Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18
THE CLEAN GIRL
The One Who Looks Neat and Well
Groomed Under All Circumstances.

The One Who Looks Neat and Well
Groomed Under All Circumstances.
Did you ever see her? l mean the
clean girl-the girl who always looks
neat and well groomed under all 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 it chance.
If she were condemned to die on the
scaHold she'd sit up all night to wash
and iron her fichu and skirts and hand
kerchief, etc. and she would be late at
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 prinlHy sort. Some
mornings on my way down town in q
street car amuse myself by looking
around for the clean girl
don't always find her. On the con-
trary, see many things which surprise
me-buttons off or hanging by one
thread, ravel1ed edges here and there,
rents fastened up with a pin, button
holes too large to hold the button,
gloves ripped or out at the finger ends;
and, worse than these, 1 see signs of
untidiness, dried mud on the bottom of
a skirt. stains of food on the front OF
sacque or jacket.
And, going u little higher, see that
face and neck have been carelessIy
washed and that the hair is not com
pletely free from dust nd dandruff.
F, But other mornings the clean girl comes
tripping in, and l am always glad when
! she takes seat beside me. She smells
as fresh as 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 the hair-dresser's
, chair, and her skin has that fresh
wholesome look which the human cpl
der1nis presents when it is kept well
acquainted with both hot and cold
water-one to cleanse and the other tc
| tone up and bring the blood well to the
surface and impart that glow which
! only cold water can give. There may
be a 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 home or in
( the drawing-room. Her hands are soft
and white and her nails always parel
and polished with exquisite neatness.
| L on can feel their cleannoSS When you
shake them, and no matter how close
she may get to you or how much she
may get tousled OF crumpled in romr
with the young folks, she comes out OF
| the scrimmage like a rose whose petals
| have been crushed or rutfied by the
wind or by q careless hand
She doesn't care whether you catch a
glimpse of her feet or ankles, for she
knows how neatly shod and stockinged
they are; nor does she care whether
mischievous hands pull out her hair
pins and tumble her hair down. She
is sure of herself, she knows that those
! brown tresses may be examined by the
most scrutinizing gaze, and yet show
no traces of neglect nor shed any but q
faint perfume. which is the combined
result of her own and the violet's or the
| roses sweetness.
The clean girl is rarely a beautiful
girl, but she has power of fascination
peculiarly her own. She is SO whole
some-looking that the eye, tired O
painted, powdered, puttied-up beauties
turns to her for relief, very much as the
| lips, accustomed to chocolates. caramel
and narshtaallows, long for u bit o
oldfashioned taffy or hunk of new
maple sugar.-N- Y. World