Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-07
WHERE ARE TIE GIRLS?
FOLLiee Ce IRE DAY AS ILLUS TRtTsc ev CONDUCT IN PUBLIC.

fOllI6S Gr TIE NAY 40 ILLUS
 TRtTsc ev CONDUCT IN PUBLIC.
 The Danger. of Flirtation--Comment of ehe Wise ~Spi.ler> on the Watch for
 Fooiish Flies - In a Pullman sleeper the other night 1 watched an affecting parting between young woman and her sweetheart. She was a bouncing maiden of the Daisy Miller type -he an insignificant looking young dude with caterpillar colored fuzz on his upper lip and a hat two or three sizes too small for his small head The agony of parting almost overcame them Their sweet sorrow was long drawn out Their lips clung together in many long kisses, while he whispered airy nothings in her ear and embraced her re- peatedly, and she wept and sobbed into her freshly Toned handkerchief The eyes of every one in the car were upon them, and cynical and scoffing 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 orilliancy and eclat How it happened can
  where, but after little raised my eyes and toi ''Cholly' was forgotten Daisy's tears were drled and she was conducting, accord ing to the best know ledge and most autheu- tic rules ot the game, successful Irritation with the young conductor She giggied, she made eyes, she drowned prettily, she was so charmingly helpless about the window, she must have water and oranges and the dick ems knows what, and the railway fedgeling was at her beck and call Next morning the filtration mad, lerceptible 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 darine Galnsborough and went out and rode upon the platform ito look at the seen sryv" which consisted mainly of fiat mead sws, freshly plowed. and was accordingly of surpassing beauty She talked at the top of OCT 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 glances of approval aud speeches of admira tloD from the infatuated, hopetessly besotted youth. ln fact, for several hundred miles Daisy formed the staple amusement for car full ot passengers
 Being delayed for several hours in an out of-the-way town on the following day, l watched the gradual unfolding of another sudden attachment Daisy the second was also travelling alone, She was pretty girl. out had look of brazen, full bloom coquetry tp her eyes. A man who certainly looked old enough tc know better, man with wrinkled face and blase eyes, made her ac. He Ha cot by her and stared into her pretty, peachy face with a vicious gaze, and compimented ner in the most bold and forid fashion, and when 1 left them in the soft, mellow twilight she was cuddled up under big protection like ' a fascinated bird under the coil of serpent A gentleman whc has a daughter IS years old, said: "Well if 1 thought my daughter ! would act like that. 1 should want to 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 \ doingi
 The streets in all our great cities are filled ! with girls from l2 to Is who are ready and willing to fiirt 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
 
 \ scribed- At the hours when shops close and business men are walking to their homes this \ parade is most noticeable 1 have a friend ! young man who walks every night from \ his office to his rooms, distance of many | blocks. He tells me that every night pretty, ! well dressed girls, not disreputable women, ! but daughters of eminently respectable l able people, throng this great thoroughfare to make mash" that they often accost \ him-even young girls with short skirts sand hair hanging in braids, and by look and word ! invite his society. Nor is this an exceptional case 1 often hear of and am witness tc these remarkable exhibitions. This is wha, the girls are doing. Now what are the
 mothers doings We'll, many of them are ab l 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 resplendent results. Some oi l them are wrapped up in church work, at tending church lectures or making hanne ! shirts for the heathen, or looking after the l church sociable, or carpeting the minister. 1 study, or teaching Sunday school, or Oh mockery leading mothers" meeting Int
 mothers are lost in theories, while the daugh | ters are learning frivolity or something worse.
 ! To the girls who do this sort of thing picl l up chance acquaintance here and there
 listen to the cheap compliments of fellow | travellers, railway conductors and all tn,
 other spiders that are on the watch for fool
 ish flies, will simply say: You are run
 ming tremendous hazard You are but th.
 idle amusement of an idle hour for thes,
 men Don't flatter yourselves that you vii
 find a respectful sweetheart or loving
 husband among these men, who will ap | proach you in this bold way. Men do no
 care to be sought, they prefer to seek 1 Your name will be bandied about iron
 travelling man to travelling man, from on
 railway conductor to another. In their vo
 cabulary you will simply be my last mash;
 an offensive description of yourself, gar
 nished with winks and innuendoes, will pas 1 from mouth to mouth, and while at hear
 you may be perfectly innocent, none of thes
 men will believe you to be-"
 To the mothers would say pretty sharply
 'Why in the name of common sense don
 you let your temperance lectures and you
 table cloths, your jelly and your heathen'
 flannel shirts, your covenant meetings ans
 the flies go, and look after your daughter
 little betterf Why do you allow them t.
 travel alone-to make State street prone
 made daily habiti And these Sunday after
 noon strolls in the parks. Do you realiz vxhaf they mean p,-Edith SesSinns TY1ppar i,