The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-25

III have heard 1t said many times that
the education OF a girls a much simpler
thing than the education Of boy. II In
stead OF simpler" the words .'lcss ex-
i pensive" had been substituted the axiom
would be- true, but simpler" certainly
not. Who that has the most elementary
idea. OF psychology does not know that
from earliest childhood the depth OF a
little girls mind is hard to tathom?
Il You think you have really understood
4 her character; sou look into the clear
brightness OF the blue eyes. and you feel
the clasp OF the tender little hand. and
& you believe that you hoia the golden key
+ OF that chill heart; but like sudden
storm on a broad Italian lake some thing
unseen has in moment rufrled the SEE
rene calm, and all is changed. You real
iza that beneath the surface there are
storm waves of which you knew nothing,
ana capabilities Of passion OF which you
had not dreamed. and the character
which you fancled you had grasred
proves as elusive as the sunshine Of an
s April day.
With a boy 1t is different. He Is, in.
nursery parlance, good" or naughty"
Il You know where you pre-. When he con-
fides in you. you arA certain that his
confidence Is genuine. He will not tell
you much. but you are almost certain he
tells you as much as he knows himself.
There are no mysterious backwoods into
which his Imagination wanders where
for the life OF him he would not take
you. II you are obliged to reproye. he
listens, dry-eyed. perhaps, and gauges
carefully the sincerity Of your anger: but.
his sister. after flood of tears has criti-
cised your attitude thousand times in.
her own mind has put her little pink
finger on the weakness OF your position.
4 and has realized with certain Inward
satisfaction that It hurt you to find
fault, and therefore. she does not suffer
alone. She has reconnoitered the whole
position and settled how. to meet You In
future combat.
The habit OF reserve grows with tho,
years In little girls. Try an deficit some
4 thing from the child with the shortest
petticoats and the most innocent Of faces
that she does not mean that you. should
\ know, and you will find you have task
before you which demands the subtety
Of Machiayelll.
Moreover. at a very early age, a little
girl shows her appreciation OF any at
atention from the other sex. a boy will
romp 8inpartIally with a man or wo-i
man-it Is nothing to him to which sex
you belong, SO long as you are good a
your game: but the power to please In
a1little girl OF seven is Immediately called
out to win the man who offers to play
with her, and the flushed check and
bright eye are Indications OF the triumph
. of her capture when In the game or
ronap she sees that her manifold charms
are not overlooked.
IT is on account of the extreme dis
similarity OF character SO early shown by
boys and girls that the whole question
of their education Is necessarily comp!l-
Gated. But the girls empire does not last
long; the crown and sceptre are soon
laid aside. AS frocks lengthen and the
streaming hair is tied back, q new regime
begins. Bob has gone to school. Before
he went he was only a boy, whose head
she might punch with lmpunity, and who.
IL retaliation were resorted to, would
have been punished at once for frudencss
TO HlS sls(er, III 1ut the ScHOolopy ES'usuei
with the supreme contempt for girls
which Is donned with the Elton
collar and the first pair ofatrousers, The
whole scene changes, Bob allows his
sister occasionally to sharein HI splensi
Iures. but 1t Is on sufferance, OF course,
no girl can ever bowl or bat; but he does
not mind allowing her to practice, r. no
one is there to see. II there Is any good
thing going, he claims It as g right. and
she glories In giving It to him. for the
great lesson Of woman's sacrifice y 81.
him occasionally school, but he Is
uneasy and uncomfortable as to what
other fellows will think Of his steer,
ana often prefers meet1ng her way from
the haunts Of his friends. So great, In,
daed, has become the morbid sensitive
ness Of the young Englishman With re-
gard to the visits Of his rela tiYes that !