GIRLS WHO GUSH-UGH!

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 656, 4 March 1909, Page 3

GIRLS WHO GUSH-UGH!

_ You know the girl who "gushes," who is ready 'to agree with yuu in everything, who praises when you praise and condemns when you condemn—she is, alao! a too common type, but an irritating one; she gets on one's nerves; so unoriginal, so lacking in individuality is she (says a writer in Pearson's Weekly). Entering a house for the first time, this is the sort of girl who comments on the pictures. How beautiful they are, she never .saw anything like them; on the bric-a-brac—how choice it is; ori the afternoon tea-set—such handsome and unique china, and so on. She meets a lady friend who is wearing a new costume, and soon she gets under way—if only she had garments of the same kind, how happy she would be, What charming taste her friend has in dressing. She doesn't know the right things to buy, and so forth, ad infinitum almost.

She likes the people you like; she hates the people you are not over-par-tial to; she is with you in everything, never against you, and that is very tiresome.

IS SHE §LN T CERE? i Is she sincere or is she not? My opinion is that she is peculiarly insincere—no one «an agree with you in everything and b? sincere; there must be a dash of the hypocrite in the person who always sees eye to eye with you, ■Young men simply cannot endure this sort of girl; she makes them feel mad, with her everlasting, "Oh, Mr. Jones, how clever you are," "What a brick you are, Mi;, Brown," "Oh, Mr. Robinson, how do you think of all the clever things you say?"

I'd rather have a young give me .rank impertinence on occasion than agree with me in every way, There is something refreshing about the one type, there is nothing refreshin'' about the other.

I how one young lady, about twenty years of age—she is a fearful "gusher," and I have had a few nasty experiences with her. Unfortunately, she knows that I write i'or the Press, and on occasion she comes across an article with ray name attached. Then lam in for it, and am obliged to sit and listen to the most ridiculous and fulsome praise. She once saw a cheque I had received for a couple of magazine articles—it was for five guineas, and in a rash moment 1 told' her it represented two articles. From that day to this she will not believe that I do not get cheques of the sahie sort by every post, £\nd, more than that, she has asked me* how long the article® took me to write. I said about an hour each, and what did she do but calculate my working day out at some £2 10s per hour. She saddled me with a fearsome income and huge hank balance, and, to put an end to it, I have sometimes thought of showing her a letter from my banker indignantly refusing to allow me to overdraw my account aay further. I have never done so, however, so whenever I encounter her she gushes over my wealth,

This is just the sort of girl who kisses each girl friend as she meets her. In the street, at a friend's home, on the station platform, a kiss she must give oil every possible, and impossible, occasion, That is not the sort -of kiss that gratifies; indeed, after a time, it passes unnoticed, for friends soon learn that it has, no meaning, and is the merest habit.

Such a girl, too, is always most eager to make now friends. Introduce her to a lady, then afterwards, when, you meet her, you are compelled to listen to tremendous laudation—she never was introduced to such a delightful person; how good it was of you to bring them together; how is l it that you know all the nice people, she w,ill ask, and so on. . Pure insincerity, I call it. And the same refers to any gentleman you introduce her to—he is always the most man-, nerly, polite perso-a she has ever met. No wonder one gets sick and tired of such ut person as the gushing young lady. NOT WANTED IN SOCIETY.

■The girl who gushes, in short, is just one of those persons wa could well dispense with—she certainly would not be missed; she fills no useful niche in our social life, except in that she stands us a warning to other women, and prevents them from following her pernicious course.

Is there any. young lady reader who indulges in this habit now and then? If' so, at all costs give it up—nothing is so sickening in a young woman; it tells of shallowness, of insincerity, and —yes, I will say it—of rank untruthfulness.

•The unfortunate thing is that t/lie gushing girl imagines her gush to be real tact-fulness, and a something which is bound to please. It may please some, but they ought to be examined by experts in lunacy, for those who are pleased with "gush" have something wrong with them.