The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-02-07
THE PLAGUY GIRLS.
We Have No Record of Them as
Ever Having Been Born, But
They lust Grew Up.
Essay by A. F. Parkinson, Esq, As
Read Before The Northwood
Literary Society
iPublished by REQUEST. J

Girls, the beautiful little creatures,
never were born, but grew. We have
no record of any girls until we read of
Cain going into the Land Of Nod, and
took unto himself wife. So they must
have sprung up in that land, like a mush-
room on the Dakota prairies Girls those
days were not much as we find them at
the present time. Just imagine the girl
OF to-day going into her dressing room
and finding it destitute of the evening
dress, the curling iron, the box of Lily
White or cream balm, and the Blush of
Rose to put on that beautiful rosy cheek
we all so much admire. Then again
imagine the disappointment of her fellow
that evening, when he goes to part with
her, not to get mouthfu! of paint But
girls these days do not grow so fast. The
first we notice the girl is when she is
old enough to start to school, Then we
see troops of them trotting off to school
with book in hand, and hear their merry
laugh, and the clatter of their little ton
CUES, as they practice their mothers fav-
orte pleasure of "having the last word.
Then we see her as she is all fixed up in
her best Sunday clothes trotting off to
Sunday school. "See the swing she has!"
Even at this aye she has the pride so
characteristic of the American people.
Then again we see her as her mamma has
fixed her up to attend some children
party, and some innocent little boy steps
. up to her, and lays his hand on the
sleeve of her dress to express his admira-
ton of her, and she says "don't touch
mo, you will get my clean dress all dirty"
Poor little fellow, mortified, chagrined
and ashamed, he looks all around to see
if any one has heard it, finding there has
not, he slips off to play with the other
boys Girls amusements differ very
much from those OF the boy. She will
play for hours with her dolls and dishes.
While the boy, not content with so quiet
amusement, gets out, ties tin cans to the
neighbours dogs tail. Then says "sick-
en-" The last seen of the dog he was
going down the back alley at 2:40 gait,
and all the boys in town after him. But
am loosing sight of the girl She is
now getting old enough to fix her own
hair. 1t has to be banged and crimped
and cured, and it takes all the evening
after school to get it up on papers or tin
leads, and all the morning before school
hours to get it down again. She annoys
her teacher by writing notes to her fell
low, for she is getting so she is looking
for fellow by this time. She is now
getting ready to 90 to party for the first
time in long dresses, and attempts for
the first time to curl her hair with a
curling iron, and burns her ear, drops
the iron on the floor and burns hole in
the carpet. At last she has the tedious
task finished She looks for her sisters
powder and finds it First seeing that
the door is securely locked" proceeds to
put it on. She gets through and wonders
il any one will notice it. At last she is
ready and goes down to the parlor to wait
for Tommie. Tommie comes and they
start out, she forgets her fan and has to
go back after it. At the party at last
Her chum is there waiting for her, and
they trot off to the cloak room to take off
her wraps. "Ohl My, Laura" she says
when they get where the light strikes
her face. "What have you got on your
face2" by the dim light OF room she has
got the powder on in streaks and patches
and she looks as though she had just
come out OF -four barrel.
The next year is perfect round of
pleasure, dances, socials, picnics and
pleasure rides; the ever attentive Tom
mic by her side supplying her wants OF
candy, lemonade, soda water and ice
cream. Her brother attempts TO hug her
occasionally and muses. her rufiies and
gets cuffed for it.. But Tommie comes
that evening and makes the most hope
less, terrible, wreck Of that rufiie, lace or
footing it can be distorted into and the
reproof he gets is the reproachful MUIR
muir, "mnst you go so soon2" Then he
does not make a move TO go until the
alarm clock goes of up stairs, and the
old man is heard around building the
fire In the kitchen stove. He gently gets
out and skips for home. While she
slips quietly into her room changes her
dress, and goes out into the kitchen gap
ing and yawning as though she had just
been aroused from a sound slumber
At last Tommie and Laura are married,
after the usual wedding trip is over,
they go TO keeping house. The first
thing they do is to put up kitchen
stove. One that Tommie's father has
given them TO start with. Tommie gets
himself perched on two chairs, and gets