| THE GIRL WANTED |
| A BOOK OF FRIENDLY THOUGHTS |
| BY |
| NIXON WATERMAN |
| AUTHOR OF "BOY WANTED," "A BOOK OF VERSES," "IN MERRY MOOD," ETC. |
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| CHICAGO FORBES AND COMPANY 1919 |
Copyright, 1910, By
Forbes and Company
| TO |
| —The girl wanted, who, By her beautiful ways, Shall brighten and gladden Life’s wonderful days. |
PREFACE
The pleasure of giving to the public this volume hasbeen brought about by the publication of the author’s work entitled,"Boy Wanted," which he presented as "a book of cheerful counselto his young friends and such of the seniors as are not too old to accept a bitof friendly admonition."
The warm welcome accorded that book, and the manyrequests it has called forth for a similar companion volume for girls, hasprompted the author to prepare the series of papers offered herewith, with thehope that they, too, may find as many youthful friends (between the ages ofseven and seventy) awaiting them.
In the present volume, as in "Boy Wanted,"the fine prose thoughts are selected from the writings of a very large numberof the world’s foremost teachers and philosophers of all times, while theauthor, with a due sense of modesty, lays claim to all such examples ofversification as are to be found within this book.
In these days when the women of the world, with suchsplendid success