The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-18
Mistakes Of Modern Girls.

New York Press: For pity sake
don't scold your mother in public; il
looks SO!
She may have offended your cultiva,
ted soul almost beyond endurance and
must therefore he severely reprimand'
ed, hut wait till you get home. Then
lake her to your private pertinent
and tell her kindly (thongh of course
she must understand that there is no
nonsense about iD of just what mis-
demeanor she has been guilty.
1t was an uptown restaurant where
/ had dropped in for lunch yesterday.
Opposite me sat young woman Of
seventeen, apparently, and her mo1h-
er. The young, woman was dressed IN
the extreme of fashion, and that her
little turned-up nose shifted the air at
all appeared purely matter Of condes-
censi0n on lis part. Her manners
bore the stamp of Nine. Highfalutin's
Finishing school for young ladies'"
The little plainly, rustily dressed
mother carried a black bag, such as
women in Boston are addicted to.
They had been shopping. | should
saw they were people who had lived i'll
some little town, that the father, had
probably earned his living by hard
work, aud that the mother had done at
least her share of the skimping in or
.ier to give the young lady that elabor-
ate veneering which is deemed essen
lial to the girls Of the day.
That the young thing had learned be-
sides reading, writing and arithmetic
the art of making herself thoroughly
disagreeable and other people uncom-
Portable was evident at a glance. Her
mother, who would have been quite
ut home in a country parlor, was quite
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 or
tlering of the lunch was trying to the
beholder, and she took great care that
all other lunchers present should be
"beholders." The card was mostly
written in French, and the mother
was so intimidated by the agility of
her elegant daughters tongue that she
plunged about little wildly and indi-
Gated that she would have some OF
that"when the sedate attendant indi-
Gated that he would listen to her
wishes.
This annoyed the young lady so that
she snatched the card from her moth
er's hand and ordered the entire lunch
herself.
It turned out to be very schoolgirl
affair and the mother only took of it
an occasional nibble.
The Young person talked very rapid
ly while ma>ticating her food. She
frequently asked hel mother questions,
but never waited Tor an answer.
left the restaurant soon. The f1n-
gers of my strong right hand We're
tingling to encounter In some private
Apartment thisyouug heather and to
apply some Finishing touches" where
they would do the most good.
Do such young women expect to
make good impression upon think
ing people. by snubbing their mother
because their tongues haven't been
trained to cut up French didoe-?
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
daughters make them 50 miserable is
that they don't give them good lick
ing.
The lady graduate of a finishing
school or a cooking school is she who
makes other people comfortable.