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The modern English-speaking young girl is the astonishment of the world / and the despair of the older generation. Nothing like her has ever been / seen or heard before. Alike in drawing-rooms and the amusement places of / the people, she defies conventions in dress, speech, and conduct. She is / bold, yet not immoral. She is immodest, yet she is chaste. She has no / ideals, yet she is kind and generous. She is an anomaly and a paradox.
_WE are the little daughters of Time and the World his wife_, / _We are not like the children_, _born in their younger life_, / _We are marred with our mother's follies and torn with our father's / strife_.