Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-04-25
SOCIETY STRATA.
In Irregular Order-Number 2.
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wig-weariDg old tools who think they
are great Washers. The class is not
confined to the male sex, as some
suppose, for many of the weaker sex
are the stronger Washers. You hardly
ever see pretty girl or woman
standing statue-like on the streets
waiting to make mash, but while
INDUCING in the lesser excitement Of
shopping or going to church or
theatre she keeps her weather eye
peeled for masbes. In fact, it is re-
lated of the girls at Cornell University
and other schools of lesser note that,
they having nothing better to mash,
they mash each other, but we suspect
these are rather mussy mashes. Be
this as it may, we believe they gradu-
ate with the degree of f. NJ. NJ,
which means female masher.
The masher is of very modern orr
gin, the writer though not very old
having voted tor two or three Presi-
dents before the first masher made a
mash. We have in fact seen the
Washers grow up and we know all
about them. They are very useful
component part of the body polite
in our great republic, in which they
are indigenous; or, properly speak
ing, we invented The Washers to sup
ply want long felt, and it is difficult
70 Imagine how our fathers and
mothers got along without MASKING.
And now, if Washers were blotted out,
what a great void would be lett in
society-American society, Tor our
siow-golng neighbors have stubbornly
refused to import them.
The professional male masher
dresses well and rivalry in business
prompts HIM to court his mirror
almost as sedulously as does the
pretty belle, and, like her, lie i'm
proves every opportunity to peep
into glass and see If his necktle or
something is not awry. 1t is a sight
to see him leisurely promenading in
pursuit OF mash, or, like beautiful
statue, when at "rest,' as the military
men say, he is waiting to mash some
pretty passsr. OF course he never
sits down for fear of bagging the
knees of his perfect fitting pants.
A first rate San Francisco masher
sometimes on good days for MASKING
makes five or six mashes, but in Sill
yer City, where there are few mashees,
the masher Of this office, who is not
surpassed on the Comstock, rarely
makes more than one mash day. In
large city he would no donbt be
great success, if not the master
masher.
Among the engineers of our mills
and mines there are some very fair to
average Washers. When they are
not on shift they are shifting round
in the MASKING business, and there
is rumor that one OF more has been
caught in the meshes of the mashees.
However this may be, the mashees
might meander further and mash
worse Washers.
b. II. NJ, though generally too
busy with his books to attend strictly
to MASKING, is developing first-class
talent in that line and will soon mash
q mashee as well as the best.
A. b. s. mashes very gracefully,
and mashees rarely miss a mash
when passing that way MASKING.
Z. W. G.. is not slow as masher
and makes about as many mashes as
any of them.
G. II. is generally MASKING all day.
Being conductor of a delivery wagon,
his opportunities are many and he
never fails to get in the first mash on
any new mashee who comes to town.