Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-05-18
SOMETHING ABOUT GIRLS.

SOMETHING ABOUT GIRLS.
In continuation of my article in
issue of May 4th, Twill now under
take to write about four other classes
of girls, their virtues and their fail
ings.
First, jealous girls. People gem
orally vote this class very great
nuisance indeed, and yet how many
are there who are not Jealous !?
Very few, you may be sure; bat
jealousy is quality that most girls
strive assiduously TO conceal. They
know the cruel taunts and sneers
that are launched at them wholesale
by their own sex if they should be
guilty of any public display of this
most unpleasant and painful quality,
to say nothing of the smiles and
thinly veiied inueudoes from the OPP
posite sex, so that early in life girl
gets, to know that, suffer what she
may from jealousy, she must ut all
hazard keep that suffering concealed
from the world. But there are some
girls who cannot do this. They
must parade their wrongs, or fancied
wrongs, and resent every little slight
or neglect before everyone, thereby
causing great annoyance to all who
have to listen, and adds to the
ill-concealed triumph of the
lady who may have caused the
mischief. Girls OF this sort are
called jealous, although it does
not follow at al. The girl who
causes scene through fit of pique
or Jealousy, is perhaps not nearly so
jealous as the girl who appears to
have taken no notice OF the offence.
but who has nursed her wrath in
silence and bided her time. Nothing
can be more reprehensible than this
display of weakness, and we should
think a girl who would thus parade
her wounded(?) feelings before the
public has anything but nice sense
of what lady's conduct should be
through life. Such events, when
they do occur, Should be locked mp
IN the inmost recesses of the heart,
teaching them a lesson that in the
future they must be more careful
upon whom they centre their afTec-
tions; and that it must be a happy
riddance the getting away from one
who thus wantonly tramples upon
their affections.
Second, girls who cost money.
Girls generally DO cost money, more
or less; that every one knows, but
there is class of young ladies whose
chief boast Is what they can get out
of the male sex. She does not care
for lover unless he is prepared to
offer her plenty Of presents from
time to time; she does not care to 90
out with him unless be takes her
somewhere, theatre, a concert
fair or something of the sort, and
she must go to the best part of the
house, else she would not appreciate
the performance. Sometimes they
get married and find to their chagrin
that the lover who was so profuse
with his money in the courting DAYS
is far from having a leaning that
way after marriage, and it not un.
frequently happens that the lover
has spent so muchin attempting to
cut dash during courtship that he
goes to his wedding head over ears
in debt. TINS is, of course, mainly
due to the girls excessive desire to
cost money; but the lover is also very
much to blame. Young men of
limited means should avoid these
girls they would apestilence; surely
mans own sense ought to tell him
that if young lady cannot enjoy his
company unless surrounded by the
excitement of the theatre, concert or
the fair grounds, if she cannot 90
for walk or a drive with him with
out inveighling him into buying
for her, he may be quite
sure that she does not care very much
for him. No, young men. Gnclud-
ing myself) if you admire these girls,
spend your money on them, firt with
them, make donkeys of yourselves for
them if you will, but don't, pray
don't, marry them, or else you will
live but short time before you will
discover your mistake. These girls
are intensely selfish and no one, we
think, can suppose for moment that
this besetting sin will disappear after
marriage; it is inherent in their
nature, and cost money they will, no
matter where the money comes from,
and sometimes the getting of it leads
to consequences of the direst kind.
Our papers too often give us striking
of the result of marry
ing extravagant and selfish women.
Third, girls without sweethearts.
This class of girl is usually very
much pitied by those young ladies
who possess lovers, but occasionally