Fashionable Girls.

Secretary Bayard's daughter died of too many balls, late hours and fashinable folderol, the St. Paul Globe says. And it goes on to say, "with all the senseless exactions of fashionable society, the girls and women of to-day are going down to premature graves, or if they live, it is as confirmed invalids."

All right let 'em go down. They are worthless and good for nothing anyway, and isn't the entire woman race drifting into that channel, even the farmer girls that should be bright eyed and rosy cheeked are striving in the same direction, to teach, or act as a saleslady behind a counter, to sew pink ribbon on bonnets as a milliner, or to cut on the bias as a dressmaker.

Why it is we cannot understand. Everybody with sense likes women that can work at woman's work, such as house keeping, cooking and laundrying, yet all the girls, both of rich and poor parentage, think such work beneath them and degrading. Our girls are not coming up as a help for mothers, and taught to do mother's work, but are fitted with music, drawing and languages for a band box, or a trip to Europe to show up before the queen, requiring an army of maids to wait upon her.

It is said, and said with reason too, that you can marry half a dozen girls easier than you can hire one. It has come to the condition of things that skilled help for the family is not to be had, while school teachers, sales ladies, milliners or sewing women, are crowded and opportunities scarce.

What is the world to do when all the girls become ladies, too good to work. In the ranks of men there are hewers of wood and drawers of water. Boys make farmers and blacksmiths and tradesmen like their fathers, but the girls are not taught like their mothers to knit and bake pies and mold bread. Or if they are, they do not propose to use their experience till after marriage, and then only of they are so uunlucky as to mary a poor man. If we owned a dozen girls (which we wish heartily we did) not one of them should break down her health teaching school, standing for hours behind a counter, or singing the song of the shirt, while so many opportunities are offered in excellent families of a good home, tender respect and friendship, with a fair compensation at healthful employment. Girls can't all marry merchant princes, or foreign counts, and if they could it is nothing against them to know better how to care for a kitchen and a family, than to sell buttons and calico, or cut a seven flounce dress with two polonaise.