The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-05-19
Rowdyism Around School Houses.

There is dirty inlpeltincnce I'VE use
this term as relevant to the subject that
crops ont more or less heavily in every
community. It IS one Of the phenomena Of
human action, and its exact quantity can
be determined By the law Of the ebb and
| flow Of nastiness. Generated in the mud
of the streets, 1t often makes swamp at
the basement Of dccency. We speak of
the incipiency of the moral disease that
ends in state Of things ike that in
White Friars OF Anglo-urban renown,
which Macaulay says was infested with
roaring bullies and raging vixens.
We refer to the indescf:bably mean
things of those whom a comical poet
styles "Younga Amerika.' Set up'
with something to take" perfumed
with tobacco, and big with prospective
villainy, he opens his career. It is this
being who with the license of every holi-
day gets drunk on old beer, plows the dirt
with his face, and imposes upon older
people. In brainless vociferations he
spills his minimum OF sense upon the dis
gusted air. Ne observe that it is this
same individual that, hungry for parental
advice, aches to make exhibitions Of
character around school houses and other
establishments Of supposable decency.
Here we remark in slight deviation that
it is disgrace to the community to have
so much human caterwauling about the
Park. It should be known as an histori-
cal fact that whistling long since ceased to
be popular. and is now tolerable only from
the lips Of stable boys under the lee of
ClG horses.
Another nuisance is, that numberless
panes Of glass are broken and thus use
less expense is incurred Such perpetra-
tons are by this same "Younga Ameri-
ka" which in the inspiration of vulgal in
fuencas, has learned to throw stones,
pigs feet, and bad bread. Doubtless, if
we should visit the house of his unfor-
tunate progenitcrs, we should find many
a shingle where there ought to be pane
of glass.
Recently, during school hours, our at
tention was attracted by an unusual up
roar upon an adjoining sidewalk. and we
were surprised to see a number Of fe-
males Of considerable magnitude comfort
ing themselves into all the fashionless va
riations of physical couceit and promiscu-
Gus squirmishness. One OF their feats
was to bow their faces nearly to their
toes, like Simeon Stylites Of whom Glib
bon speaks; and at the same time they
uttered sounds that can best be described
BY the poetic hyperboIe Of Virgil, where
be says female yells struck the stars.
But Simeon Stylites was an ascetio monk
Of the first order, and belonged to the
class that Byron mentions, 'who hope to
merit heaven by making earth o hell. l"
Unlike the old monk in purpose, they in
action show character quite different. As
| q close observer Of humaR nature, we
know that, at least, majority OF girls
need maternal advice, and that without
| this evil consequences may follow. And
here we publicly announce that even in
large towns there are plenty Of by-ways
and lanes where uproarious individuals
can give vent to all unseemly utterances.
1t is an historic conclusion that when
a perfect police shall have been establish
cd over the world. romance will end. But
we should consider it profitable loss to
thus secure decency. Now there may be
no legal authority to rid ourselves of this
nuisance, but we opine we have the con-
structive right to organize ourselves into
a police Of one and help those pets from
the Park and vicinity by means of our Pc
dal extremities. o.