earnest TO play will
real life.