THE WELL-BRED GIRL.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 930, 27 December 1889, Page 11

THE WELL-BRED GIRL.

SOME’ OF THE MANY THINGS SHE 18 NOT IN THE HABIT OF DOING. Do you know many well-bred girls ? Oh, they can always be told. A well-bred girl thanks the man who gives her a seat in the street car, and does it in a quiet and not in an effusive way. She doesn’t turn around to look after gamblers or posiDg actors on the street, and she doesn’t think that her good looks are causing the men to stare at her. She doesn’t wear all her jewelry in the daytime, and she understands that diamond rings, earrings and bracelets were intended for the evening alone. She doesn’t go to supper after the theatre is over alone with a man. She does not declare that she never rides in street-cars. She does not accept a valuable present from any man unless she expects to marry him. She doesn’t talk loud in public places. She doesn’t shove or push to get the best seat, and she doesn’t wonder why in the world people carry children in the cars and why they permit them to cry. She does not speak of her mother in a sarcastic way, and she shows her the loving deference that is her due. She doesn’t want to be a man, and she doesn’t try to imitate him by wearing stiff hats, smoking cigarettes and using an occasional big, big D. She doesn’t say she hates women, and she has some good, true friends among them. She doesn’t wear boots without their buttons, or a frock that needs mending. She doesn’t scorn the use of the needle, and expects some day to make clothes for very little people, who will be very dear to her. —N.Y. Sun.