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Show THE SOCIETY GIRL. As Defined by the Cash Girl and the Sunday Editor. (Boston Transcript.) Lexicography, the sport of Dr. Johnson, John-son, is sometimes "more fun than the Injuns." Lately a local paragrapher being asked to define a society girl, returned re-turned an evasive answer; whereupon I took .pains to obtain the following elucidations: From Bessie, the cash girl: "A society so-ciety girl is a girl that don't work. She has champagne for breakfast, smokes 25-cent cigars, never bets less than a thousand at Readville, and usually gets a divorce from the count before she is 19." From the Sunday editor: "A society girl is a member of the Thoroughbred Social club, Charlestown, or the Elite Dramatic association. South Boston. She performs in minstrel shows, has her picture taken at Revere Beach, and is secretly married with vast publicity." pub-licity." From the Harvard Junior: "Any girl who dances, plays bridge and golfs, but whose conversation shuns the intellectual in-tellectual as Harvard men shun the Lagrage Street station." From Rastus Jones: "An accomplished accom-plished lady cakewalker." From the Society Girl herself: "No such creature exists. She Is a mere invention in-vention of the newspapers." From the Century Dictionary: "A girl numbered among 'those persons of wealth and position who profess to act in accordance with a more or less artificial arti-ficial and exclusive code of etiquette." From the Clerk of the Day: "Any young woman of any color, ae, pursuit, pur-suit, taste, type or degree of civilization." |