Side talks with girls

[A late 19th century guide to life for girls from the Ladies' Home Journal; includes a discussion on "Girl life in New York City"] Bound in publisher's red cloth, with printed bow. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. viii, 252 pages ; 19 cm. Stamp on repd, title. "The average girl, as Ruth Ashmore knows her, is "between eighteen and twenty-four, whole-hearted, happy, generous, pretty and pleasant to look upon, and very anxious to do what is right." It is to help this average girl out of her small perplexities and into a sphere of womanly activity that this little book is written. As Mrs. Ashmore says, 'The American girl has shown, all the world over, her adaptability. Now let her make the best society wherever she may be. She can do it, for she does not lack brains, she does not lack consideration, but just at times, she does not see the value of conventionality. I want her to think over how it protects her; I want her to be the girl in society, popular and pleasant, whose greatest charm is that, while she is courteous to everybody, she is always sincere and doesn't make blunders. That is the art of social life.'" - NYT, September 21, 1895, Page 3.…