Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-11-19
THE CLEAN GIRL.
The One Who Looks Neat and well
Groomod Under All circumstances.

The One Who Looks Neat and well
Groomed Under All circumstances.
Did You ever SEQ her? mean the
clean girl--the girl who always looks
neat and well groomed under I'LL CIR
cumstances AS the old saying is, clay
wouldn't stick to her. But whether It
would or not it doesn't, for the simple
reason that she never gives 1t a chance.
If she were condemned to die on the
scaffold she'd sit up oil night to wash
and iron her fichu and skirts and hand
kerchief, ETC., and she would be late ut
the ceremony on account of her careful
toilet. The clean girl is rarely fash
ionable girl; she belongs rather to the
old maid order or prinky sort. Some
mornings on my way down town in a
street car amuse myself by looking
around for the clean girl.
Idon't always find her. On the con-
trary, 1 see many things which surprise
me-buttons of or hanging by ono
thread, travelled edges here and there,
rents fastened up with u pin, button
holes too large to hold the button,
gloves ripped or out Mt the finger ends;
and, worse than these, l see signs OF
untidiness dried mud on the bottom OF
q skirt. stains of food on the front OF q
sacque or jacket
And, going little higher, I see that
face and neck have been carelessly
washed and that the hair is not COM
pletely free from dust and dandruff.
But other mornings the clean girl comes
tripping in, and an always glad when
she takes seat beside me. She smells
as fresh Us clover field, and looks it,
too
The scalp beneath her soft brown
hair is as free from dust and dandruff
as if she had just left tho hair-dresser's
chair, and her skin has that fresh,
wholesome look which the human cpl
dermis presents when it is kept well
acquainted with both hot and cold
water-one to cleanse and the other to
tone up and bring the blood well to the
surface and impart that glow which
only cold water can give. There may
be trace of rice powder on the clean
girls face, but it is very slight just
barely enough to remove the shine
But to appreciate the clean girl you
should meet her at her own homo or in
the drawing-room. Her hands arc soft
and white and her nails always pared
and polished with exquisite neatness
You can feel their cleanness when you
shake them, and no matter how close
she may get to you or how much she
may get tousled or crumpled in n romp
with the young folks, she comes out of
the scrimmage like rose whose petals
have been crushed or ruffied by the
wind or by a careless hand.
She doesn't cnre whether you catch q
glimpse of her feet or ankles, for she
knows how neatly shod and stoclsinged
they are; nor does she care whcthe.
mischievous hands pull out her hair
pins and tumble her hair down. She
is sure of herself, she knows that those
brown tresses may DO examined By, the
most scrutinizing gaze, and yet show
no traces of neglect nor shed any but
faint perfume, which is the combined
result of her own and the violet'S or tho
roses sweetness
The clean girl is rarely beautiful
girl, but she has power of fascination
peculiarly her own. She is SO whole
some-looking that the eye, tired of
painted, powdered, puttied-up beauties,
turns to her for relief, very much rs the
lips accustomed to chocolates. caramels
and marshmallows long for bit Of
old-fashioned taffy or a hunk of new
maple sugar-N. Y. World.