Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-02-17
THE SOUTHERN GIRL.
An Attempt to AnAiyse a Young Woman
 Who Is superior to Anaiysis-

An Attempt to AuaiyEe a Nsung Woman
 Who Is superior to Anaiysis-
 The southern girl k many sided
 She is mettle-ome and sentimental
 uractcal and faaciiul by turns. apt
 to dance div.uely and Go fiirt and to
 be not oycrcarefUl nUr overindus-
 trious. but she never forgets to say her prayers, and she has unshaka-
 ble faith in humankind
 In man she believes implicitly,
 She may not believe all the raptur- ous things he says to her, but she credits him with generous impulses, q inks him csplJle of all the higher emotions and value, him as com rade, an admirer and a repository for romantic confidence. 1T he tum- bles out of the niche where she has put him, she wonders, but k willing 10 regard the case as an exception and to set him up again, after due scolding and punishment She hls unbOuuded confidence in his ability for smoothing over rough places for her and removing any obstacles that may rise in her path Men are al ways good to women, she thinks her father is. and so is her brother and her cousin Jim.
 The southern girl enjoys with all her heart. She likes music and mo- uon and life and color and plenty of nice people about her saying pleasant things. She likes all this, but she k seldom mercenary. Rear ed usually among simple surround. ings, the greed for money has not entered into her soul IL k possible for her to have attained her twen- tieth year and never to have dinej or supped outside If private house ! in her life She likes the person who pleaseS her, independent of his eXtrinsic surroundings. and at any time will slight the attentions of a good match to devote herself 10 l the man whose waltz step suits her l and who has power of entertaining.
 She is ingenious and taCtful. with l all her dawdling ways and languid 1 airs. She can turn her last seasons ! ball dress upside down and inside ! out and make 1t look almost as good as new, and she can darn the ] parlor curtains almost as well as grandmother could and change the furniture round so that the shabby | spots will be in the shade. She can l arrange a dish of fruit to resemble ! a poem. make an evening bonnet l out of next to nothing. and, last but ! not least. she can rattle of nonsense ! with an infectious delight that ! makes hey the Ileof N hatever com ! pany she k in |
 The southern girl or woman born i in the murkv a-ucsphere of the late sixties, imVeTist " eiuelted, debar- red from advantages which her par ents crave1 for her. will give the stranger an impression of culture which perhaps 8 critical examina- tion would not bear out.
 The southern girl is a paradox, 1 with her capacity for uuSelfshness and absUrdity. with her pride and scorn of petty meanEess and her serious strivings after the econom- ! ical She will buy flowers for the table even If the lander is empty, and if she gets a yvindfau in the form of a legacy she will put half ! of 1t in a marble cross fr~ -hc church and the other haIg ln some jewel for personal adOrnmcnC even though new curtains and carpets and whole everyday gowns are a crying need in the household.
 The new woman finds little en- in the south. Shesends | out her piping notes to the northern suffrage societies and offers peu- tions to the state assemblies, but the voice Is against her, and sometimes 1t comes out that the woman's $ suffrage associations of the south, 50 much talked about. have membership only sufficient to furnish the necessary officers. New York Sun,