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THE FAULTS OF THE GIRL
OF THE PERIOD
Hit l,aok in What Should Make Her
Well Orought-up. Her Failings and
Yi-t'u('B.
Copyrighted 1004 by Christine Terhune
Herrick.
Letter No. 3. of a series of 20.
There are few creatures iu the
world more charming than a really
nice girl.
One such girl comes to my mind as
I write. She has led what may call
a sheltered lile. Her family posess
means and she has had all the advan
tages any girl could desire. She
studied in one of the best of Now
England’s high sohools and there
acqu-.red freedom from snobbishness
a character trait that is imparted to
the right typo of girl by the assooia-f
tion with all sorts and conditions of
students. When she left the high
aohool she was teken abroad after
lavii g traveled extensively, was
given a year in an English and
Frenoh school near Paris. From
this she came home to the small
town in whioh she was resied and
went happily to work to live. She
has taken one or two small classes
in languges, because, as she sensibly
says, that is the work by which she
would live if she had to support her
and she does not wish to let her
accomplishments become rusty But
she is also the daughter of the house
in the old fashioned meaning of the
phase, taking hor share in the house
-keeping, home making, helping her
mother wneu it is ncessary, being
a companion to her father and a
friend to her younger brothers and
sisters. The gentleness of manner
which makes her charming to
strangers may be due partly to
nature and traning, but a portion of
it is surely the result of effort on
her own part. She has found
herself.
I know another girl of the same
type, although of a different environ
ment. ' The second is a Middle
States girl and comes of a parentage
in very moderate circumstances.
Always the girl knew when she
left school she would have to earn
her own living. By tde tim* she is
eighteen she had mastered stenog
raphy and type-writing and bad ob
tained a position.' All day she is
in her office, working hard, But
’when she leaves the office, she
thows it aside entirely. One who
met her would never suspect that
she, too, did not lead the sheltered
life. Gentle, considerate, deferen
tial to her seniors, not vehement in
pressing her own opinion upon
others. She is thoughtful about
doing the littlekindness most leave
undone or despise.
Here are two specimens of what
1 call a really nice girl. There
are a good many them in the world,
for which we may thank Heaven ami
judicious mothers. But, alas! there
are others of another type.
I know several latter sort, but one
will serve as an example. She is a
college gradurate and a splendo 1
looking young woman. She has
her good points and t'.my are many.
Those who know these and. love
her because of them deprecate, the
-flaws which are so much more oon-
spioious than the virtues that uhe
latter sink almost out of sight.
This girl is self assertive. She lias
no' doubt that she knows all there is
to know. Question any statement
made by her and no matter how
gently you advance your own judg
ment you are su-umarilly snubbed.
There is no admission that you
may have a grain of right on your
side. Has not the girl been to
colledge? Is she not young? Does
she not keep up with the times? Go
to, ye baok numbers! The girl of
the period has spokon and the point
is settled! „
As matter of course, the two girls
of whom 1 spoke first have as good
a right as the third to olaim to be
girls ol the period. That is, they
would havo if there were as many
of thorn as there are ot her. This
sounds involved, but but I fauoy
the meaning is tolerably oiear. The
girls who have an undue sense of
their own importance, who are
lacking in difference to their elders,
in unselfish thoughtfulness for those
about them and m a modest esteem
of importance, are in the majority,
don’t like to own it, but I am
afraid it is truth. If it is, what is
the mattor? There will be found a
large number of oonsertaTves who
will lay it all, or nearly all, to
athletics. They will deolare that
the outdoor sports for whioh girls
bave become so keen during the
past few years are responsible.for a
loss of what the old writers would
have called femimncidelioaoy.
Those of us . who think that a
healthy body and mmd and <soul
should go together are not inclined
to hold this view! We know too
many girls who play basket ball and
row boats and ride wheels and take
part in traok and Bold meets and are
yet gentlewomen to yeld oredence to
any suoh sweeping condemnations
of athletic pursuits* And yet, what
is tho matter?
It is a hard thing for one woman
to eritioise other women and still
harder and in poorer taste for one
mother to pick flaws in other moth
ers. But are not the mothers in a
measure responsible for somj of the
girls? Have thev not made a mis
take some where m the early train
ing of their daughters? It cannot
•be altogether the sins of the latter,
either herdditary or aoquired. If
the mothers had held the right
relationship with the girls from the
time the little creatures left the
nursery, along through sohool life
and out into society, would not the
young woman of the present day be
rather a different produot?
