WHAT GIRLS THINK.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2696, 9 November 1881, Page 2

WHAT GIRLS THINK.

At seventeen the girl thinks often of love, delights in love songs,fills Moore’s poems with pencil marks, thinks Byron’s face beautiful, eats little in company. At eighteeen she still thinks a great deal of love ; would care nothing for poverty provided she had a lover who adored her ; indeed would rather be poor than rich, were she united to the ideal whom she had not yet met. Still reads a great deal of poetry and novels which deal largely with love and the death of the heroines ; passionately fond of children. At nineteen a little more critical; finds some of the poetry that pleased her a little weak ; looks about for steadier authors than her old favoiites, dances every dance in the ball, and then is not quite so particular as to the men who are introduced to her. At twenty she is not sure, whether, after all, it would not be better to be an old man’s darling. Nevertheless she flirts more uniformly. All her shyness is gone, and she enjoys her food whether people are looking at her or not. At twenty-one her belief in the old men is strong ; she has lost prejudice in favour of poverty and cottages, yet she would not insist upon money were her ideal to present himself. At twenty-two thinks her youngest sister rather forward in her manners, particularly with young men.