The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-01-11
Mistakes OF Modern Girls.
For pity's sake don't acold yeur mother

For pity's sake don't tacold yeur mother
in public; it locks so uglyl
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 (tbough of course she must un-
derstand that there is no nonsense about
it) of iust what misdemeauor she has
been guilty.
It was an uptown restaurant where I
had dropped in for lunch yesterday.
Opposite me sat young woman of sew
enteen, apparently. and her mother. The
young woman was dressed in the extreme
of fashion, and that her little turned.up
nose shifted the air at all appeared pure.
ly a matter of eondescension on its part.
Her manners bore the stamp of Nine.
Highfalutin's finishing school for young
ladies'"
The little plainly, rustily dressed
mother carried black, bag, such as NO.
men in Boston are addicted to. They
had been shopping. 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 vensering 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 disa
greeable and other people uncomfortable
was evident at glance. Her mother,
who would have been quite at home in q
country parlor, 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 she took great care that all
other lunchers present should be "be.
holders" TIE card was mostly written
in French, and the mother was 30 intim.
idated 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
sedate 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 and the mother only took of it
an occasional nibble.
The young person talked very rapidly
while maslicatipg her food. She fre
quently asked her mother questions, but
never waited for an answer.
left the restaurant soon. The = "gera
of my strong right hand we're tiugling to
encounter in some private apartment
this young heathen and to apply some
finishing touches" where they would do
the most good.
Do such young women expect to make
good impression upon thinking people
by snubbing their mothers because their
tongues haven't been trained to cut up
French didoes?
Don't they know that by cheerfully
explaining city or other ways their
mothers dent understand they will gain
the respect Of any people whose regard is
worth accepting?
The only thing I have against the
mothers who let their ungrateful daugh.
tiers make them SO miserable is tha! they
don't give them good licking.
The lady graduate of finishing school
or cooking school is she who makes
other people comfortable.-NesO York
Press.