The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-22
TIE EraIos or ~. ozING.

To twoze or not to twoze that is the ques-
ton of the hour. The verb twoza will not
be found in Webster or Worcester, though
it may figure in the Century Dictionary
when that publication reaches the letter r.
Meanwhile it may be explained that twoz-
ing means the consorting together Of a
young man and maid, or, in vulgar par
lance, flirting. When a gentleman walks off
with his best girl TO some shady spot in the
woods, or TO lonely sand-hill on the sea-
beach, or to a secluded bay-window in a
drawing-room. the couple are said to twoze
The diversion is regarded in different lights
according to the standpoint of the observer
1t is popular with boys and girls, but is not
generally approved by mammas, and is Sc
yersly pretended by old bachelors and
cIustv fathers.
From time immemorial there has been in
the code Of the city schools an unwritten
law against twozing. Boys have been for
hidden to escort girls to and from school,
For years the law has slumbered in innocuous
desuetude; but lately a school principal,
boiling over with zeal for the fame OF his
girl pupils, has revived it, and put it in force
with such yigor that several pupils have been
suspended for violating it. This has reused
flirtatiOns were nipped in the bud, and they
have indted a round-robin calling for the
removal Of the offending teacher. The boys
say that if they are not allowed to twoze
they " i'll leave school and throw themselves
and their ignorance upon the merces of a
tender-hearted and presumably sympathetic
world.
We suspect that this is a question on
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say. Boys and girls are sent to school, not
to find partners for life. but TO learn history
geography. mathematics and other things
which will be useful to them when they
grow up. That boys of 20 and girls OF 16
should begin TO feel, in the words of Scrip
ture, that it is not good for man 10 be alone
IS natural enough; but the sentence must
not be construed so strictly as TO condemn a
girl who walks home from school without an
escort The association of the sexes is good
for both. Each teaches the other something
which cannot be learned from books. But
there are proper times and places for boys
and girls to meet, and the streets, before or
after school hours, are not such times or
places. The great bulk of the male pupils
Of the city schools are well conducted
youths but some of them are not, and girls
going to or returning from school should be
protected from having company thrust on
them which they dislike but do not care to
repel for fear of unpleasantness. Children
of 10 and 10 are not always sufficiently ac-
quainted with the world to be able to choose
their friends. And it is much easier to stop
an acquaintance at the start than to break
1t off after it has been cemented by regular
daily walks to and from school.
The strongest objection that was ever
urged against the coeducation of the sexes
was that attachments would inevitably
spring up between young men and young
women which would not, in a majority of
cases, be likely to conduce to the happiness
OF either. Neither is able at the time of
lie when they are completing their ednca-
ton to choose judciously partner for life.
Men and women. when they mature, almost
invariably grow Indifferent, and sometimes