The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-19
THE CLEAN GIRL.
The One Who Looks Neat and Well
GrooIned Under All Circumstances.

The One Who Looks Neat and Well
Grooned Under All Circumstances.
Did you ever see her? | 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
| scaffold 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 prinl1y sort. Some
mornings on my way down town in
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. travelled 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, | see signs of
untidiness, dried mud on the bottom of
a skirt, stains of food on the front of a
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 dandruT.
But other mornings the clean girl comes
tripping in, and | am always glad when
she takes q seat beside me. She smells
as fresh as a clover field, and looks it,
too.
The scalp beneath her soft brown
hair is as free from dust and dandrun
as if She had Just left the hair-dresser's
chair, and her skin has that fresh,
wholesome look which the human cpl.
derlnis presents when it is kept well
acquainted with both hot and cold
water-one to cleanse and the other &c
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 1T her own nome or iu
the rawing-roon. Her hands are soft
and white and her nails always pared
and polished with exquisite rcatness.
You can feel their clcanness when You
shake them, and no matter how close
she may get to you or how much she
may get touslei Or crumplcd in a romT
with the young folks, she comes out of
the scrimmage like 4 rose whose petals
have been crushed or rutiled 10y the
wind or by Il careless hand.
She doesn't care whether you catch n
glimpse of her feet or ankles, for she
knows how neatly shod and stocllinged
they are: nor does she care whether
mischieveus 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 she'd any but
faint perfume, which is the combined
result of her own and the violct's or the
rose 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 eve, tired of
painted, powdered, puttied-up beauties,
turns to her for relief, very much as the
lips, accustomed to chocolates, caramels
and marshmallows, long for bit of
old-fashioned taffy or hunk OF new
maple sugar.-N. y. World.