The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-22

IA Attsmpt to AnaIyze n Young Wona
Who 10 Superior to Aaaiysis.

IA Attempt to Auniyze q Young Woman
Who IL Superior to Analysis.
The Southern girl is many sided. She Is
mettiesome and sentimental, practical and
~fauc!tul by turns, ant to dance divinely and to
Girt. and to be No: over careful nor over indus
ttiuus, but she never fosgets to cay her prayers,
and she has unshaksble faith in humankind.
In mnn she believes implicitly. She may not
believe all the rapturous things he says to her,
but she credits him with generous impulses.
thinks him capable Of all the higher emotions,
and valces him as Q comrade. an admirer and
o repository for romantic confidence. II he
tumbles out of the niche where she has put him,
che wonders, but is willing to regard the case rs
an excel ton and to set him up again. after duo
scoldinC and punishment. She has unbounded
confidence in his ability for smoothing over
rough places for her and removing any obstacles
that may rise In her path. Men are always
good to wnmen. she thinks. her father 10: and SO
10 her brother and her cousin Jim.
She likes music and motion and life ana color.
and plenty OF nice people about her saying
seldom mercsnary. Reared usually among
simple surroundings. the greed for money has
her her to- eHf hase s nstain MsI S seq'i twentieth ts Il RR0s yeSr a lOi
never to have dlned or supped outside OF n pri-
vSte house 10 her life. sho likes the person
who pleases her, Independent Of his extrinsio
ss,en.ioa. Of a good match !" to devote ''f hsrsa i
W nv ihht " ~ AiI utC pbult1 Y u II
has power of entertaining.
She is ingenious and tactful. with all her
daWdling wara and languid airs. She can turn
her last seasons bail dress upside down and in
side ont, ana make 10 look almost rs good as
most ms well a. rrandmother could. and Change
tho furniture round so that the shabby spots
VIII be In the shade. She can arrange q dish
Pf truit to resemble a poem, make an even
ing bonnet out Of next to nothing. and. last but
llos Least, shs Gan rattle on nonsense With an In
Whatever company she Is in.
The Southern girl or woman born In the
murky atmosphere, of the ate sixties. imper-
fectly educated. debarred from advantages
which her parents craved for her. will give the
Maps, a critical examination would not bear out.
Courageous as she Is In an emergency. how
ever, IN her effort to accommodate the family
needs to the family traditions, the Southern girl
often 4. whimsical In her notion of facing facts.
a southern woman who has lived long In tho
Southern city. An ttraotive-iooking girl with
dImples and wonderful dark eyes came forward
Eyes. do sewing she said, but / want to
set you right about something. Was at tho
where Miss b.. the dre.smaker. lived. knew
you must 10 a stranger, because everybody here
knowe US and would know that l was no ordi-
or course the visitor offered to withdraw, and
expressed regret at her apparent intrusion. eI-
directions she had received.
Q no. there IL no 70 m aIs% Dc - ndi - she
mistaken for q dressmaker."
The girl made the gown In question. and
made 1t artistically,
The southern girl is a paradox. with her ca
pacity for unself-hness and absurdity. with her
pride and scorn OF petty meanness and her seri-
ous Btrlyings afte- the economical. She will buy
flowers for the table even II the lardsr is empty,
and II she gets q windfall In the form of a lega-
cy she will pnt half Of IL IN a marble cross for
The church and the other half In some jewel for
personal adjournment even though new curtains
and carpets and whole everyday gowns are o
crying need In the household.
The new woman finds little ENCOURAGEMENT In
the South. She senus out her piping notes to
the Northern suffrage societies and Offers petit
tions 10 the State assemblies, but the popular
voice II against her. and sometimes II comes out
that the womRn's suffrage associations of tho
South, so much talked about. have member
officers.