Sometimes, when I am walking along the street, I catch snatches of
conversation as I pass by a group of little girls. And often I hear the
phrase "He said" this, or "He said" that. There are girls who do not
seem to talk about much else but what this boy or that boy has said, and
these girls I call "he-said" girls.
Now, of course it is all right for girls to think about the boys. We
could not stop that if we would, and we would not stop it if we could.
The danger comes when a girl thinks of little else. The girl who begins
by devoting all her thought to boys is apt to end by being a very
unattractive and unpopular sort of woman. Every girl ought to get along
well with the girls of her own age as well as with the boys. There is
something wrong with the girl who cannot get along with her girl
friends. And so I say to you that if you do not want to be thoroughly
unhappy as a woman, try to win the friendship of girls as well as boys.
A good plan for the "he-said" girl is to take her father as her ideal,
and hero and lover. Then, as she grows to womanhood, she will not be
satisfied with any man who is not in some measure as good as her father.
In the meanwhile beware of being a "he-said" girl.