THE BABY GIBSON GIRL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 310, 24 September 1908, Page 3

THE BABY GIBSON GIRL.

Tlie lutlc American £irl is not hampered, by niartiiTiilaticii, says a writer,m an English papery .nor. noes she dream-,or - mcaitato greatlv hhc is a woman of affairs from her cradle,'-nnd her hands are always full. Her brain is the most.rapid.thiig as yot created. Electricity, could .not rival hor mental quickness- > I. was staving at a house once where a.yorins person.of.fivoi angelic of face, small, <<xquisite, -aiid. immaculately• dressed, ruled the entire household. Tho first-mornras or my .stay. I .was awakened by a. series of tho most, blood-curdling screams I ever heard.. I' sal -up in'. mJObed,' ; fritH tho tion. streaming down. me.' What could have happened? Oii.o of the servants put her head jirat my-softlv-oponed door, and said, "Don't he Bearod,-:. That's '.just Mis' Dominga woke lip " , Mis' - Dominga; rqpoated:#at ; performance lof .'my-.'stay in ' Iter':.mother's hous" - When I.asked why;.she looked at me obliqisi'ly lioin the corners of her lmxl;-- pws; and. s.ii'l. ir: all angel volte, "Oil, 1 jus like .'om to' kn<i«. riiv.riiht-:there."-'No..hah.v talkhen; I -. :Sti'<'*: Wi'iit. ,but, a deal with T:er mother, .U)'!..|i.ii'Mps, ■> .She .is very, .fond of music famous, Spanish' pianist was jn; iiio'l her took, uor one afternoon- to a liiiuae w'kth thn celebrity- played; 'diviriely'.jiiiir- 'niagieally';''' so 'thai - her hearers' wereijr ajii' w'oriiler ''All.liiit' Doniinga; She. stOod^by 5 the' piano rcgrirdjiig 'the performance with a critical toleration. When it ,'W'as':over ; waited,. till ; tb6 storih.' of plai^!te^<lfed % aivd'y:-»ttid'';tbWt l ehiarked coollyV can-'dq .all;.that l with' her'feet." - and'- "'iilkei!' nu-iiy. 1 ; TDominga.' said I ono morning, confidentially,' -'going-' to-do when yon • grow upS'V'-.-Slje';thought' for-'a imomeiit',' aiid' then}- with lief-eyes' ftill :of melancholy,- ?'] caynt:.;'i;f:ike : iip ' my mind,she; lamented;' "whethi'i I'll mari'v. Busfcei Browu or a Dukii- At'ihvo years-old! tT-Ki''.American 1 : is'; the Seventh:-Won-dei ,-of the World.Alort. -beautiful, >■ abe-rtl-litcl.y .self-reliant, arid confident; ■ dressed to. [ii-rfeetibii, certajn " : of i all ' thinrs, and ' niost ef all herself; there is nothing to equal her. . -Slie : ihas (only oho : ;flrawba(!k~-sha ■sesMss; •:'and-,.l.ccause- .does' not • love -little children, and . merely "cares" for her husband; corisfa'juetit'ly; though there are happy-'.'American' homes, thero are ' seldom happy .'families. ' ; Thero :is a something missing frbin the menage— Love.. The American man is absorbed.. iii making. millions, the' America 4 woman in niakiiy a; social posi-. tio'ii; hot" as-a'role'in Aitie'rica, but elsewhere'; ami,the-little children . are chested of their • due; the • American j'dea '-is, to.vgiye. them, where they ' corns, everything they .'can possibly "desire,'' : rio 'matter■. how' bad it' inay be for' thoirii. That is bnd reason'why the American-, girl crowns herself so deliberately. t .. She is accustomed .from -her,.infancy to "demand everything—and get it.