Pushing Girls.
Tnr, gushing girl is the nineteenth century production. She {jiggles from the time she opens her eyes in the morning: until she says amen at night and puts her fluffy little head on the pillow. She says "thanka awfully" for "I thank you." She thinks the grand lugubrious music of the "Stabat Mater" too sweet for anything. A kitten with its eyes as yet unopened, the Niagara Falls, and Mr Gladstone all are "just too charming and lovely for any earthly use." Her adjectives are all in the superlative. She will gush over a pumpkin, over her sister's new baby, over a doggerel rhyme, over everything she sees, everything &he hears, over everybody the knows. If she is here to-night she will say of me as she does of the weather — ac she did of her new bonnet— that I'm either "simply grand " or " simply horrid."
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 224, 15 October 1887, Page 2
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148Pushing Girls. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 224, 15 October 1887, Page 2
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