My own experience has been that it is the sentimental girl who writes--and says--"rearly" and "warfted," and the following curiosities in spelling are culled from the--unpublished--works of girl-novelists: "He had suffered the yolk of tyranny." "She carried a little book, with guilt edges, a prayer-book." [Illustration: THE YOLK OF TYRANNY] The girl who describes a prayer-book as a book with "guilt" edges is almost guilty of profanation. Tell her this, and so far is this sort of girl from being a hardened sinner that the strong likelihood is that she will never again commit this error. An appeal to her heart is always better than an appeal to her head. This fact was realised by the Israelite who said to a young maiden of this type who had written "sinagog" for "synagogue," "You must not spell the name of our temple like that. It is not only incorrect, but very unkind spelling." "I will never spell so again," was the young maiden's answer. Sometimes the defence of her spelling put forward by the girl of sentimental rather than logical bias is very remarkable. "'Court-material,'" said recently a young English damsel who had written "court-material" for "court-martial," "makes quite as much sense to me as 'court-martial.'" The objection to this form is, of course, that it does not make quite as much sense to other people. It may be asked now, Does the non-sentimental girl experience no difficulties in connection with spelling? Certainly she does. She was heard the other day saying that the word assassination had been a standing difficulty to her until another girl told her that it began with "two asses" as thus, ass-ass-ination. The non-sentimental girl has also been known to say, looking up from a book-- [Illustration: UNDER A BAD SPELL] "Hullo, here's 'wobble' spelt not with an 'o' but with an 'a'--'wabble.' Now I wonder which is the right spelling." This is perhaps the place in which to say that there is nothing more difficult than to determine what forms the line of demarcation between the sentimental and the non-sentimental girl. There are persons who assert that a girl who uses the interjection Hullo! may be safely termed non-sentimental, but that is so far from being true that among the girl-readers of this paper there will be one with whom Hullo! is a favourite expletive, and who said, this summer, as a full-blown rose which she was presenting to a person greatly loved by her fell in a shower of petals to the ground, "Even the roses fall at your feet." That was surely the language of sentiment. Others assert that girls who wear men's collars with men's neckties may safely be dubbed non-sentimental, but it was a girl in boy's attire to the waist whom the writer of this paper heard say in reference to a beautiful woman to whom she gave the whole homage of the girl's heart that beat under the boyish garb that she favoured, "She is ordered by her doctor to Buxton to drink the waters. Happy waters!"