Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-07-25


happy fellow 10 the world.
In absolute contrast to the girl whose
first season 1t is, Is that other girl who
has danced and pranced through three
seasons, and yet the right man hasn't
come. She Is Inclined to be cynical.
She talks about men in way she thinks
smart, but which is decidedly bitter.
Somehow you feel like reminding herof
the fox and the sour grapes. But,
although she says such vicious things
about the noble sex, still, when there are
no other women around. she is very
subservient to the men, because she
doesn't want to be neglected. Then
there is the elderly beau. He IS apt TO
be horrd old beast, rather free In his
manners with the girls, and claiming
that this is his special right, because he
is old enough 10 be their father. He
reminds each chaperon of her age by
telling her Of some ball "given thirty
years ago, about year or two after you
were married" 1t seems scarcely neces-
sary to say that he is not favorite with
them. Hewill dance. And, as he goes
at 1t with great fervor, he gets horribly
red in the face, and his partner breads
his having an attack of apoplexy there
and then. Very prominent is the clever
girl. She is not great dancer, and she
wears Eyeglasses. She has been to one
OF the colleges, and can write B. A. after
her name, and seems likely to retain the
b., as moaning
BACHELOR, ALL HER LIFE.
She talks to the men about the advan-
tages of equal education and snubs all
women who don'tAnow as much as she
does. l must confess am not very fond
of her. She is not a girly girl.
Another type, certain to be found at
the summer dance, is the nervous young
man. He is always dreadfully afraid
that his step wont go with yours,
always agitated about the music, and
always fearful that, If he has to take
girl into the supper room, she wont get
what she wants. He makes everybody
else nervous, and girls fly when they see
him coming. OF course, the man fiirtis
to the fore. He always chooses for
partner the girl who is shorter than he
is, for he likes to look down into her
eyes. He knows how 10 give pressure
to her hand, pressure that she couldn't
speak of, for she doesn't quite know
whether be meant ii, since Ii seemed SO
slight Very often he is married, and
likes TO tell young girls about his un-
happiness; how his wife has never
grown with him, and hoy her thoughts
arc entirely given to the material side
of life. Oh, yes. he is a scoundrel, bat
am sorry TO say there are great many
OF him, and the wife about whom he
talks is infinitely better than he is. As
for the girl with whom he is flirting, 1t
must be said that her ctaperon is very
poor one, else she would have inter
fered and explained him long ago. By.
the-by, that is the duty of a chaperon.
She must make her charge cognizant of
the desirability and lack of it possessed
by the men who surround her. But
always she must make her comprehend
that the married flirt is a something
from which she must shy.
THE FAST YOUNG MAN,
who isn't fast enough TO hurt, dances in
languid sort Of way. has large gar
denia in his buttonhole, and tries his
best TO look as if he usually went in for
something little gayer than this sort
Of thing. Much is to be forgiven him.
He has an idea that, to be "a man of
the world" as he calls it, is fine, and he
doesn't realize that real men of the
world are never like him. Still he is |
young, and only bit of fool, and he |
wont do the girl any harm, so most of |
us look at him little charitably. |
The pretty girl is interesting. She is the |
girl who, from the time she knew any
thing, has been told of her charms. |
Now, she isn't a beauty. She is just a
pretty girl, who is over-conscious. She
is not very well known here, and she Is |
not receiving all the attention she thinks |
she should, and she can't understand il. |
She knows she is we'll dressed, and she |
knows she is pretty, and she doesn't |
realize that the agreeable girl is more
sought after by men than that one whose
form of belief is expressed in one line.
81 believe in my own beauty" She will |
get many hard hit before the summer
is over, and she will go back home a
more sensible girl. OF course, her peo-
pie are to blame. Personal experience
has proved to me that the beauty of
family is usually disappointment. The
constant praise given her by her kin |
makes the appreciation she has of her
self offensive TO the rest of the world, |
while the seltishness which it has Gre.
ated convnces them that she is not a
pleasant companion.
THE SWEETEST OF THEM ALL.
The popular girl is that one who
wants, not only to have good time her
self, put likes all the other girls to be in
It, too. She isn't dressed any mere than
else, and she doesn't claim more
than anybody else. She is good tenn
pered aud appreciative, and decidedly
the most delightful girl with whom to
spend the summer. There is nothing
quite so nice as nice girl, and that a
man should fall In love with one is per-
fectly understandable. The really nice
girl has womanly little ways. She is
willing TO mend a torn coat, and shows
that she is mistress of the needle and
thimble when the result is seen. She is
willing to beat eggs or pound sugar
when they are arranging basket for
picnic, and she is equally willing to read
q chapter in the last new novel when
her turn comes. When they are getting
up tableauX she isn't anxious to be the
central figure and pose as Trilby, but
she may be counted ON to help the Others
and to take the position that is offered
to her. But with it all she has an opih-
ion of her own, and she is not simply
to be made use Of She is the really nice
girl
THE GIRL you AND BOTH LOVE-
who respects her father and mother and
does her duty In the way of making life
pleasant To everybody wherever she
may be. She is the one you like to see
gowned in white satin and crowned
with orange blossoms as your sons
bride. She is the best type OF American
girl. There are plenty of her. You
needn't be cynical and say you don't
marry because you can't find girl like
this. You haven't hunted for her. She
is climbing the mountains, rowing over
the lake. swimming in tho ncnan or