Wichita eagle., 1888-06-30
WHERE ARE THE GIRLS?
FOLLlEs OF THE DAY As ILLUS
TRATEe eY CONDUCT m PUBLIC.

somethIng for Careless Mothers 10 Read.
The Dangers OF Observation-Disclosures Of
the Wise-spiders on the Watch fos
Foolish Flies.
In Pullman sleeper the other night
watched an affecting parting between a
young woman and her sweetheart She was
bouncing maiden OF the Daisy Miller type
he an insignificant looking young dude
with caterpillar colored fuzz "a his upper lip
and hat two or thres sizes too small for bis
small head The agony Of parting almost
long drawn out. Their lips chung together
in many long kisses, while he whispered airy
nothings In her ear and embraced her re-
peatediy, and she wept and sobbed into her
freshly ironed handkerchief The eyes Of
every ono In the car were upon them, and
cynical and scofing remarks were plenty.
At last they tore themselves apart
The eastern bound express rolled out OF the
depot, the passengers settled themselves for
the journey and the young Pullman con-
ductor made his first appearance with great
brilliancy and eclat How It happened can
not tell, for my thoughts were busy else
where, but after little raised my eyes and
loi 'Cholly" was forgotten. Daisy's tears
were dried and she was conducting, accord
ing to the best knowledge and most anthem
ito rules Of the game, successful Irritation
with the young conductor. She gtggled, she
made eyes, sae frowned prettiy, she was SO
charrningiy helpless about the window, she
must have water and oranges. and the dick
ems knows what, and the railway fedgehnl.
was at her beck and call Next morning the
Irritation made perceptible progress Daisy
went TO breakfast with gilt buttons and blue
clothes, and Z what there was inside Of
them She donned her ulster and the
big aaring Gainsborough and went out and
rode upon the platform ito look at the seem
cry" which consisted mainly OF fat mead
ows, freshly plowed, and was accordingly Of
surprising beauty. She talked at the top OF
her lungs, and informed the other passen-
gers that now she guessed she'd better wash
her hands, and anon she guessed she'd have a
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 as to win
chances of approval and speeches of admira-
ton from the infatuated. hopelessly besotted
youth. In fact, for several hundred miles
Daisy formed the staple amusement for a car
full Of passengers
Being delayed for several hours in an out
of the-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 coquetry
in her eyes. A man who certainly looked
old enough to Know better, a man with
wrinllled face and blase eyes, made her &C
ouaintance. He WIS devotion itself. He sat
by her and stared into her pretty, peachy
face with vicious gaze, and complimented
her in the most bold and ford fashion, and
when left them in the soft, mellow twilight
she was cuddled up under his protection like
fascinated bird under the coil Of serpent
A gentleman, who has a daughter Is years
old, said: "Well, if thought my daughter
would act like that, I should want 30 shoot
myself" Both these girls were well dressed
and looked as if they might be the children
of well to do parents. What are the girls
doinga
Tho streets in all our great cities are filed
with girls from Il to IL who are ready and
willing to flirt and make the acquaintance Of
any tolerably good looking and well dressed
stranger. So anywhere, in street cars, on
trains and steamers in parks and ON avenues,
in New York or Chicago, you can witness
any number Of such scenes as 1 have de-
scribed. At the hours when shops close and
business men are walking to their homes this
parade is most noticeable have a friend,
q young man who walks every night from
his office to his rooms, q distance Of many
blocks. He tells me that every night pretty,
well dressed girls, not disreputable women,
but daughters of eminently respectable
able people, throng this great thoroughfare
to make smash" that they often accost
him-even young girls with short skirts land
hair hanging in braids, and by look and word
invite his society. Nor Is this an exceptional
case i otten bear of and am witness to
these remarkable exhibitions This is what
the girls are doing. Now what are the
mothers doingi Well, many of them are abb
sorbed in their houses, looking after this,
arguing about the width Of a pillow case
hem, or whether hot or cold starch will pro-
duce the most respondent results Some Of
them are wrapped up IN church work, at
tending church lectures or making flannel
shirts for the heathen, or looking after me
church sociable, or carpeting the minister's
study, or teaching Sunday school, or Oh,
mockery leading mothers" meeting. The
mothers are lost in theories, while the daugh-
tiers are learning frivotty or something
worse.
70 the girls who do this sort Of thing, pick
up a chance acquaintance here and there,
listen to the cheap compliments Of fellow
travellers, railway conductors and al the
other spiders that are on the watch for fool
ish flies, will simply say: "You are run
ming tremendous hazard You are but the
idle amusement Of an idle hour for these
men. Don't fiatter yourselves that you will
find respectful sweetheart or loving
husband among these men, who viii ap-
proach you in this bold way. Men do not
care to be sought, they prefer to seek.
Your nane will be banded about from
travelling man to travelling man, from one
railway conductor to another. In their vo-
cabulary you will simply be my last NASH
an offensive description Of yourself, gar
nished with winks and innuendoes, viii pass
from mouth to mouth, and while at heart
you may be perfectly innocent, none Of these
men will believe you to ba'
To the mothers would say pretty sharply,
why in the name OF common sense don't
you let your temperance lectures and your
table cloths, your jelly and your heashens
flannel shirts. your covenant meetings and
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