The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-09-27
The pomineerina Girl.

| SNe Is always TALKING III an lHpeTd-
tive tone, regardless of the conversa-
ton of others. Her favorlte position
is in the center of the room. where
nothing which might need her supervi-
ally illustrates her conversation with
commanding gestures and a toss of
the head, meant to imply that her ex-
! ecutive ability Is not to be questioned.
She overrules everyones suggestions
and supplants them with her own bril-
liantly conceived ideas. She is not
popular, but she is in evidence every
where by her own persistence-is the
domineering girl.
In the family circle she monopolizes
the conversation at the table and nev-
er waits for her mother to direct the
maid. She tells her small brother
what he must and must not do, and de-
mands obedience Of her younger sis
ter. She runs her mothers social af-
fairs, and is continual, adjusting the
domestic arrangements to suit her
fancy, thereby meriting the dislike of
the servants.
The domineering girl always wants
to be chairman of every committee in
her class at school. and her one sor-
row is that she cannot be president
of the athletic association and the Y.
M. G. A., and captain of the football
eleven. She could run them to much
better advantage than the acting
heads.
She manages everyone's affairs, and
is offended, if an engagement in her
set is announced before she has had
time to engineer it.
The domineering girl seldom asks a
question, and she never seeks advice.
Instead of suggesting that the Wednes-
day Afternoon club have dance and
invite the men, she announces that it
will have such an entertainment, and
proceeds to make arrangements and
tell the members what is expected of
them. Yet she is tactful. in her own
way, or she could not retain her post
at the head of things.
At dance she is continually walk
ing across the floor with a hurry-up
air, introducing persons indiscrimin-
ately, feeling that upon her depends
tho success of the evening. She drags
a man by the arm and introduces him
to some girl or other with Now, Mr..
Robinson is a splendid dancer. I'm
sure you'll enjoy two-step with him"
So what can the poor man do but ask
the girl to dance? He writes his name
on the card with mental prayer that
he be delivered further from the hands
of the girl who runs his dance orders
for him.
It is seldom that she can find
chum. No girl likes to be continually
with a person who demands that she
lose her identity and walk along
path laid down for her. whether she
will or not. And there is no other
alternative for the girl who chums
with the domineering girl; she will op-
crate their partnership and will brook
no interference.
Men do not like the domineering
girl either as a friend or a sweetheart.
AS friend she wants to manage their
business and map out their social cam
paigns; she wants to choose their
girls and dictate their movements. AS
sweetheart, she wants to do the
counting. She is the one to say where
they will go on Tuesday, and when
they will call on so-an-so. She tells
the conductor they want transfers and
opens the restaurant door. She sim
ply has to be first and foremost in
everything, and she feels that moth
ing is properly done unless she her.
self is doing it or experimenting 1t.
If the domineering girl goes to a
chatting dish supper she is continually
suggesting that the rarebit needs more
cayenne or that they had better put
the cap over the alcohol burner. She
passes things about before the hos
tess Is ready, and tells a man to crack
some nuts because she Is very fond of
them. She is not happy unless some
one Is doing her bidding.
The advice to the domineering girl
is to remember that the other people
have ideas of their own and that their
suggestions may be as good as, or bet
ter than her own. She should not for
get that the sound Of her voice and
the continual commands she Is put
ting forth become tiresome. II she
wants to be popular, girl must not
be domineering; let others have some
say-so in the social game.-Washing-
ton Times.