The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Girl Wanted, by Nixon Waterman

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: The Girl Wanted

Author: Nixon Waterman

Release Date: September 21, 2008 [EBook #26683]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GIRL WANTED ***

Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

[Illustration: MARTHA WASHINGTON]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

THE GIRL WANTED

A BOOK OF FRIENDLY THOUGHTS

BY

NIXON WATERMAN

AUTHOR OF "BOY WANTED,"
"A BOOK OF VERSES," "IN
MERRY MOOD," ETC.

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 has been brought
about by the publication of the author's work entitled, "Boy
Wanted," which he presented as "a book of cheerful counsel to his
young friends and such of the seniors as are not too old to accept
a bit of friendly admonition."

The warm welcome accorded that book, and the many requests it has
called forth for a similar companion volume for girls, has prompted
the author to prepare the series of papers offered herewith, with
the hope that they, too, may find as many youthful friends (between
the ages of seven 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 number of the world's
foremost teachers and philosophers of all times, while the author,
with a due sense of modesty, lays claim to all such examples of
versification as are to be found within this book.

In these days when the women of the world, with such splendid success,
are writing books for the moral guidance and spiritual uplift of the
men and youth of every land, an author need not feel cal