The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-03-30
THREE LITTLE MAIDS.
Minnie, Louisa and Alice
Go to a Razzle-Dazzle
Ball and Drink
Wine.
THEY GOT IN AND CAUGHT ON.
A Politician, a Horse Owner, a
Schuetzen officer, and Allies
Steady Company, Jack,
We're There, Too.
THEY GOT IN AND CAUGHT ON.


In Hoboken it is not considered a
breach Of etiquette for young German
girls to drink beer in public At least a
third of the girls Of this nationality over
eighteen years OF age will order beer at a
social gathering with NONCOMPLIANCE para
lying to temperance advocate.
Astonishing as this may seem to some,
it is nevertheless true, and the proprietors
of the different halls say that at some Of
the big German masquerade balls in the
city almost every girl present drank beer.
But they possess one quality which some
Of the sterner sex would do well TO emu
late, and that is moderation.
A German girl knows when she has
enough. OF course the capacity OF some
Of the young women is larger than others.
Some Of them have been known to sit at
q table in concert garden or hall and
drink as much beer as the men.
The men have been known to leave the
table intoxicated while the Young women
arose as 1t they had been drinking coffee.
These young women are experienced
drinkers and are guaranteed TO 'sbreak"
any luckiess young fellow who attempts
the contract OF getting them intoxicated
The Irish-American girls who have any
desire to drink do not ike beer They
prefer the mllder wines, but as a rule are
very much afraid to drink anything in
toxicating at gathering where they are
known.
In the eye of the Irish and Irish-Am eri-
cans, girl who drinks is viewed with
suspicion. She is talked about. II &C a
ball She SO far forgets herself as to drink
q glass or two OF wine or any other lntoxi-
eating drink, the next morning it Is pre-
claimed to the world.
She hears on the ferryboat going to
work that she was exceedingly merry the
night before. When she reaches the
shop the girls get In a corner and stare at
her. She is the recipient OF cool gIances
all day long, and thus she is tortured for
an act which would be considered nothing
in German society.
The German girl can drink as much
beer, sherry wine, Rhine wine, or what
ever she may choose TO drink, and as long
priety nothing is said. But the Irish
American girl Let her partake of one
glass of any liquor and she is Instantly
surrounded by suspicion in the eyes Of
her sex. She is guilty of an unpardon-
able breach Of etiquette and her position
thereafter Is exceedingly Notifying.
THE TYPICAL BALL GIRL.
But there are girls OF both natiOnaiities
in Hoboken who care not what people say
or think.
They are good girls. They win go to a
ball. drink what they hike, have a good
time, and go to work in the morning as
independent as a queen. On "Wednesday
pair TO any of the many concert gardens,
enjoy the concert and sip their beer.
On Sunday night they do not go to
church, but are willing to go TO any of
the resorts on the Heights and listen to
good music; but their chief delight is to
attend a ball. They fairly revel in the
dance and the razzle-dazzle time which
generally accompanies it.
Three OF this class of young girls--we
will call them Minnie, Alice and Louisa
attended one of the mauy masquerade
balls in Hopoken one night last week
They reached the hall about eleven
O'Clock. They were dressed very stylish
lY and We're exceedingly handsome
young women, but they had no money
with which to enter the hall. This did
not bother them. Calling little fellow
one SIDE Minnie, the eldest girl, said:
Boy, you run up stairs and tell Mr.. -,
the policeman, that the girls who were
here last Wednesday night are down
stairs and would like to get in.n
In few minutes the policeman came
down. He introduced the girls to the
doorkeeper as his sisters. The doorkeeper
passed them in. Their hats and cloaks
DE checked A couple of dudes standing
against the wall are not slow to perceive
what is going on.
'sHello' says one of them. "There
goes three 'beaters.' / saw them down
to a bali in Jersey City one night last
week.
"What do you say if we connect with
them?n asks the other.
Tut tut, boy, they are good time girls.
They are out for jays who viii buy for
them all night. and then just when the
jays begin to think they own the girls,
they suddenly give them the shake.
Milky; none Of that in mine.n
In the meanwhile the band struck up
dizzy waltz. Minnie and Louisa started
to dance together. The floor was crowded
with gay masqueraders. As the girls
reached the lower end of the hall two
tough looking young men started
to separate them. Minnie froze
one of them with look
and with a pout of her pretty lips, said
''No, we prefer to dance together" The
two youths walked away disappointed,
one Of them remarking:-"l told you they
would not break. They are out for big
game tonight
HOW THEY SECURED PARTNERS.
The girls continued in the giddy whirl
around the room. When they reached
the back part again the policeman who
DrOugnt Lncm IN DeckOnS 20 them. Iney
immediately part aud go to meet him.
The policeman is accompanied by two
portly gentlemen.
One of them is a welI-kDown politician
and the other a horse-owner Introduce
tons are next in order and then the
party repairs TO the drinking room. They
are asked what they will drink To be
agreeable they will drink wine and bot
tie is ordered and soon emptied, the girls
drinking their share. Another dance
strikes up and the politician stated that
he had not danced in ten years, but ne
thought he would try and dance with
Louisa Louisa was willing and the
couple left, Louisa saying that she would
return right away.
They returned before the music had
ceased. Louisa's partner might have been
q splendid dancer when he was young
man but he had evidently forgotten all
about 1t of later years. The dance was a
military schottischeand the attempt to do
it justice by the politician was lament
able failure. Another bottle Of wine was
ordered.
ALICE Is NOT so FORTUNATE.
In the meanwhile what had become of
Aliceg When she was left by her two
friends she was accosted by q Young Ger
man with a Scheutzen uniform and asked
to dance. She agreed. After the dance
she met another one OF hef companions
and stopped to speak to her When she
had her say, the young German invited
Alice's friend to drink, and the trio left
for the .drinkifsR ROOM AS fate
would have IS their table was