The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-07-18
WHERE ARE THE GIRLS?
FoLLIEs OF THE DAY AS ILLUSTRAT-
ED By CONDUCT IN PUBLIC.

FOLLIES OF THE DAY AS 1LLUSTRAT-
ED By CONDUCT IN PUBLIC.
for Careless Mothers to Reao-
The Danger OF Flirtation-Comment OF
the wise-Spiders on the Watch Tor
Foolish Flies.
(From Sermon by DR.. Talmage)
In Pullman sleeper the other night
I watched an affecting parting between
9 young woman and her sweetheart.
She was bouncing maiden of the Daisy
Miller type-he an insignificant looking
young dude with caterpillar colored
fuzz on his upper lip and 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 repeatedly, and she wept and sobbed
into her freshly ironed handkerchief.
The eyes Of every one In the car were
upon them, and cynical and sco6ng re-
marks 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 conductor made his first
appearance with great brilliancy and
eclat. How it happened I cannot tell,
for my thoughts we're busy elsewhere,
but after little I raised my eyes and
10! l..Cholly" was forgotten. Daisy s
tears were dried and she was conducting,
sccording to the best knowledge and
most authentic rules of the game, sue
cessful Irritation with the young con-
ductor. She giggled, she made eyes,
she frowned prettily, she wss so charm
inely helpless about the window, she
must have water and oranges, and the
dickens knows what, and the railway
aedgeing was at her beck and call.
Next morning the 6irtation made per-
cepsible progress. Daisy went TO break
fast with gilt buttons and blue clothes,
and what there was inside of them. She
donned her ulster and the big daring
Gainsborough and went out and rode
upon the platform ssto look at the
scenery" which consisted mainly Of fat
meadows, freshly plowed, end was &C
cordingly Of SURPRISING beauty. She
talked at the top Of her lungs, and In
formed the other passengers that now
she guessed she'd better wash her hands,
and anon she guessed she'd have a pill
low. This being brought, she made
great use Of it for the further subiuga-
tion Of the unhappy conductor, for,
taking il, she posed upon it such efec-
tive attitudes as to win glances of sp-
provsl and speeches of admiration from
the infatuated, hopelessly besotted
youth. In fact, for several hundred
miles Daisy formed the staple amuse-
ment for car full of passengers.
Being delayed for several hours in an
out-of-the-wsy town On the following
day, watched the gradual unfolding OF
smother sudden attachment. Daisy the
second was also travelling alone. She
was 8 pretty girl, but had look OF
b-azen, full bloom coquetry in her eyes.
A man who certainly looked old enough
to know better, q man with wrinkled
iace and blsse eyes, made her acquaint-
ance. He was devotion itself. He sat
by her and stared into her pretty,
peschy face with vicious gaze, and
compiimented her in the most bold and
ford fashion, and when left them IN
the soft, mellow twilight she was cud.
died up under his protection Ike 9
fascinated bird under the coil Of ser
peat
A gentleman, who has daughter Il
years old, said: ssWell, if thought my
dsnghter would act like that, I shoul5
wsat TO shoot myself" Both these girls
were well dressed and looked IS If they
might be the children of well-to-do
parents. What are the girls doing?
The streets in al our great cities are
6lled with girls from 12 to Is who are
ready sad wiling to dirt and make the
acquaintance Of any tolerably good
looking and vel dressed stranger. So
anywhere, In street cars, on trains and
steamers, IN parks and on avenues, in
NSw York OF Chicago, you can witness
anysnumbee Of such scenes IS I have
dseerSbed. At the hours when shops
clcee and business men are walking to
their homes this parade is most notice
sbIe. 7 have a friend, young man
WHO walks every night from his Office to
higrooms, distance Of many blocks,
Ess tells me that every night pretty,
web dressed girls, not direputable wo-
1nan, but daughters of enninently re-
spectacle people, throng this great
Snpsougnfare to make q 'smssh," and
they often accost him-eyen young girls
With. short skirts snd hair hanging in
bsaSds, and by look and word invite his
soesssy. Nor is this an exceptional case.
7 often hear OF and am witness to these
ransrksble exhibitions. This is what
the girls are doing now what are the
mothers doing? Well, many of them
ere absorbed in their houses, looking
altar this, arguing about the width of 8
pillow cssse hem, or whether hot or cold
ssa.ch viii produce the most resplendent
results. Some OF them are wrapped up
IN church work, attending church lec-
sures or making flannel shirts for the
hes&hen, or looking after the church
socisble, or csrpeting the minister's
ssudy, or tesching Sunday school, or
oh, mockery! leading q "mother's"
meeting. The mothers are lost in
theories, while the daughters are learn
ing frivoaity or something worse.
!. 10 the girls who do this sort of thing,
pick up o chance acquaintance here and