The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-07-26
WHERE AL THE e1eLss
Follles of the Day Illustrated by Con-
duct iitAPublic.

young woman and h.Asweetheart. She
was bouncing maide, ,Rftbe Daisy Mil.
Ter type-he an Insignificant looking
young dude with caterpillar colored fuzz
on his upper lip and HI, two or three
sizes too small for his sm;A head. The
agony of parting almost o Acame them.
Their sweet SORROW was loDl Adrawn out.
Their lips clung together in s&nany long
kisses, while he whispered all nothipgs
in her ear and embraced her Repeatedly
and she wept and aobbed inee, Sr freshly
ironed handkerchief The eyes $pf every
one in the car were upon them, and Gym.
ical and scohing remarks we're plenty.
At last they tore Themselves apart.
The eastern bound express rolled out of
the. depot, the passengers settled them
selves for the journey and the young
Pullman conductor made his 6rst ap-
pearsnce with great brilliancy and eclat.
How it happened I cannot tell, for m!sA
thoughts were busy elsewhere, but after
little raised my eyes and 10 "Cholly"
was forgotten. Daisy's tears we're dried
and she was conducting, according to the
best knowledge and most authentic rules
of the game, successful Irritation with
the young conductor. She giggled, she
made eyess4he ffowned prettily, she was
SO charmingly helpless about the window,
she must have water and oranges, and the
dickens knows what, and the railway
aedgeling vas at her beck and call. Next
morning the Irritation made percep.
tible progress. Daisy went to breakfast
with gilt buttons and blue clothes, and
what there was inside of them. She
donned her ulster and the big haring
Gainsborough and went out and rode
upon the platform .'to look at the seen.
cry" which consisted mainly of fat
meadows, freshly plowed, and was ac.
cordingly of SURPRISING beauty. She
talked at the top of her lungs, and in.
formed the other passengers that nov she
guessed she'd better wash her hands, and
anon she guessed she'd have pillow.
This being brought, she made great use
of it for the further subjugation of the
unhappy conductor, for taking it, she
posed upon it such effective attitudes ss
to win glances of approval and speeches
of admiration from the infatuated, hope.
lessly besotted youth. In fact, for sever.
al hundred miles Daisy formed the
staple amusements for a Car full of pas.
tengers.
Being delayed for several hours in an
out. OF tbe-way town on the following day,
/ watched the gradual unfolding OF
another sudden attachment. Daisy the
second was also travelling alone. She was
pretty girl, but had a look Of brazen,
full bloom coguetry in her eyes. a man
who certainly looked old enough to know
better. man with wrinkled face and
blase eyes, made her acquaintance. He
was devotion itself. He sat by her and
stared into her pretty, peachy face with q
vicious gaze, and complimented her in
the most bold and horid fashion, and
when | left them in the soft, mellow
twilight che was cuddled up under his
protection like fascinated bird under
the coil of a serpent.
"a gentleman, who has 8 daughter IL
years old, aaid: "Well, if 1 thought my
daughter would act like that, should
want to shoot myself" Both these girls
were we'll dressed and looked as if they,
might be the children of we'll to do pa.
rents. What are the girls doing?
The streets in all our great cities are
filled with girls from IL to 10 who are
ready and willing to airt and make the
acquaintance of any tolerably good look
ing and we'll dressed stranger. So any.
where, in street cars, on trains and
steamers, in parks and on avenues, in
New York or Chicago, yon can witness
any number of such scenes as have de-
scribed. At the hours when shops close
and business men are walking to their
homes this parade is most noticeable. |
have friend, young man who walks
every night from his Office to his rooms, q
distance of many blocks. BE tells me that
every night pretty, we'll dressed girls, not
disreputable women, but daughters of
eminently respectable people, throng
this great thoroughfare to make a
"mash," that they often accost him
even young girls with short skirts and
hair hanging in braids, and by look and
word invite his society. Nor is this an
exceptional case. I often hear of and
/ am witness to these remarkable exhibi'
tions. This ia what the girls are doing.
Now what are the mothers doing? Well,
many of them are absorbed in their
houses, looking after this, arguing about
the width of q pillow case hem, or wheth.
CT hot or cold starch will produce the
most resplendent results. Some Of them
are wrapped up in church work, attend
ing church lectures or making flannel
shirts for the heather, or looking after
the church sociable, or carpeting the
minister's study, or teaching Sunday
school, OF oh mockery, leading a 'moth.
ers'" meeting. The mothers are lost in
theories, while the daughters are learning
frivolity OF something worse.
To the girls who do this sort of thing,
pick up chance acquaintance here and
there, listen to the cheap compliments OF
fellow travellers, railway conductors and
all the other spiders that are on the
watch for foolish flies, I will simply say (:
"You are running tremendous hazard.
You are but the idle amusement of an
idle hour for these men. Don't fatter