Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-12-15
WASHERS PASTIME.
q TEST FOR THE SELF POSSESSION
 OF Tl8IO FEMINlNlTY.

OF TlalO FEMlNlNlTY.
 A City Club Theory Concerning a Ger
 tain Facial PhenomenOn-An ImpoIits
 Experiment for Ladies and Their Es-
 eorts to Look Out For.
 Ths question whether every woman Is obG -si bo as't lL a cefJaSn and peculiar way 1T -lv i- .nnsei at exercises many men in t0v' ~ ho 'r.-lnated tue idea Cf putting tbr pr1L4v.T Go Jest ls too uncertain to make it north v -.:ie ta name any one of Jhoss w1o c.aim tne authorship. Tue muSt likely s-o-y about It IS that IEe ida originated Jl the Lran of a well Suown politician. and was trst hr1achei in ths New Amsterdam club. Tue new discovery Is quite as much matter of cOntemporaneJus human interest Gs the red hAIred sirl and white horse miracle, but affects the far sax alone. lt Is embodied in the question: "N ny do women moisten their lips when they are looked aty The subject is usually brought forward in the shape of positive declaration. some men going so far as to declare slat--hcy and their friends have Uscn experimenting for over year upon the unconscious Iadis. of the city, and that the test never fails
 | Al you have to do" says one of these, "is to sit opposite lady in car or a bus and l lock at her intently without rudeness and Ga ' sure aS you do SO, out will come her tongue and she will moisten both her lips Shs must be some one you are not acquainted | with and when she catches you looking ai | Der it had better be with a slight expression cf interest or curiosity. Gazing with ad | EIiratiOn upon her Is not a sure way, because | ,f It Is done at all badly sue resents it and | will simply look away; but if you seem tO 10 curious about her, as if you were studying something about her hair or eyes or hat, o- as if you were trying to see who she waS hEe. 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 to be found. Those who have yielded to the in1u- ence of the queer study declare 1t to be very fascinating. They are mainly young men They say it is like form of hunting or hy fishing. A man singles out lady ot attract i've face and figure, dressed to the supreme | notch of fashion and evidently enjoying complete satisfaction with herself as sue srranges her drapery and seats herself in a horse car If any one were to tell her that the man across the car had made up his mind to bend ser to his will. and obiige her to perform sn uldigniiied act while she sat there, she would as.ii the bare suggestion as preposterUus. And yet ten tO one, she would project her tongue, | snd roll her lips inward tO moisten them on It's surface as soon as she looked over Co the | nr fse giance-at least so these iInpolite experiment. CTS assert
 But she would know nothing about it, and would get out her pocketbOok. find what change she needed for the conductor, and once again settle herself ss ladies and birds are accustomed to do, all oblivious of the fact 1 that the gaze of the mn opposite Is concen- | trated upon her face with a look of quick, ! curious interest It will not be many minutes | before she does perceive thls by reason of l that subtle influence that Is said Co enable us l Co awaken men and women from deep | sleep by fixing our eyes upon them. Then l sbe wlll look up and meet the mans gaze tt | will startle her, end. 1T the rule be true. she l ~iii indulge m the peculiar performance ac | cretited To her sex-
 This acton of the lips and tongue is not | mysterious lt Is merely one of a score of | ~svs in which human Leings, especially the l more self cOHscIuus ones among Us. testify Co lsi -asI Jar. embarrassment and make an i1 | ---cnaaical movement Iu raassert ins uur ss ,'>->-,slOn An equally f1ruIis.T 1ui more IJticeau.e unconscious trick of tlt stme Eind Is that which EurJpsau ps,.s1li | nicI and women have and orIug t1 Jhl, country with thenn-n movement of the bacs ui the band across the mouth Another action Of the sort Is the biting Of the undsI up
 The reports that some have made Of their experiences divide the ladies into cl1sseS Some men positively assert that no matter who she may be, any woman will wet her liue If she Is taken of her guard by stranger Others say that II man looks at a lady m certain way. it does not matter whether she Is n friend, a relative, or even a wife, she will follow this queer rule. Still others say that high bred, proud women cannot be relied on Once in a while one of these naughty ladies will be taken by surprise and mako the movement, they say, and then again man may spend half day in the Fourth aven,!s cars above Thirty fourth street, and never sucgecd in producing the action once. One deep student makes closer division, and says that it Is only the married women among the fashionable of the sex who rg-Jst the impulse, but thRt all single ladies, young 1 and old, DO matter how proud or self pos sessed, succumb tO the novel infuence
 It is only far Co say that some men declare as positively against the new craze as any do for it They say that there is nothing in it. that no woman ever under any circuulScaucss performs the alleged operation There are not enough of these skeptIcs Co mlEe any headwsy aGsinst the pastime. They are met .aE-. Al MN H | bald or stupid or uninteresting Co women, and in other ways are made O. regret that they have tried Co opfus- the uev craze There is another class ut men, still fewer in numbers, who grow angry, and insist Una; the whole idea is gotten up as a practical joke. These arc the fellows who know go httle of art and illusion as Go get into trouble whenever they try Co experiment by ,taril= 90 hard and so ofcnsively at the ladies that tEsre s "a constant danger of their being called to account by the other gentlemen who happen Co be present.
 There Is great fun in watching a clever young fellow at iL He selerts his victim without seeming to look at her lie takes seat opposite her. opens newspaper, and uretcuds Co read it Suddenly, pernaps, ts drous it and with an expression Of surprised apd lively interest fastens bis gaze on the roots of the lady's hair above her brow or oH her eyes cT her neck pin She has been look fng tn another direction, but seeing the move ment of the paper. turns and meets the fCis unexpected gaze os tho man Then tue Ia stant has arrived II the eT1crJmenrers speak truly, she IS certain Co fJiI prey 10 his design She is most likely to pruiect ths dainty tIpof her cora! tongue and curl it uP and down over both l!ps But if sas f,.iis -c
 | curves her under lip outward aui u-rTi-1 over the other one, the t0rueutor Ol her s-A will know that he has sucCce,iei. for C.Ier cut women have several different Tars 1f behaving at such iuuctures Some r1rasr the.r mouths, draw Iu tL-ir lips, -E. r.- the Iu Ter iIp uv-g Ca. I-rer one. .-- 'l- -. g1e>, a. tEe club men put i,--''s" 4-ss S4a
 The '0untry is Safe.
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