FOOLISH YOUNG WOMEN what men really think of the girls of hie period tho sad thing about it is observes a writer in the new york mail and express that the girl of tho period is making a fool of herself every thing carried to its extreme becomes its contrary says hegel and the girls beginning with the masculine costume goes 10 please men more and more by adopting their slang and even freedom of manner the girl does not see that although men are amused by it they are not made more respectful and courteous thereby she only sees she is a favorite with men and that she always has partners and escorts and is invited everywhere men are at their ease with her but ye gods and little fishes there is a mighty difference between the girl ono loafs and smokes with and the girl one prefers for a wife or a mother the very fashion that in moderation was charming in excess is disagreeable the slangy lolling sprawling men hunters and some girls of the period are little more than that have spoiled the lib erty which it was delightful to see women accepting in moderation there is a liberty that makes us free and a liberty that makes vs slaves and the girls who take liberties with modesty of speech and manner and who cross well over the border into masculine territory are not more free but more slavish than before and the approbation of men which is the end in view is lost by the very means taken to gain it there is ono young woman in boston who has been a belle for two winters one day she remarked to the writer that now she was obliged to do the marketing that her mother bad always done it but at last ma kicked when the writer said to a friend of that young woman that she would not get married for several years unless she changed her manners ho was told that she received more attention than any girl in boston nevertheless that young woman has had two seasons and is still disengaged she is a type of the shortsightedness short sightedness of some of her sex she has men about her in plenty and she shall have music wherever she goes but men are better than they appear at bottom men love kindliness gentleness modesty purity in act and thought in women