Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-14
WASHERS" PASTIME,.
A TEST FOR THE SELF POSSESSION
OF TlMiD FEMlNlNiTY.

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A City Club Theory Concerning a Ger
tain Facial Phenomeuon--An Impoiits
Experiment for Ladies and Their Es-
corts to Look Out For.
The question whether every woman Ii
obliged to act in certain and peculiar way
if she is looked at exercises many men in
town. Who originated the idea of putting
the problem TO n test is too uncertain to make |
it worth while to name any one of those who
claim the authorship The most likely story
about it is that the idea originated in the
brain of well known politician, and was
first broached in the New Amsterdam club.
The new discovery is quite as much matter
of contemporaneous human interest as the |
red haired girl and white horse miracle, but |
affects the fair sex alone 1t is embodied in |
the question: why do women moisten their
lips when they are looked att" The subject |
is usually brought forward in the shape of
positive declaration some men going so far |
as TO declare that they and their friends have |
been experimenting for over a year upon the |
unconscious ladies Of the city, and that the |
test never fails.
An you have to do saws one of these, 'is
to sit opposite lady in car or bus and
look at heI intcntly without rudeneSs, and as
sure as you do So, out win come her tongue
aud she will moisten both her lips. She
must bo some one YOU are not acquainted
with and when she catches you looking at
her it had better be with slight expression
ct interest or curiosity. Gazing with adj
D.4. Il NO Sltra
If 1t is done at all badly she resents it and
will simply look away but If you seem to be
curious about her, as if YOU were studying
something about her hair or eyes or hat, or
us if you were trying to see who she was
like, she will be positively certain to perform
THIS queer operation
Apparently thousands in ever widening
circles, who have heard positive statements
OF this sort are devoted to investigating the
phenomenon They pursue the subject in
the streets, office elevators, hotel parlors,
churches, and wherever ladies' are 10 be
found. Those who have yielded to the infiu-
ence of the queer study declare it to be very
fascinating They are mainly young men
They say it is like form of hunting or fly
fishing. 4 man singles out n lady OF attract
i've face and figure, dressed to the supreme
notch If fashion, a,I .,-iglau+I,- o,,;o,-;,,c,
comn,ete satisfartion vrirb hsrso,f ~ she
arrane7es her ,irapar, apd sssts bsrs..If in a
horse car
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across the car bod mod. ar, his Mind r., bora
| her to his Will, and Obll-e her TO perform an
undlgmIicd act while she sat there she would
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