GIRLS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7057, 19 February 1910, Page 6

GIRLS

THE DOMESTIC'TYPE. (. , She is, although I say.it. easier and. more comfortable to make love to than any of her sisters. And this is the reai. son, d J y'see (says Cosmo Hamilton). Thej Domestic Type is totally unaffected. She.; is a brusque and busy littlo bee. gather-* ing honey all the time. You may know, her, in whatever class of life she maybe,by her waistline, which is normal. Andi by her hair, which curls naturally, or. doesn't curl, and is natural. She is invariably neat about herself, and; unlike her sisters who suffer from that homd disease called temperament, does nW leave "behind her patterns of hair-pins. Neither does she swear. Mostly she looks nice, though she is seldom pretty. She cam wear an old pair of driving-gloves, six sizes too large, without apologies. /In fact, she never apologises._ From early mom till-dewy eve she is on the go. She has an absolute penchant for corners. In her treatment of servants; male and female, she is not unlike a good sheep-dog in her methods; I mean that ishe rounds 'em up, d'y'see, and barks cheerfully at their heels, and knows exactly when to stop. She i 6 out of bed first and into it last. , And., I am given to believe, it is she who turns out the lights, and that's something. ! She is always on the tidy, always on the lcok-out for the button, the little lost button, the übiquitous buttou about which whole histories might be written, but not printed. Her father and too-, thers go forth into tho. world buttonful and without holes. If she has not got brothers, she adopts the -people that stop in her father's . plantation, and_ without a word of apology or explanation, and without fishing for praise or compliments, she will invade week-end portmanteaux, fish out all those things übon which buttons should jrrow, and look them over with an earnest eye an<l a thimble mounted on the right finger. Domesticity is not merely a hobby-., of hers, it is a characteristic, d'y'see, a chronic thing, a- sort of desire. I Hove that she is even, domestic when-.Jin her sleep. Lonjr before she i& a' wife she is a housewife. She is the can't do without, as lonp as there are socks with holes, and shirts that wint buttons. ', i