Show TUB THE A AMERICAN GIRL GIla HJ Nor North Hi American ne I Review w There i is iti that thal i. i Is Id Interesting Interesting- aside from Crom her physical appearance in the tho American Amen Ameri can girl of toda today between the tho ages o of I fifteen and twenty two Sho She has tailed failed to keep keel pace In any respect with the I American bo boy whose advancement ad we WC recently remarked with Indeed It If the blunt truth bo spoken en she I Is an Intolerable bore con self i s Ignorant nt and concerned chiefly chief chief- r ly 1 with matrimonial aspirations To the Englishman her pertness which ho he Imagines to be chic Is Js fascinating fas fas- fas and indicative of mental menial brightness hut but this Ibis effect Is attributed largely largel to hl his own dullness It II Is the clever Jc muna management ement of oC the tho limited number of or phrases sUl supplemented b by copious use of what he considers dc- dc slang not substance or even l measurable Information that appeals to his jaded mentality In point of or intelligence she Is we Wr believe the equal If IC not the superior of ur 1 her English cousin but bUl In the choie choice o of or language sh she Is IN sadly inferior The rIse I 1 u use o of lang dang by boys OM finds some excuse rt 11 In In- unavoidable c a with vitt unrefined lImo 4 y t fined fluted me men nien it Its It u usi b by girls Is It simply p odious and a direct reflection upon the attention and 1 taste of their moth muth- K cr cr on This ThIll Is In easily II proved PIo IJ by InQuI Inquiry Into sources of ot tho tim phra phrases c T Take kc for tOJ or example two of ot the hit Jal- I cst est twenty and These have slightly different meanings tho the exact Interpretation of the former fonner being to lo the rear and of the latter laller scamper or 01 lice fico in ha haste te The Tho former had its origin at al the racetrack which ordinarily has only sufficient width to accommodate two twenty-two horses standing side b by side so that 0 tho the twenty third t is necessarily relegated ed to an unfavorable position The use of oC tho tim coined phrase th therefore Implies Im hn- im- im plies piles a knowledge of oC details of ot professional spurt sport the Iho possel possession ilon of or which by a young joung girl Is distinctly 1 ing The Tho second Is 15 a mere substitute substitute for Itself of ot American origin and now now by common assent as egregiously vulgar Scores of ot like hike I 5 illustrations might be put in evidence but these should ld suffice to lo convince a 1 I S mother teacher or er even a a. comparatively comparatively Uvel Ignorant girl herself herselt of ot tho the de desirability de de- 1 r of ot seeking seeking- the roots of ot terms whoso whose use she h has ha 8 come corne to regard as asan asan asan an evidence of ot smartness The mother of or the present dR day for tor whose whoso comrade comrado relationship with her boys boy we wo have profound admiration is 1 likely to bo Lo 1 so 0 apprehensive e that her 1 daughter may I seem eem old fashioned and andE E lack some sone of ot the tho immediately modern t competitive fascinations that she he unwisely unwisely un un- un It wisely tolerates practices disagreeable t to herself Apparently Apparent she has yet et to lo learn that to the Intelligent American of ot marriageable age ago pertness la is as i fj distasteful as even en priggishness |