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Show Social Amenities for the School Girl. tm IF there Is one way more than another in which a young girl can show bad form It is in the way she treat the men acquaintances of an older sister. Sad to relate, the type of pert younger sister exists, even flourishes, unless there be a strong hand to put her down. And because be-cause older persons fn-quently laugh nt her and the girl succeeds In "fussing" her older sister, the younger one considers herself a huge success, and continues in a manner, or with Inck.of it. calculated to create a 'prejudice against herself that only long years, cap wipe out. If thercjs ever a time when a young girl will do well to keep herself out of the way it is when the friondu of her oldci sister arc present. Grown up personr, parents, nnd their friends hnve a certain toleration of children, little or big, which girls and boys of nineteen and twenty cannot be,cxpected to have. There really isn't any -use in,- n little sister making herself unpopular, even if she docs create a laugh wiiiloiso doing, and there is ho ''question that she will be heartily u,niler the bail ofnn older sister whom the oMiPr'raak'cVnitnrget for her sharp'1 tongue,' or whose scrcls she "gives! away," because the- child thinks they ' nrp funny. '' ',-.;;. , To tolltho trutfilf It, In not only the J grown F.ijiw'JP. Yv'yL'anitCDr.'hcUcr byj theiyouu'ger one's aUsSnce, buJ tjielitllef BSSSSBSSShBhKHMbmbbI sister" herself will gain greater popularity. popu-larity. Grown girls and men who go to sec one of their own set do not euro to have their time and n Mention monopolized by one who is too young for their notice, or, at least, whom they consider to bq such. Yet. because they are well bred, thpy mud be Klite to her, being annoyed proportionately. One great objection to a young girl's being with her older sister's friends, and probably the strongest reason why she should not be, is the nlmost irresistible temptation to talk personalities, frankly to tell what she knows, not always stois-plng stois-plng there, but- unconsciously exaggerating. exaggerat-ing. It is not at all improbable that the! others may find this amusing, even instructive, in-structive, in the side lights thrown on' the characteristics of older sister aud her; friends, but that, as a rule, is far from desirable. If it Is a joke the younger girl tells, or a personal fact that woilul be unknown save for her, it -Is remembered remem-bered in the set o-Z acquaintances, aud also that the younger one divulged. Tho listeners mny he highly interested at the time, unwittingly flattering the juvenile talker by their nttcntiou, bnt If counts against her later, junt (he Kainci Not qiily doefl she' make honu-lf vastly, unpopular, with ln'-'owp family, but out. shjiu'i.areg prone to i-posidcr her a 'fri ror, saymj, "she' ought '6 lie s.upl . nni. pressed." themselves developing a fear Kfii of her tongue thnt makes them prefer her ' JW&C absence to her presence. JnThl The same is true if the younger sister gSn rofrnius from personalities, and merely ffijff occupies the attention of her sister's JSs! I frie;idR in other ways. She puts herself , J .'forward then undesirably; she gains th. -W&- repiitation of being pert, nnd instead of ;!?,'( J their regarding her as a sweet nnd attrac- . fBt live young girl they think of her as 0110 ' MTO. to be avoided. fS? Just as long ns girls are girls, and that r Sg they will be forever ib a matter for re- Wf joicing, they vi!l play tricks and prank 0 Egj! ion older sister and Votlienu This is .1 ," JC"rj J family matter that must be worked out ; Ultj between the individual, and one is the !. PgTW worse for it. But to play practical jokes 1 on the friends of older sisters and - JJ$i brotherK is vlllainouji. because the per- llrk petrator nlways makes herself immensely f.Q disliked. Invnrinbly the end of a prac- ?'J Ucul joke is lo put the person on whom ajHjr ; it is played in 11 ridiculous position, and e tliuru does not live the joung perbon fand ilf4 few of mature years) who takes this with jr0 equanimity and forgives it. jE8 The surest way out of the temptntioti ffgjfo of being funny at the expense of an older j Sfv sistor and her friends is to keep a v. ay ' Sv"' from where they are. , ; IM That docs not preclude "having fun"! r "trt with the older sibter when there is no 1 nAi !, one pise nboq. ' 'H -'late |