p. 574 | A Slangy Girl

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 20, 1883

A Slangy Girl.

UNDER the present order of things, should the novelist go into the highways and resorts of the world to study reality, he will find many a daughter of the gods, divinely tall, and the most divinely fair, who, when her lips are opened, will dispel the charm of her presence and bring to mind the old fairy tale of the damsel from whose lips dropped toads and snakes at every word; who acknowledges no law of etiquette but her own whim; whose standard of regard to others is her own convenience; whose greatest virtue is indifference, and whose best charm is absence. It is true that at summer resorts there are charming and lovely girls, but their refined presence is completely overshadowed by the pushing, noisy vulgarity of the roystering girl of the period, the girl whose family is often excellent, whose advantage socially and educationally have been all that position and wealth could command, yet who remains to the end vulgar, selfish, and obtrusive.—Chicago Times.