Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 79, 20 December 1893 — The Manly Girl. [ARTICLE]

The Manly Girl.

The manlv girl is one of tbe tvpes of modern who he!p to bring discre«iit on the girls <>f to-day. and Iead Mrs. Lvnn Linb»n and other Eaeile wntesto drp i their j>et»s in gall when se tt:ng furth their attribute> She i«. says the Prinoess, an exaggefj ation of our uineteenth ceuturj j d imsels, and as suoh is hopelossly nnpleasing: the athletic u>aidi en, fond of every >port. is »s lovable as she is vigoroi(s. but let her beware lest she oteidoes her part, and stamps herself as disagreeably masculiue, in whieh case she may count sureiy on losing the respect, tho reverence, aud the chivalrous treatmeut whieh every rigbt-minded man gives to a true womun. Whea sbe makes Jier debnt in society, the childish roughness, insteud of disappearing, develops into an uglier forra. The slangy talk and pert replies to whieh she h-ts treated her brothers aro fairlv piquant to her partners. and as they smile and jest in return, she becomes raore and more manly, with the mistaken idea t'uat she is conveying a good impression. She begius to speak of men as her ‘‘chums,” aud votet them as “good fellows." A cigarette, first iudulged in pur* 1 v out of bravado, is followed by a second and third, till nausea beiug overcome she eommi-neea to indulge fairly regularly in the “weed;' so the iunocent, refined bloom of maideniiood is roughly brasbed auJ tiie manly girl finds herself uddress«J more cavalierly aud treated with greater indiifeience than the girl who has been true to ber s*-s. The pity of it is, that the manly . girl, in her short sightedncs8, j thinks she is attracting where, in trnth, she is repelliug. Lct no girl believe it that a man like» a womau who seeks to be his couuterpart, who copieshim with a stitfshirt, a tie, a jacket, and a waistcoat, retaining only the skirt as a means of identification. who crops her hair close, perchea a sailor hat at au angle on īt. screws up her eye, and inserts a single glass (not withoot a euntortion of the rest of her face), and, with a stick under her arm. swaggers (it is the only word po«sible here) down the roud. The caricature may amuse, but the Iaugb in truth is agaiust the girl, not with her. In eaeh bright young girl, full of lifo, vivacity, and freshness. a tbinking mua looks for the qnalities that will make a truo wife, a though 4 ful ' mother, and a beloved comj»anion; in the horsey young lady, 1 with ber cigarette and her slang, } her loud voice and strident 1augh, and her generwl unwomunliness, r he sees none of the attributcs I with whieh his ideal womau is clothed, and he turns away frum her to seek tbe one whose “price is far above rnbies,” for “she will do him good. not evil, all the days of her life.’’— Aueklnni j \Vetkly New*.