WHAT GIRLS THINK.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 7 November 1881, Page 2

WHAT GIRLS THINK.

# - At seventeen Hit? girl think* often of lore, delights in love song*, fills V!oore«'s poems with marks, thick* Byron's face beautiful, eats little in company At eighteen she still thinks « gre*t deal of lo?e; would care nothing for poverty provided abe had a lover who adored her ; iodeed, would rather he poor than rich, where she united to the ideal whom she had not yet met. Still reads a great deal of poetry and novels which deal largely with love and the death of the heroines ; passionately fond of children. At nineteen a little more critic \\ •+ finds some of the poetry that ple.ised her a little weak ; looks about for steadier authors than her old favorities. dances every d^nco ia the ball, and then is not quite so particular as to the men who are introduce! to her. At twenty she is not sure, whether, after all, it would not be better to be an old man's darling , Neyerthlers ahe flirts more uniformly. All her shyness is gone, and she enjoys her food whether people are looking at her or aot A%-4wt»n*y «»«-fe«» b«lief n\6» men is strong ; she has lost preju iice in favor of poverty and cottages, y«>t she would not insist upon money were her ideal to present himself. At 22, she ibitiks her youngest sister rather forward in her manners, par* ticularly with vounij men.

An American clockmak<?r has made a work'n^ steam engine which weigh* only 15^r., and can be co?ered by * tbim v c. Wliiister, the London artist^ is the fanny man among his friend, and the author of motj which would do credit to a professional wii. Notwithstanding the fact th^ no many of the centenari «n^ are n^roes, life insurance men in America declare that the cloured people are as a rule shorter lived than the whites. T;»o*e of mixed blood are still frailer. Consumption is the bane of colonra-l people, and all with coloured bio) ! in 'hpir veins.