GIRLS WHO GUSH-UGH!!

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 29, 27 February 1909, Page 4

GIRLS WHO GUSH-UGH!!

Yoit know the girl who "giislies," who is ready to agree with you in everything, who praises when you praise and condemns when you condemn—she is, alas! a too common type, but an irritating one; she gets on one's nerves; so unoriginal, 3 « Jacking i.i individuality is she (says a writer in Pearson.-, Weekly). Entering a house for the first time, this is the sort of girl who comments on the pictures. How beautiful they are, she never caw anything like them; on the bric-a-brac—how choice it is; on the afternoon tea-set—such handsome and miiima china, and so on. She meets a lady friend who is wearing a new costume, and soon she gets under way—if only she had garments of the same kind, how happy she would be. What charming taistc her friend has in dressing. She doesn't know the right things to buy, and so forth, ad infinitum almost. (She likes the people you like; she hates the people you are not over-par-tial to; she is with you in everything, never against you, and that is very tiresome. IS SHE SINCERE? Is .she sincere or is she not? My opiuion is that she is peculiarly insinccri—no one can agree with you in everything and be sincere; there must be a dash of the hypocrite in the person who always sees eye to eye with you. Young men dimply cannot endure this sort of girl; she makes them feel mad, with her everlasting. "Oh, Mr. Jones, how clover von aic."'"Whut a brick you are, Mr. Brown.'' "Oh, Mr. Robinson how do you think of all the clever things vou say?" I'd rather have a young woman t give me rank impertinence on occasion thai agree with me in every way. There h something refreshing about the om ■■ type, there is nothing refreshing abou I the other.

I know one young lady, about tweiit years of age—"she is a fearful "gusher and I 'have kid a. lew nasty experience ■with \uiv. 'Unfortunately, she. know I Unit I writ* for tlie Press, and on o< casion she comes across an urtielc wit my name attacked. Then lam in for i aiid am obliged to sit and listen to Hi most ridiculous and fulsome praise. _ .She once? saw a cheque I had receive for a couple of magazine articles—it wa for fire guineas, and in a rash momen 1 toldi her it represented two articles From that day to this she will not l>c licve that I do not get cheques of th same sort hv every post, ami, more thai that, she has asked me'how long tin articles took me to write. I said abou an hour each, anil what did she do bu calculate my working day out at som CI 10s per hour. She saddled mm 'with a fearsome in come and huge talk balance, and, I' put an end to it, I have sometime thought of showing her a letter fron my banker indignantly refusing to alloi m'c to overdraw my aueount any fin i ther. I have never done so, howevci so whenever I encounter her she gushe . over my wealth. This is just the sort of girl who kisse I each girlfriend as she meets her. I , Hie street, at a triend's - home, on th : station platform, a kiss slie must givi on everv possible, and impossible, occa ! sion. That is not the sort of kiss that gratifies; indeed, after a time, it passes i unnoticed, for friends soon learn that it has- no meaning, um) is the merest ,- habit.

Such a girl, too, is always most eager to make new friends. Introduce her to a ladv, then afterwards, when you meet her, you are compelled to listen to tremendous laudation—she never was introduced to such a delightful person; how good it was of you to bring them together: how is it Unit you know all the nice people, she will ask, and so on. l'm-e insincerity, I call .it. And the same refers to any gentleman you introduce her to—he is always the most mannerly, polite person she has ever met. No wonder one gets sick and tired of such a person as the gushing young ladv. '•NOT WASTED IX SOCIETY. .The girl who gushes, in short, is just one of those' persons we could well dispense with—she certainly would not be [ missed; she fills no useful niche in our social life, except ill tlrol she stands as a. warning to other women, and prevents them from following her pernicious course. Is there any young liidy reader who indulges in this habit now and then? If so, at all costs give it up—nothing is so sickening in a young woman; it tells of shallowness, of insincerity, and —yes. 1 will say it—of rank untruthfuiaos's.

The luifm-tunnto thing is tlml the gn-liing girl imasinc- her gush to lie real taetinlneM.'aiu! a .-.oinotliiiifr which is bound to please. It may please sonic, 1)111, they ought to lie examined by export- iii lunacy, fur tliosi* wlio are pleased with "gush" have something wrong with them.