The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-01
Red Haired Girls and White
HnrSaS


The authenticated maidens of New
Castle, Del, have formed an anti-Whit
Horse Society, and have started a crusade
against the driving of white horses il
that town. 1t is known that their organ
ization has for it's object the exclusion o
all white horses from New Castle, but it,
inner workings and the exact system o.
it's procedure remain a mystery to the
towns-people. It appears that the young
ladies who compose this society have beer
particularly successful in their initial eff
forts to rid the town of those ''Dasty,
dirty looking white horses,' as they in
dignantly term them.
About year ago carter named Ivory
A. Fols, who is more popularity known
| among his fellow-townsmen as bud, y
purchased two milk-white horses in Will
mington. Fols never for moment real.
lied what would be the exact result of
his purchase, and still less thought how
repugnant they would prove to the ruddy-
haired young ladies of New Castle; but
he is now painfully aware of his mistake,
and several days ago he sent his horses to
Craze on the meadow stretches near New
Castle until he could find some one who
will take them off his hands.
If there is any one particular feature
for which New Castle is noted it is the
number of red haired girls who live there.
Whether this vermillion color is caused
by the reflection from the Jersey sands
across the river or from the presence of
the great number of straw berries nearby
is not clearly known, but it is certain
that it is not inherited from their parents
for the latter, as rule, have black hair.
At any rate the girls are rich in their
flowing red tresses, aud that is the cause
of Carter Fols being in the dumps at the
present time.
Immediately after purchasing them
Fols put his white steeds on the streets
to work. Then began the fun. Wher-
ever the milk-white steeds were there
was sure to be red-haired lass. The
wags Immediately set up a howl and amid
yells of white horse and red hair" Fols
and the unfortunate auburn haired young
lady were made objects of ridicule. There
were remonstrances against this raillery,
but it was no use; the yell was contagious
and not even the police authorities could
stop it. Should Fols happen to enter his
house and leave his horses and wagon
they were sure to be tied to a tree or
lamp post and held there until some red
haired girl came along. OF late the jokers
have several times visited Fols' house at
night and serenaded him with songs
about his white steeds and the red haired
girls.
This raillery grew so unbearable to the
lasses that about three weeks ago the
anti. White Horse Society was formed.
Among its members, it is said, are Miss
Josie Fitzgerald, Miss Mary Bacon, Miss
Ogers, Miss Mamie Jester, Miss Carrie
Jester, Miss Julia Conner, Miss Kate
Mahoney, Miss X. McCue, Miss Carrie
McCue, Miss Mary Duffy, Miss Mont
gomery and Others, all of whom have
been made the butt of much fun. They
resolved to start their crusade at once,
and few days ago Fols was unexpect-
eddy ordered by the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals either to
sell his white horses or put them out on
the meadows to pasture for long time.
1t was claimed that he did not feed them
enough aud worked them too hard.
The sorrowful carter saw through it all
and had nothing else to do but to comply.
On Monday last he went to Wilmington
and bought another horse, but it was not
white in color. The red-haired girls it is
said, have their eyes now on eight other
horses of the town, and from present APP
pearances they will soon be compelled to
go. Phila. Record.