Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1905 — THE “HE SAID” GIRL. [ARTICLE]

THE “HE SAID” GIRL.

Did you ever notice a group of little girls between tbe ages of 14 and 18 chattering away in a corner? The next time you sit near such a group listen and hAar if about every tenth word is about what “he said.” If it is, you have found some more of tbe “he said” f’irls, and they are not the nicest ittle girls in the world. The “he said” girls- are likely to loiter downtown after school too late to help their mothers with tbe afternoon work. They are likely to wear a little better clothes than their fathers can afford, so that the neighbors wonder what their mothers can be thinking about. The “he said” girls also too often think more of the boys than of their books, and frequently fail to ?;et through school. TThey are in or a good time, and have nothing in their heads but hairpins and two-steps. Sometimes nature takes a girl out of the “he said” family and makes a fine women of her, but generally she gets to going out to parties and is developed before

her time, and either marries and fades at 20 or hangs on after all the other girls are married off, and takes generation after generation of young boys to raise by hand, and becomes known as “grandma” in the crowd. There is nothing so sweet as a simple, frank, open-hearted girl. But the boy-struck girl is an abomination. The wholes matter rests with the girl’s mother. She can either bring up one of tbe “he said’’ girls or she can have a daughter to be proud of.—Ex.