Prehaps it may sound hopelessly
old fogey is b to press the value of
domestic duties m making.the girl
more womanly. But is it not the
case? If a girl is taught from the
first that certain home cares fall to
her lot as a matter ot oourse. will she
not adapt herself to home-making
work? Tho girl who intends to go
out and seek a career will doubtless
laugh this idea to scorn, but if she
does, it is becausc'she Was started
wrong: From her childish years
siie .-ri .uld’have been called upon to
d> her share in taking care of the
home and making it atraotive.
While she is still very young she
o in be instructed in the mysteries
of f mall duties and as.'she ■ grows
older she can look; after her own
room and keep the living rooms
atractive. Then there comes the
time that nearly every girl finds
interesting, when she is allowed to
do a little booking. ' Now that the
re sible plan has been introduced of
giving cooking lessons in public
ohp ’ Is thereds a chance for children
to learn something of oookery out
side of their own homos.' The
effect is often very noticeable.
Tho child goes home eager to
attempt some of tho new dishes
she has made under the teaoher’s
supervision. The mother is guilty
of a grave blunder who does not
encourage lids son of thing iu the
home. What if it does for a while
make more |i .ague than pro lit?
Bother is not what the. mother
should be trying to escape. Her
eff ort should be to induce her dau
ghter to oare for tho purely womanly
persuits of making the homo and all
therein is of comfort aud pleasure.
It is an excellent plan to give the
girl a sense of responsibility when
there is entertaining to jbo done.
This does not mean that she is to
receivo her guests alone while her
mother and lather retire to the
background. Quite the omtrary.
Wheu older guests are present tho
girl must consider it inoumbent
upon her to help make things pleas*
ant for them. She need hot thrust
herself forwards, but she must lot
them see that she appreoiates the
duties of her position as joipt hostess.
When her own friends pie invited
to the house it should notfaean that
the parents are banished. In the
habit of Yoing America of putting
“the old people” to one side wheu
girls and boys are met sooially may
be found the cause of many of the
defects we lament in tho girl of the
period.
Foraftorall, the young girl, no
matter how charming she may be,
is an untried oreaturp. She is full
of life and shows these in an over
flow of animal spirits that manifests
itself in strange fashions. The
youthful spirits are all well enough
in their way and we would not have
her without them. But they must
be direoted and oheokod when they
threaten to carry her too far.
The avrago young girl is too Belf
absorbed to grasp the idea that there
are other points ol view besides her
own. She knows what her impulses
onoline her to do and she does not
stop to consider, liow her aotions
impress those about her. If she
dwelt too much upon this consider
ation it might have n tendenoy to
make her sell oonsious, but a little
thought of her in relation with oth
ers is an admirable thing. When
she has been taught from early
ohrldhood to be unselfish and seek
the comfort of others rather than
her own enjoyment, pure and simple,
she is pretty sure to ho. womanly
and gentle.
Yet this does not mean that she
may not be a broezy, out-doors little
some body- In fact, we would not
like her if she were not rather “up
and coming.” The American gjrl
is not prone to be lacking iu “go.”
and sparkle. Her recent development
along athletic lines has improved
her physically and mentally as well.
If to her splendid bodily health
and her eager mind she adds the
gentleness and thoughtfulness lor
others which make her lovable,
there will be no one to cast even the
shadow of criticism on the girl of
the period.
THE. CLOCK.
The courthouse olook tells the
hours by day and by night, and wo
all know when to go in and when to
ootne out, when to eat when to retire
and when to rise. Here is something
about it:
It strikes every half hour.
The bell weighs 500 pounds.
It can be heard about two miles.
It run 0 days with one windsng.
The pendulum rod is eight feet
16ng.
The pendulum bail weighs 00
pounds.
It is surposed to last 50 to 100
years.
Tho clock runs eight days with
one winding.
The shipping weight of tho entire
olook was 3,800 pounds.
It runs Ijy weights, and tho
weights are of Dooly oounty rook.
The largest wheel in it 20 inches
aerpss. and about 40 wheels iu
ail.
The stroke of,the pendulum is
one and a half seconds apart, or 40
strokes a minute.
The bell is fifteen feet from the
works of the olook, and is at the
windows below.
The faces are .six feet across. It
has four faces, and tells tho hour on
all sides of the steeple.
The minute baud is three foot
long, tLe hour hand two feat.
