Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-03
The Domlneering Girl.

She Is always talking in an impera-
tive tone. regardless Of the CONVERSE
tion of others. Her favorite position is
In the center of the room, where no.
thing which might need her supervi-
sion Will escape her notice. She usually
illustrates her conversation with COM
manding gestures and a toss of the
heard, meant to imply that her supervl-
ability Is not to be questioned She
oyerrules every ones suggestions and
supplants them with her own brilliant
~ conceived Ideas. She is not popular.
but she Is in evidence everywhere by
her own persistence-is the domlneer-
ing girl.
On the family circle she monopolizes
the conversation at table and never
waits for her mother to direct the
maid. She tells her small brother
what some other girl or other with
Now. Mr., Robinson Is q splendid
dancer. Pm sure you'll enjoy a two
step with him" SO what can the poor
man do but ask the girl 10 dance? He
writes his name on card with a men,
tai PRAYER that he he delivered further
from the hands of the girl who runs
his dance orders for him.
II is seldom that she can find a
chum. No girl likes to be continual,
with a person who demands that she
lose her own personality IN following
along path laid down for her, wheth-
er she VIII or not. And there Is no
other alternative for the girl she will
operate their partnership and will
brook no interference.
Men do not like the domineering girl.
either as a friend or a sweetheart. As
a 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 a
sweetheart, she wants to do the court
Ing. She Is the one to say where they
VIII go on Tuesday. and when they will
call on Helen Armstrong. She tells the
conductor they want transfers and
opens the restaurant door. she simply
has TO be first and formeost In every
thing, and she feels that nothing is
properly done unless she herself Is do
ing It or superin tending II.
She runs her mothers social
affairs and is continually add
Justing the domestic arrangements to
suit her fancy. thereby merltng the
dislike OF the servants.
The domineering girl always wants
TO be chairman Of every committe In
her class at school. and her one sor-
row Is that she cannot be president Of
the athletic association and the Y. NJ.
c. A. and captain OF the football
eleven. She could run them to much
better advantage than the acting
heads.
She manages every ones love affairs
and Is offended II an engagement In her
set Is announced before she has had
time to engineer II.
The domlneerlng girl seldom asks
question and never seeks advice In
stead Of suggesting that the Wednes-
day Afternoon Club have dance and
invite the men, she announces that It
Will have an entertainment, and pro-
ceeds to make the 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 walking
across the floor with a hurry-up air,
introducing persons unfortunately,
feeling that upon her depends the sue
cess OF the evening.
II the domineering girl goes to
chatting dish supper she IL continually
suggesting that the rareblt needs more
cayenne or that they had better put
the cap over the alchohol burner. She
passes things about before the hostess
is ready and tells Charlie Adams to
crack some nuts for Pearl Smith. be-
cause 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 other people have
ideas OF their own and that their sug-
gestions may be as good as or better
than her own. She should not forget
that the sound OF her voice and the
continual commands she is putting
forth become tiresome. II she wants
to be popular, a girl must not be dom
ineering; let others have some say-so
in the social game.