The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-01-11
VOLUME XXVII.---NO. %.
Mistakes Of Modern Girls.

For PHYS sake don't scold your mother
in public il leoks so ugly
She may have offended your cultivated
soul almost Beyond endurance, and must
therefore be severely reprimanded, but
wait Till you get home. Then take her
to your private apartment and tell her
kindly enough of course she must un.
derstand that there is no nonsense about
it, Of just wha, misdemeanor she has
been guilty.
1t was an uptown restaurant where !
had dropped in for lunch yesterday.
Opposite me sat young woman of sev.
enteep, apparently, and her mother. The
young woman WAS dressed in the extreme
of fashion, and that her little turnedup
nose shifted the air at all appeared pure.
ly matter of eondescension on its part.
Her manners bore the stamp of Nine
Highfalutio's finishing school for young
ladies'"
The little plainly, rustily dressed
mother carried black bag, such as wo
men in Boston are addicted to. They
had been shopping. I should say they
were people who had lived in some little
town, that the father had probably
earned his living by hard work, and that
the mother had done at least her share of
the skimping in order to give the young
lady that elaborate vsnsering which is
deemed essential to the girls of the day.
That the young thing had learned be-
sides reading, writing and arithmetic, the
art of making herself thoroughly diss.
greeab!e and other people uncomfortable
was evident at glance. Her mother,
who would have been quite at home in
country psrlor, was out of place here.
The consciousness of it need not have
been forced upon her, however, if her
STRIPPING daughter had been possessed of
more heart and less style.
The young lady's fuss over the order
ing of the lunch was trying to the be.
holder and -he took great care that all
other lunchers present should be "be.
holders The card WAS mostly written
in French and the mother was 30 insim-
idxted by the agility of her elegant
daughters tongue that she plunged
about little wildly and indicated that
she would have some of. ."that" when the
sedste attendant indicated that be would
listen to her wishes.
This annoyed the young lady so that
she snatched the card from her mothers
hand and ordered the entire lunch her.
self. 1t turned out to be very school
girl affair aud the mother only took OF it
e. occasional nibble
The young person talked very rapidly
while masticatiDg her food. She fire
quently asked her mother questions, but
never waited for an answer.
left the restaurant soon. The fingers
of my s.rorg right haad were tingling to
encounter in some private apartment
this young hesthen and to apply some
finishing touches" where they would do
the most goud
Do such young women expect TO make
good impression upon thinking people
by snubbing tbeil mothers because their
tongues haven't been trained to cut up
French didoea?
Don't they know that by cheerfully
explaining city or other ways their
mothers don't understand they will gain
the respect of any people whose regard is
worth accepting?
The only thing have against the
mothers who let their ungrateful daugh'
ters make them SO miserable is that they
don't give them good licking.
The lady graduate of finishing school
or cooking school is she who makes
other people comfortable.-Ne,O York
Press