WHAT GIRLS THINK.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4035, 3 December 1881, Page 4

WHAT GIRLS THINK.

At seventeen the girl thinks often, of lore, delights in lore songs, fills Moore's poems with .marks, ;thinks Byron's face beautiful, eats little in company.., At eighteen she still thinks' a l;great; deal of lore; would- care nothing for poverty provided she had a lover who adored her; indeed, would rather be poor than rich, werg she united to the ideal whom she had not yet met. Still reads a great deal of poetry and novels which deal largely with lore 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 her for steadier: authors than her old favorites, dances every dance in the ball, and then is not .quite 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 darliDg.' Nevertheless she more uniformly. All her. shyness is gone, and she enjoys her food whether people are looking at her or;not. At twenty-one here belief in old men is strong; she has lost prejudice in favor of poverty and cottages, yet she would not insist upon money were : her ideal to present himself. At 22, she thinks her youngest sister rather forward; in; her manners, particularly with young men.