The running weight weighs 200
pounds, and winds 10 off 19 feet of
a cord whioh is 3b feet long.
The striking weight 700 popnds,
and pulls to a cord 134 feet long.
The lull of this weight iB 43 feet, f
The ordinary deserves a note of
thanks from the people at large for
his care and skill in the selection of
such an elegant olook for the cost of
less than $1,000.
It looks like tho farmers will be
late at starting their oroffli again.
If you have not pruued your trees
you betler go at it once, it will soon
be too late in the season.
The out ory against Hearst from:
the sooond story windows of polities
iu Georgio indicates that Ilearst is
some where near the Toad. 1
A man signing his name E. B.
Walker has wrote another letter
to the Cordole Sentinel in favor of a
dispenory for Dooly oounty. We
would like to have a photograph of
the said Walker.
Aooording to Sam Small, if rep
orts are true, itoh that is provoking
excitement throughout the broad
land is not small pox, but a Philipino
itioh that so much resembles small
pox that lots of the dootors can not
tell tho difference.
Tho race for governor m 1008
promioes to have three great editor
John Temple Graves, Atlanta Nows,'
Clark Ilbwoll, Constitution, and
J H Estill, Savannah Morning News
They will make type and ink fly
when they got started.
The fruit growejs say peaches are
safe so far.
The depot at Pineviow, on the
Hawkinsville & Florida Southern
road, was burned Tuesday night of
last weak.
! Sunday was suoh a rainy day that
j the young people could not do tho
I love making that is so common on
| that day of the week.
Japan and Russia arc head over
heels in war with each othe, but
;most of the fighting ro far his been
'on water. Russia sterna to be the
| heavy looser se far.,
. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Regular meeting of council, Mch.
7,1904. .
Present, Mayor Lewis, Aldermen
Forbes, Walton and Bennett.
On motion oath of office as aider-
man to All the unexpired term of
IIA Youmans was duly administered
to John B McDonald, who was duly
elected to fill said unexpired term.
On motion mayor appointed B F
Forbes and C I Bennett a committee
to investigate deffi'oiertey in electric
.light near residence of T A Adkins,
Request of D B Thompson for
fire limits around his brick ware
house block was referred to John B
McDonald as committee to investi-
gate.
On motion the rollowing oxemp
tions from the payment of street tax
fer year of 1904 was made: Mayor
aud city council, marshal and po
licemen, board of education, fire de[
partment, board of health, city at
torney.
Minutes read and approved.
Council then adjourned,
K R LEWIS,‘Mayor.
J A WALDEN, Clerk.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
/The doad body of Mr Jaok Hardy
was found dead on tho railroad traok
Sunday morning near the county
line between Plnia and Soville. Tho
coroner held an inquest and found
that Mr Hardy,s death was caused
Tpy lightning.
He left his father’s home late
Saturday evening to g<$ to his- own
ho mo about two miles away. That
was the last time he was seen alive.
A thunder storm oame up, and tho
poor fellow was strnok while walk
ing down the track. His hat aud
shoes were torn up, a thing that
lightning never fails to do when it.
kills a man. A burnt streak was on
his body and ran down one log.
He fell between the traoks and
two trains passed over his body du
ring the night. He was young man
with a wife and two ohildren, and
was. woW thught of in his coimpunity.
IN MEMGRIAM.
On last Friday night at 8 o’olook
God sent his death angel to the home
of Mr. and Mrs. E1 Pollock and
took away their little Nellie. - She
was one of tho brightest and most
intelligent babies 1 ever saw and
seemed to enjoy perfeot health until
a few days before her death. Her
sufferings were great. Brain fever
was tho trouble. Everything that
loving hands and kind physioians
could do was done, but God in Ilia
wisdom knows best.
She only budded here to bloom in
heaven. She will be missed, as she
was tho pet aud pride of home and
many wno knew her. She was so
pretty; but how sweet she must bo
now, since she has been transformed
int an angel and seen God, the Fa
ther, and Jesus and all the heavenly
host, and how sweet ncr little voice
must be singing God’s praise with
her.dear little sister who has jsue-
ceedod her to 'the glory world
’Tis so hard to give her up, but
just let us look to Him for grace to
bear us up in this as in any other sad
trial. Weep not, dear parents for
this sweet ohild; she will stand with
ontstre’tched arms to welceme you
when your time comes.
Her little friend,
. ALICE JACKSON.