Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-16
"ROSEBUDDY."
Boston Girls Not so Cold as They Are
Painted.

You ask me how [ like the Boston
girls. Just like them, and that S q fact.
They are better than their reputation
and they aren't They know more-of
hirtatiOn-less of books and affectatiOn,
than they are credited with, and are
much better looking. In fact, if Bos-
ton girl is beauty she holds a flush
hand, and / never found q town where
girls, as Il collective noun, were more
fond of the stronger sex who has repu-
tation for Observation-Disclosures usually
lent them, rather than their personal
property, by the footlights. 1t is highly
proper, however, that such things should
be in the greatest show town in Ameri-
ca. AprOpOs of this is little anecdOte
of Harry DiXey. who has done more to
make POunce d Co. run than any one
else in the company, in spite of the fac
that he is the only one of whom the au-
thor speaks in terms of dissatisfaction,
for DiXey is popular with the girls;
when he walks down the street, they
turn and walk after him in manner
that assures one that Gilbert was not eX-
aggerating, mot all, not at all, not at
all, when he created Runthorne and
Grosvenor. A few days since, the much
admired young man, who has danced
himself into fame upon as trim pair
of neither limbs (of which he is Justly
proud) rs nature does not give many of
us-ankles straight, knees turned out,
you know-was walking along one of
our thoroughfares. with q trail behind
of girls that seemed, like rolling snow
ball, to gather forces every moment, I'M
til in despair, he rushed into an adjacent
music store, and in q very impatient
tone exclaimed For Gods sake, hide
me somewhere from all these wOmen!'
Nor is this the only incident of the kind,
as the habitues of fremont street, be-
tween the fremont House and the
Museum, assure me, where groups of
school girls can be seen before and af-
ter every matinee watching for a glimpse
of Jack Mason. When George Sweet
was taking his princely fling and en-
ioying it right royalty, too, ut the Bos-
ton, a fortnight since, it was the regu-
lar thing-a bit of the business OF the
engagement-tO see some of the most
rosebuddv of 1.-the rosebud garden of
girls hanging about to see Don Gaes-
tan sans stage toggery, and once saw
three little buds walking boldly up to
the stage entrance under II small bat
terv of masculine eyes. to enjoy the
emotion of sending flowers to an actor.
The worst phrase of the matter to me is
that these same admirers catch greedi-
ly at any of the silly gossip about these
adored actors, the more to their dis
credit the more greedily swallowed
whole, and retailed with relish Why, acts
of heroism in the chivalrous days never
threw such q glamour over young girls
fancies as stories of dissipation and in
trigue lend an actor in their eyes. There
is something wrcng in this generation
of girls. but whether it is an argument
in favor of the old doctrine of original
sin, or against the present system OF
education in battalions, | cannot say.
Ask the dominic if he thinks girls are
born without knowledge enough of ma
chinery to know that q steam guage will
run up to everything and blow the con-
Germ all 80 shoe-strings if there isn't a
hand on the lever? / give YOU, chum,
in all sincerity, commandment number
the xiiith: Thou shalt not marry a
woman who, at %, is given to enthu-
siasm for actors. "-Boston Home Jour-
nal.