THE AMERICAN GIRL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2170, 5 June 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE AMERICAN GIRL.

STYT,isn to the backbone. Independent us independent can be, but very pure. Is devoted to pleasure, dress, upending money, shows her moral nature nude — ju»t as it is, so as to deoeivo nobody. Flirts all winter with this or that one, and biamisses him iv the spring, when she instantly catches another. Goes out alone. Travels alone. When the fancy strikes her she travels with a genleman friend, or walks anywhere with him; puts boundless confidence in him; conjugal intimacy seems to exist between them. She lets him tell what he feels — talks of love from morning to night, but she never prive9 him permission to kiss so much as her hand. Hn may say anything — he ahull do nothing. Shu is restless; she gives heart and noul to amusement bofore she marries. After marriage she is a mother annually; is alone all day; hears all night nothing except discussions about patent machinery, unexplfl^ive petroleum, and chemical manure. She then will lot her daughters enjoy the liberty she used without grave abuse. As nothing serious happened to her, why should Fanny, Mary and Jennio bo less strong and adruit than their mother? She originates French fashions. Parisian women detest her. Provincal women despise her. Men of all countries adore her' but will not marry her, unless she had tin immense fortune. Her hair is vermilion, paler than golden hair; her black eyes are bold and frank; she has a patent shape which 'tin forbidden to counterfeit; spreads herself in a carriage as if she were in a hammock — the natural anb thoughtless posture of her passion for luxurious ease. When she walks she moves briskly, and throws every glauoo right and left; gives many of her thoughts to herself, and few of them of to anybody else. She is a wild plant put in a hothouse.