Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-08
Plugging as 8 Fine Art.
A Chicago Parents Sensible Advice to a
 Brushing Lover.


 [Frsm the Milwaukee Sum-
 queer case has just come to light in Chicago A young man spent an evening with his girl, and during the evening, while the family was present in the parlor. he was as demure and bland and child-like as could
 be wished The mother came into the room after the family had retired to get handker- chief she had left, and the young man was seated in 8 chair in the middle of the room.
 while the girl was seated on a sofa, and noth- ing that the mother could see in the actions of either led her to think they were more than passing acquaintances. It seemed to her as though the young people had met be- fore, but there was no evidence that they were very well acquainted. All night, after he had gone, the girl complained of pain in her side, and in the morning 6 doctor was
 called, and he found that two of the girls
 ribs were broken. How it was done nobody
 knew. The girl could not tell for the life of her, though she blushed when asked about 1t,
 and the mother looked very wise as she looked at the doctor. The doctor made some inquiries, set the ribs and went away, and the | girl proceeded to recover.
 That evening the young man called and was astonished when informed of the extent
 of the girls injuries, and wondered how it could have happened, though the mother watched his face closely as he spoke and de- tected not only blush but profuse perspi- ration on his face. She had been girl once herself, and though she had never had any ribs broken she had been hugged some. It
 was trying position for all of them. The father was away on trip to Wisconsin, and 1 when he came home the matter had to be ex- plained to him. He was told that the ribs just simply broke themselves, and that neither the mother nor the girl nor the young man could account for it, and yet all three of them blushed terribly. The father patted 1 his girl on the head, told her she would be Uh ba u0E i the young man into the library The young : man was SO weak he could hardly walk, and
 when be sat down he took out a handksr- i chief and mopped his brow and wished he
 was dead. The father looked the young msn
 over and was sorry. He finally said:
 ''Young man, I guess can give you some
 points on hugging. You must first learn ! that girl is not constructed on the same
 principle of an iron fence or truss bridge. i A girl is delicate piece of mechanism, like 8
 fine watch, full of little springs, wheels, jew
 els, &o. The breaking of any one of these
 would cause her to cease keeping time and
 nscessitate her being taken to jeweller for
 repairs. In hugging girl you don't want to | go at it as if you were raking and binding, 1 or catching sturgeon. I know that where
 the family sits up late with young couple l and spoils several precious hours of hugging, 1 when left alone with the object of his afec- 1 tion, that he is liable to overdo the matter ! and try to make up for lost time. He seems l to want to hug up lot ahead and graps the I girl as though he wanted to break her in two. 1 This is wrong. You should go at it calmly
 and deliberately, even pray erfully, end be as gentle as though she was an ivory fan. The l gentle pressure of the hand that girl loves, 1 even the touch is as dear to her as though l you run her through stone-crusher You
 should not grab her as you would bag of oats, and leave marks on her that will last lifetime. A loving woman should not be made to feel that her life is in danger unless she wears corset made of boiler-lron- l hope this will be lesson to you, and here after, if you cannot control your feelings, 1
 will provide a wooden Indian for you to prac-
 tice on at first, until you have developed your muscle and got tired, and then we can turn our daughter loose in a room with you and not feel that it is necessary to keep a surgeon handy. In allowing you to keep company with my daughter I do not agree to
 provide you with human gymnasium,
 dressed in Mother Hubbard wrapper and
 wearing bangs You can readily sec that a girl would not last season through if she had to have ribs set once a week Please think this thing over, and if the girl is well
 enough next Sunday you can drop in and try some more ribs. Now you go home and hug 8 hat-rack for an hour or two, and have It repaired in the morning
 The young man went out into the night air, took his hat of to cool his head and hired man to kick him