The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-19
AN UP-To-DATE GIRL.
She Bosses the Whole Family in Ev.
 cry Matter.

Eliot Gregory in The Century Magazine
 while visiting recently in a neighboring cltv was placed at dinner next to a di-
 ninutive damsel. who entertained me-
 curing the meal with her opinions on men and matters. The talk had a sub navor or the strong. minded, oddly out of keeping with her winsome face and doll
 iike ngure; but the face was so. pretty and the chatter so amusing that after a tlme one forgot this disagretabIe. impress
 sion. Later in the evening, when the otI- CT guests had left. I asked my hostess who the energetic little maidn was With
 half-smile she answered: Miss B IS very modern person. I thought you would lind her interesting. couple of
 years ago her parents, who I s,ispect
 had begun to find their offsprine hand full yielded to the daushters reouest to
 go abroad and finish her education. naive " imagining that she would settle in some quiet old town like Dresden or Hanover
 A relative was chosen as a duenna n
 bank-account opened. and the couple
 started with the understanding that their destination should be decided on by the girl herself. Well. you will think I am romancing when I tell you that, after A month In Paris and tentative week at
 Cannes. Miss B. established herself at Monte Carlo for the winter It Is need
 less to add that her education was f1r1- | '-hed with vengeance not 1,'ite on t~e | lines her parents had intended. but with
 staggering completeness When she got | h' ok from this aventful journev the trav- | e'er proceeded to give her pareits the ben | eft of her experience. They wer hustled nolens volens ont of a suburban home and established in town house. as their daughtr announced that sh har no in-
 tention of wasting her life in the coun-
 try. Having accomplished this feat, and furnished the new residence with pictures and bric-a- -hrac picked up during her trip
 abroad. hired corps of servants and
 made out visiting list for her mothers
 use, the girl, who was not prepared to
 marry just vet, next turned her atten-
 tion to the parental investments, upon which she brought the light of her new
 ideas to bear, II faut etre de son siecle.' l>iS her faVorite saying. When the family
 money matters were running to her sat | isfaction, Miss B.. nothing If not act i've. devoted her time to organizing a kennel for the breeding of bulldogs of
 some particular form or color, I forget which. "A woman, she says. must have
 s me serious object in life, and she tells | me that the way this special breed has been allowed to run down over here Is a | disgrace to the Ameriuan people. For | breach, and proposes to raise the stand | ard, at no matter what personal incon | venience, to the English level. It appears
 that Minotaur the famous flve-thousand- | dollar prize-winner, is on his way across | the ocean to join her kennel"
 This girl may or may not be fair sam
 pie of her kind. but that there are hun dreds of households in our land today
 where parents, from ignorance or indo- | lence. are allowing themselyes to be run
 elf-evident that in all classes of so-
 ciety except certain conservative circles
 where continental standards are observ .d.
 the Yankee girl has seized the helm. With
 father and mother comfortably installed | in the cabin and male members of the
 crew forbidden to approach the bridge,
 she is guiding the family bark. summer
 and winter, according to her pleasure.