The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07
UNPROTECTED Men.

There has been great deal of talk in
the papers about arresting "mashers,"
that is, young men who stand on the cor
ners and pulverize women, and great
many good people got the idea it was un-
safe to travel the streets. This is not the
case. A woman might travel all day and
half the night and not be insulted. OF
course, once in in great while, woman
will be insulted by man, the same as
man will be by woman. No woman, un-
less she throws out one eye, kind Of cum
ming, is in danger of having a male man
throw out his other eye the same way.
There has got to be two parties to
mashing match, and one must be a
woman. Too many women act sort OF
queer just for fun, and the poor male man
gets to acting improper before he realizes
the enormity of the crime, and then it is
everlastingly too late. But female
masher, one who is thoroughly bad, like
the male 1oafers that have been driven
from the corners, is terror. She will
insult respectable man and laugh at
his bushes. One of them was arrested
the other day for playing her act on
policeman who was disguised as respect
able granger from Stevens Point. These
female mashers are tornado. Why, one
of them met q respectable church mem
ber the other night, and asked him how
his liver complaint wasl He was q man
who had been troubled with the liver
complaint, and supposing she was some
acquaintance, he stopped on the corner
and talked with the pullet for about ten
minutes, explaining to her the course OF
treatment he had used to cure him, and
dozens Of people passing by that knew
him, and knew that he was clear of. Fl
nally she asked him if he wouldn't take
her to q restaurant and buy her spring
chicken and small bottle. He told her
if she would come up to his house she
could have hen, and there were lots OF
bottles, both large and small, that she
was welcome to. She told him to go to
hades, and he went in drug store and
asked clerk who that lady was he had
been talking with, and when the clerk,
who knew her, told him she was road
agent, street walker, female masher,
the old man had to sit down on a box of
drugs and fan himself with his hat. We
mention this to show that the ladies are
not the only portion of our population
that is liable to be accosted and insulted
The other night respectable merchant
was going to the opera with friend from
the country, when couple of sirens met
them and one said to the other, "Look
at his nibs," and she locked arms with
him and asked him if he was not her
darling He said his name was not
'Nibs," and he would have to look at
his memorandum book before he could
tell whether he was her darling or not, but
from the smell of gin about her person
he should blush to extemporize. We dc
not give his exact language, but in the
heat of debate he shook her and told her
if she ever clawed on to him again he
would everlastingly go and tell her pa.
rents. And while he was talking with
her the other one had seated herself be-
side his country friend on a salt barrel ir
front of grocery and was feeling in his
vest pocket to see if he had any cloves.
A female masher is as much worse than
male masher as you can imagine. Who
ever heard of male masher feeling il
an unprotected females vest pocket fol
cloves? o, the men are simply unpro
tected, and at the mercy of wicked, de
signing women, and the police ought t.
protect them.-Pecks SaIs1.