The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-01-24
THE SOUTHERN GIRL.
Unsuspicious of the Possibility
of Danger.
SHE IS ALSO APT TO BE CONCEITED.
How She Looks Upon Northeners, East
erners and Westerners-Suprem
Indifferent About Social Vogue.

In her manner of treating the oppo-
site sex, the Southern girl has also her !
own way. She is more free and easy,
undoubtedly, but close study of her
will reveal the fact that she is more
apt 10 put man on his honor than |
her sisters of other sections are. She is
so unsuspicious of the possibility of
danger that that very fact greatly de-
creases the danger. The best type of
Southern girls may do, in public,
what Northern girl would consider
fast; but the chances are that her pri-
vate actions would contradict such an
impression.
She has the Southern attribute of
spontaneous feeling and warmth of
heart, and this will always be found
stronger i'll her than conventionality.
But if the Southern girl is charming
she is also apt to be conceited in a way,
and so despise the advantages which
she does not possess. She is also indo.
lent and without due proportion in
many things. She thinks lightly of
learning, because she is unlearned her
self she attaches no Importance to art,
because she knows nothing but nature.
She is supremacy indifferent about
social vogue, because there is literally
no one whom she looks up to. She
holds, backed up by the facts of history,
that most of the good blood in the
country is in the Southern State, and,
in perfectly kindly way. she looks
upon Northerners. Fasteners and
Westerners as less fortunate sisters,
but in spite of this cherished convic-
ton, she is incapable of arrogance.
Until lately-for it must be admitted
that it is not now as true as formerly
she was Indifferent about money, but
stickler for blood. Enormous for
tunes smacked to her of vulgarity and
she associated ideas of display and COM
monness with them. Mere poverty,
on the contrary, never had any aspect
that was either unrefned or unuigni-
fed to her, and she had proved, by ex-
perience, that in this state all her ideas
of ladyhood and good breeding could
be fully realized. The Southern girl &
position in the home is pleasing, adj
mirable and, in some ways, almost
naive one, particularly as regards hei
attitude toward her mother. She is
very slow in outgrowing, and in some
cases she never does outgrow. the sub
serviency and Difference usually held tt
be only incumbent upon daughter
while very young. In some ms stances
even married woman with children
of her own innocently recognizes tn,
law of obedience to parents, and con
cedes to her mother the right to tel
her what to do and what not to do, a
she did in childhood. In the same wa,
she becomes law to her own children
and that modern spirit of Arrogance
toward parents, often met with il
other sections, is rarely found in tn
South.
!, Every one, certainly every man, ha
noticed the characteristic bearing of
Southern girl toward men, especial,
in society. The traditions of man,
generations have taught her to TAX
!, naturally the position that womel
must be sought, and with the Southern
girl of the best type this is paramount
still. AS result, men find that sh
pleases them, without effort, and tn
very absence Of this effort to whicl
unfortunately they are too accustomed
makes her infinitely more pleasing
This gives her also, in many cases, tn
certain air of languor and Incidence
which, in itself invites to effort on til
mans part to rouse and please.
Another lack in the Southern gil
is that energy and capacity for bust
ness and self-support which so charac
: terizes her Northern sisters, and which
f in population of such great femal
2 excess, cannot be too much rel. sliced al
t but this, too, costs something. and tn
t Southern woman who acquires it lose
g something of her charm.
r In conclusion. it is apropos to quot
g an anecdote published years ago br
:, having such significance. in this col
s nection. that it may be repeated:
0 In a Virginia town, a very sma
/ specimen of the Southern girl was lool
s ing out Of the window, when she su,
u denly remarked to her aunt:
d 80, auntie. there goes the JON
= children! They are awful. You can
imagine how bad they are. They tie
n stories and disobey their mother, an
e everything; and if they are that ba
n when they are little. just expe
!. they'll every one grow up to be Yal
i keesp'
e With this inherent point Of view,
v is not surprising that the Southerner
8 rather lamentably creature of pref
is dice; and yet when all is said and don
II the young girls of that race, at leas
II are beings of such undeniable char
ic that one may well be forgiven for T
!. tanning, even after full knowledge
st them, prejudice in their favor.
/. Julia Magruder.