Show m n LM bif R all S F cull mrs frank leslie in a letter to the lill idelphia times ex arcs aca hersel Pon alio subject of llie american girt of the period the american girl of the period then is of many varieties but may be principally classed auder four generic beadi 1 the domestic girl 2 the girl 3 the fashionable girl 4 the advanced girl the first id perhaps the smallest division now although at a period not long bince it was the largest but there are hundreds of dear sweet domestic girls who lake the housekeeping off the tired mothers are good to the younger children are the trusted confidante of the elder brothers sorrows and the comforter nf the beauty sister when she gets into scrapes or disappointments thia is the girl whom a young roan may safely marry before he has mad liis furtune for she will kielp instead of hinder bis making it and she will form and keep tuch a home for him that he will be really able to reat in it such is the domestic girl of whom I 1 know a few and wah I 1 many more then them ia the learned girl the girl who wishes to be fitted for college just as her brother i who devours greek roots as other girls do candied ginger who has views and only waits to bo her own mistress before aho promulgates them she is the legislator tho statesman the generalissimo of alie future she studies political economy with intention and she crams her mind with theories and schemes but although slightly impossible the learned girl is but a girl after all and the day may come when loves problems will interest her more than euclida Euc lids and the simple conjugation of amo absorb her as greek and sanskrit Sans crit never did then wo have the fashionable girl and perhaps I 1 know her beat because I 1 see her most the trouble with the thoroughly fashionable girl is that she is unreal she has been trained from infancy into artificiality she was dressed and brought down to the drawing room to see mammas visitors before her recollection and the late hours thebon irons the and teasing left their tracer upon her aind at the stage when the fresh abbet receives the most ct casily im pres never to be effaced efT aced she went to a fashionable school and she and her companions rivaled ich other in details of society gossip picked jip at home and although fashion forbids grand toilets to school girla they mado up the enforced simplicity of today to day by planning the luxury ot the day when they should join their elder sisters in society she leaves school and at once forgets it in the discussion of the first ball docsa and the hopes of the coming season once set afloat the fashionable girl is in danger of losing what individuality she may detill nave retained for as e all know fashionable society Is a devouring and assimilating his victims and allowing no aude pen dence bof thought or action to any one of his votaries vot aries this is the girl whom the saturday some apara ago selected among english girls as the girl of the period to be held up to scorn and derision nor would llie calro have bitten so deeply had it not been compounded with truth that girl was shown to be heartless indolent vain and utterly selfish calculating coldly upon her chances of marrying a rich man and scheming to that end with all the little mental power she possesses finally perhaps selling herself with open eyes to a man she neither loves nor respects for money and position |