The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-09-17
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FROM SIXTEEN TO TWENTY
Girls Look Only on the Bright and
Pleasant Side Of Life.

GIFTS Look only on the bright ana
Pleasant Side of Life.
A young man addresses to Edward
w. Box the query: "Why is it that in
so many cases, l might almost say the
majority of cases, Il quiet, well be-
haved, earnest-lninded, religious young
mans seriousness is ignored by so
many girls between sixteen and
twenty, and the company of giddy,
idle, senseless youths preferred?" and
i'll the Ladies' Home Journal editorial
reply is made. Mr.. Box contends that
girls at that age take few things Seri-
ously, and are not given to looking
upon the serious side of life; that only
the bright. pleasant side attracts them.
at is only natural that to Il girl of
srch an age the young man of bright
conversation, tlippant and n eanjngless
though that talk may be, has an indie
Unable attraction. She would far rath-
er have it that he can dance well than
that he can recitc Emerson to nor. 1t
is the dancing time of her life, and not
the Emeraonian period. She is apt to
notice a mans clothes more than his
character. She likes the man better
who pays her Il pretty compliment
tAA'tiA LIN oii1 II u ~ WILL
Gus. s. ST The young mar who pays
her graceful attentions is pleasing to
her: she does not seek to penetrate be-
You'd the mere compliment. And why
should she! Young men are simply
one form of her amusement; she does
not take them any more seriously than
she does anything else. The young
man OF ~presentable appearance, who
dresses well and has a command of
the small talk of society, is her girlish
Jack-in-the-boX. The more attention
he pays her, the more he f1atters her,
the better she is apt TO like him. The
earnest young man who has ambition,
who studies and learns. whose talk is
sensible rather than light, is d bit tire
some to her. She may admire his high
purposes so far as she can grasp them.
She may respect him. But if she is
going to q party she does not val his
company. She passes him by for the
Other fellow who is graceful in the
dance. And is she to be blamed or CEN
Sured for this! Not n bit Of it. While
she is a girl she does as q natural.
healthy girl should; she lives her years
of enjoyment and gets as much pleas
ure out of them as she car. For this
she is Il girl. But if he will watch her
after she counts her years with the
figure two he will observe that slowly
but surely a process of gradual deyel-
0pment takes place in the girl whom
he believed to be without thought or
reason. And equally sure will be his
discovery that the companion of her
dances is not 80 eagerly welcomed by
her as once he was. He will then
gradually discover that the girl is not
the light-minded butterfly that he
thought her to be. She becomes inter
ested in other things; conversations
which bored her a year or two earlier
now begin to have some meaning for
her. She begins to regard the internal
value Of things. She locks at young
men from a different standpoint. The
young man who can simply dance well
does not represent the same thing to
her. She begins to look for something
else in the young men who come to
her. The woman has simply begun to
develop, the girl is ceasing to be-