Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-08-10

Beng delayed for several hours in an oub
of-the-way town Oh the following day, |
watched the gradual unfolding of another
sudden attachment Daisy the second was
also travelling alone She was pretty girl,
but had look of brazen, full bloom coquetry
In her eyes. A man who certainly looked
old enough to know better, a man with
wrinkled face and blase eyes, made her ac-
quaintance. He was devotion itself He sat
by her and stared into her pretty, peachy
face with vicious gaze, and complimented
her in the most bold and forid fashion, and
when left them in the soft, mellow twilight
Bhe was cuddled up under his protection like
fascinated bird under the coil of a serpent
A gentleman, who has daughter IS years
old, said: "Well, if thought my daughter
would act like that, l 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
doinga
The streets in all our great cities are filled
with girls from II 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
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 a friend,
q young man who walks every night from
his office to his rooms, a 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 ''mash;" that they often accosu
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. | often hear of and am witness to
these remarkable exhibitions. This is what
the girls are doing. Now what are the
mothers doinga Well, many of them are abb
sorbed in their houses, looking after this
arguing about the width of a pillow casa
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 heather, or looking after the
church sociable, or carpeting the minister's
study, or teaching Sunday school, or Oh,
mockery leading ''mother's" meeting The
mothers are lost in theories, while the daugh-
tiers are learning frivolity or something
worse.
To the girls who do this sort of thing, picA
up chance acquaintance here and there,
listen to the cheap compliments of fellow
travellers, railway conductors and all tho
other spiders that are on the watch for fool-
ish flies, will simply say: "You are run.
ming tremendous hazard. You are but thd
idle amusement of an idle hour for these
men, Don't fatter yourselves that you will
find a respectful sweetheart or loving
husband among these men, who will ap3
proach you in this bold way. Men do not
care to be sought, they prefer to seek.
Your name will be banded about from
travelling man to travelling man, from ona
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 pass
from mouth to mouth, and while at heart
you may be perfectly innocent, none of thess
men will believe you to be-"
To the mothers would say pretty sharply,
"Why lin the name of common sense don't
you let your temperance lectures and your
table cloths, your jelly and your heathen's
flannel shirts, your covenant meetings and
the flies go, and look after your daughter q
little bettera Why do you allow them ca
travel alone-to make a State street prome-
made a daily habita And these Sunday after.
noon strolls in the parks Do you. realizs
what they meang"-Edith Sessions aupper in
Chicago Herald.