THE SARCASTIC YOUNG WOMAN.
Insufferable though the giggling, gushing girl may be, she is angelic when compared with her sarcastic sister. The sarcastic girl is, in some instances, the product of hasty or ill advised compliments paid her by some thoughtless admirer on her making some rude remark concerning an acquaintance or companion. She has not th 9 ability to distinguish between impudence and satire, and it is an easy task to convince her that ill-bred, rudeness of speech is the perfection of irony, and that to say spiteful and unpleasant things to everybody she meets is sure to win her the reputation of being sarcastic. She eagerly cultivates her fancied talent, not allowing an opportunity to exercise it to pass unimprover), and she generally succeeds in making herself heartily disliked by those who are unfortunate enough to be numbered among her acquaintances. Young men who are generally sensitive to. ridicule, avoid her systematically. She attributes this to the wholesome fear in which she is held. The family think her brilliant when everyone else pronounces her insulting. Her sarcasm generally degenerates into insolence, and she is regarded as a pest. Without friends she becomes lonely -and dissatisfied, but it is still far from guessing the (rue reason of her forlorn state, for her petty vice has become a second nature, and she cannot estimate its disagreeable effect upon others.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4497, 4 June 1883, Page 2
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229THE SARCASTIC YOUNG WOMAN. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4497, 4 June 1883, Page 2
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