The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-28
DRUNKEN CHICAGO WOMEN.
Handsome Girls TOttering from
"Confectioners' Quiet.
Cabs.
Cor. st. Paul Globe.

Cor. st. Paul Globe.
OF course [ will apologize to the fair
sex for speaking of the ''refreshment
rooms" of popular confectionery shops
and restaurants as drinking saloons"
but such they certainly are, and if any
one will take pains to test the truth of
this statement he'll find an eXtraordin-
AIRY demand for handsome and gurneys
in front of these places late i'll the after
noon of any pleasant day. 'Cobby"
knows his business and says nothing.
He's been there before. He discharges
his fair patron at her own door in as
comfortable manner as possible, while
a "siclI headache" prevents the lady from
appearing with the family at tea-table.
If the sexes were reversed the verdict
would be 1.-THE old man is drunk" But
in this case INA is worn out with shop
ping"
have seen young ladies scarcely out
of their teens emerging from these places
in a state OF inebriety that verged upon
total obliviousness. A restauranteur told
me that his best paying customers were
ladies of wealth and position, who could
afford private room and the best wine
his house afforded. "Why," said he,
give had as many as ten ladies at one
time in my upper parlors none of them
able to walk across the room. What dc
l do with 'em? Let 'em alone, refuse
more wine and give them all the apol
linaris and lemon they'll drink, and send
'em home at the proper time"
A
Bringing a Young Man to Terms.
Philadelphia Times.
Since time began there have been ma
ny tricks of Cupid and many wiles o
merry maidens to catch and hold a fickl'
lovers love. The utmost of feminine
ingenuity has been exercised with thi
object in view not always with the hap
piest results. Still, no certain rule ha
been found that will always work as de
sired. Other problems work out thei
own solution in their own way and time
but this one is obstinate. Try as wOmel
will, in each new method there is likel
to be a hitch, which now and then end
in a disastrous break.
In the progress of events, however
new emergencies develop new ideas.
Brooklyn young lady has hit upon
plan which is to be commended for il
originality, whatever may be its ultimat
results. There were the usual summe
night scenes in the silver light Of tn
moon, the usual vows interchangeC
with the usual embraces. Then the fickl
lover tried in the usual way and, will
out asking leave, began to seek the soci'
" of other girls. An ordinary youL
woman would have gone into a dream
melancholy, from which she woul
doubtless have emerged a confirmed cy
mic and man-hater; but the heroine {
this sketch was not an ordinary woman
She merely attached the young man
bank account and settled with him {
her own price.
There are balms for pretty nearly e
cry wounded heart and it will surpri.
no one to learn that the Brooklyn yoUr
woman sits smiling in the midst of HI
grief With the larger part of her fick
lovers fortune in her possession she ca
snap her fingers at fate and occasional
admit that, in some cases at least, me
are not an unmiXed evil. And it won
be quite in accord with feminine prec
dent if before long she married son
other fellow who CHANGED her way al
devoted the money acquired from Il
only man she thought she could ev
love to furnishing another mans hou
and making him believe himself happ
The Egyption Obelisk, which was for
time the wonder of New York, and t
importation of which cost VIM; H. Va
derbiIt $4,000, has dropped almc
wholly out of notice.