Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-25

-zz=Z-- the present repre-
hensible system OF street meshing, but
certain it is that ladies while walking are
now. exposed to more rudeness than ever
before. Several Washers have been COM
planned Of to the police lately, and few
arrests have been made. 1t is a fact that
those arrested have all been foreigners.
A very shrewd girl was disposed to rate
her own sex for the increase of the petty
depraVIty.
4 believe. said she. "that this city has
its full share Of good and dignihed men
and women but I also know that there
are thousands of women who influence
badly the habits of the street. AS our
careless men 60 out they find at every
turn some woman who encourages them
to be insulting. The ight-weights
among them gradually grow to consider
| the entire female sex from one point of
view, and end by being lmpuGent to any
woman that at all attracts their fancles.
And that is why you see men side up
alongside of a pretty girl when she stops
to look in at a shop window, or crowd
unnecessarily close to her in q street car.
She may despise their advances, but she
is compelled to suffer an infiictiOn reared
by her own sex. Those insulting men
have on more than one occasion been
met with encouragement and, not being
philosophers, have taken the contemplate
smiles of unworthy women as signs Of
the best feminine preference. 1 certainly
do blame my own sex for the increase of
masculine brutality. There viii surely
be wholly admirable men in a city like
New York, but beastliness must have
/ something to feed upon, and can do no
more than exist IN passive state If 1t
finds no means Of sustenance."
found considerable truth in these
words when next day my attention was
attracted to truly royal example of the
/ female sex walking alone on Fifth ave-
nue.. She was young, tall, golden
/ haired girl, a perfect beauty, and her
features were as delicate and hIgh-bred
as those of an ideal princess. As she
/ moved grandly along, man with black,
| ugly eyes, q short, pointed beard, and an
/ air Of lnexpresslble cOnceit, came up
/ swiftly from behind and passed her. AS
/ he did so he deliberately turned and
stared at her face, for an instant merely
/ but protractedly and insolently, in the
/ unmist kabIe manner of the professional
masher. The lovely girl was an honor to
her sex at that moment. She held her
/ head at the same angle as before, gazed
! proudly straight ahead, and never gave
/ the slightest sign that the staring brute
was in the world. Within a half minute
the masher dropped behind and gave up
! the game. 1t was easy to see then that if
! all young women were as safe in their own
/ pride as that fair girl, street MASKING
/ would be starvation employment IN very
! short order.
A beau took letter from his pocket
in order to read something from it to q
fair cousin who sat by his side.
"Ahi she mailed you kiss, the girl
remarked.
Not that I know of, was the fellows
/ reply.
look there" and she d ointed to
/ crinkled place, down at the corner of the
sheet, such as a damp spot might have
left. Haven't you learned the latest
sentimental thing? A girl presses the
paper to her lips, leaving a mark like
That, and so incIoses a kiss without writ
ing a word of confession. That's what
Jennie did. and you, goose that you are.
never noticed it. "
The next thing the stationers turn out
may be ready kissed paper, with faint
tint of red lips and delicious scent of
fragrant breath pertaining thereto Art
S ever quick to beat nature.
JENNIE DEAN.