THE MANLY GIRL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9367, 25 November 1893, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE MANLY GIRL.

The manly girl is one of the types of modern maids who help to bring discredit on tho girls of to-day, and lead Mrs. Lynn Linton and other facile writers to dip their pens in call when setting forth their attributes. She is, says the Princess, an exaggeration of our nineteenth century damsels, and as such is hopelessly tin pleasing ; the athletic maiden, fond of every sport, is as lovable as she is vigorous, bub let her beware lesb she overdoes her part, and stamps herself as disagreeably masculine, in which case she may count surely on losing the respect, the reverence, and the chivalrous treatment which every right-minded man gives to a true woman. When she makes her delnti in society, the childish roughness, instead of disappearing, develops into an uglier form. The slangy talk and perb replies to which she has treated her brothers are fairly piquant to her partners, and as they smile and jest in return, she becomes more and more manly, with tho mistaken idea that she is conveying a good impression. She begins bo speak of men as her " chums," and votes them very " good fellows." A cigarette, first indulged in purely out of bravado, is followed by a second and third, till nausea being overcome she commences to indulge fairly regularly in the " weed ;" so the innocent, refined bloom of maidenhood is roughly brushed, and the manly girl finds herself addressed more cavalierly and treated with greater indifference than the girl who lias been true to hor sex. The pity of it is, that the manly girl, in her short-sightedness, thinks she is attracting where, in truth, she is repelling. Let no girl believe ib that a man likes a woman who seeks to be his counterpart, who copies him with a stiff shirt, a tie, a jacket, and a waistcoat, retaining only the slurb as a means of identification, who crops her hair close, perches a sailor hat ab an angle on ib, screws up her eye, and inserts a single glass (not without a contortion of the rest of her

face), and; with a stick under her arm, swaggers (it is the only word possible hero) down the road. The caricature may amuse, bub the laugh in truth is against the girl, not with her. In each bright young girl, full of life, vivacity, and freshness, a thinking man looks for the qualities that will make a true wife, a thoughtful mother, and a beloved companion ; in the horsey young lady, with her cigarette and her slang, her loud voice and strident laugh, and her general unwomanliness, ho sees none of the attributes with which his ideal woman is clothed, and he turns away from her to seek the one whose " price is far above rubies," for "she will do him good, nob evil, all the days of her life."

"The Woman Ab Homo" (writes our London correspondent) is the name of a now magazine owned and edited by Miss Annie C. Swan. lb opens brightly, and promises by its start to be both useful and entertaining. The Princess of Wales opens the subject matter, and is photographed down her span of years in stages. There is a delightful interview with Patbi and numerous illustrations of herself—in stages also— her presents, and of her Castle home in Wales. The price of tho magazine is 6d. All topics connected with women are ably dealt with.

Nervous passenger : " Why are you steaming along at such a fearful rate through this fo£ '!" Ocean captain (reassuringly): "Fogs are very dangerous, madam; and am always in a hurry bo get out of them." Both Hindoo and Mussulman women wear glass bangles, and in the north-west provinces they are regarded as sacred objects. If a glass bangle bo accidentally broken, its pieces must be gathered together and kissed throe times.