The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-12-23
Ghe1emurraf-S Star
CLEAN AND WHOLESOME.

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Some one has been writing
about the clean girl. Did you ever
see hery | mean the clean girl
the girl who always koks neat and
we'll gr0omed unler all circum-
stances, says the New York Morn
iag Journal. As The old saying is,
clay wouldn't stick TO her. But
whether il would or moi il doesn't,
for the simple fact that she never
gives il a chance. Ii she were
condemned TO die on the scaifnlc
she'd SIT up all hight tn wash and
iron her fchu and skirts and hani-
kerchiefs, ETC., aud she would be
late at the ceremony on accoun: OF
her careful toilet. The clean girl
is rarely a fashionable girl; she
belongs rather to the old maid or
der or prinky sort. Some morn
ings on my way down town in a
street car l amuse myself by look
ing around for the clean girl. On
the contrary | see many things
which surprise me-bullons off or
hanging by one thread, raveled
edges here AMI there, rents fasten-
ed up with a pin, buttonholes too
large TO hold the button, gloves
ripped or out al the finger ends ;
and, worse than these, ! e signs
of untidiness, dried mud on the
bottom ola skirt, STAINS OF food on
the bottom of a skirt, Stains of
food on The front Of a sacque or
Jacket. And going a little higher,
see that the lace and neck have
been ca~relessly washed and that
the hair is not completely free
from dust and dandrrff. But 9th
er mornings The clean girl comes
tripping in, and | am glad when
she takes a seat beside me. She
smells as fresh as a clover field,
and she looks it, too. The scalp
beneath her soft brown hair is as
free from dust and dandrnff as il
she hal just left The hair-lres,er's
chair, and her skin has that fresh,
wholesome lo,k which the human
epldermls presents when il is kept
well acquainted with both hot and
cold water-one to cleanse and the
other TO tone up and bring The
blood we'll to the surface and i'm
part tina, glow which only cold WA
ter can give. There may be a
trace OF rice powder on the clean
girls face, hut II is. very slight,
just barely enough to remove the
shine. But to appreciate the clean
girl you should meet her own home
or in the drawing room. Her
hands are soft and white and her
nails always pared and polished
with exquisite neatness. Y'u can
feel their cleanness when you
shake them, and no matter how
close she may get 10 You or how
much she may gel tonsled or
crumpled in Il romp with the
yong folks, she comes out Of the
scrimmage like II rose whose pc,
tails have been crushed or ruffled
by the wind or by Il careless han |.
She doesn't care whether you
catch a glimpse Of her feet or an
kles, for she knows how neatly
shod and slockinged they are; nor
does she care whether mischiev-
GUS hands pull out her hairpin>
and tumble her hair down. She
is sure of he.:self, she knows that
those brown tresses may be exam
ined by the most srru'inizing gaze
and yet show no traces of neglect
nor shed any but a faint perfume,
which is the combined result Of
her own and The violtt's or the
roses sweetness. The clean girl
is rarely a beautiful girl, bu, she
has a power of fascination pecn
Iiarly her own. She is 80 whole
some-looking that the eye, tired of
painted, powdered, pu,tied. w
beauties, turns TO her for relief,
very much as the lips, accustomed
10 chocolates, caramels and marsh
mallOws. long for a bit Of 0ld.fash
Toned taify or Il hunk oi new maple.
sugar.