Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-05-03

hensible system of street mashlng, but
certain it is that ladies' while viking 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 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.
Il believe, said she, that this city has
its full share of good and dignitied men
and women. but l also know that there
are thousands of women who influence
badly tho habits of the street. AS our
careless mon go out they find at every
turn some woman who encourages them
to be insulting. The hght-welghts
among them gradually grow to consider
tho entire female sex from one point of
view, and end by being impudcnt to any
woman that at all attracts their fancies.
And that is why You see men side up
alongside of pretty girl when she stops
TO look in at shop window, or crowd
unnecessarily close to her in n street car.
She may despise tbeir advances, but she
is compelled to suffer an inflictlon 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
the best feminine preference. certainly
do blame my own sex for the increase OF
masculine brutality. Thee will surely
be wholly admirable men in city like
New York, but beastlness must have
something to feed upon, and can do no
more than exist in a passive state IT 1t
finds no means of sustcnance.
| 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
h fred girl, n per. ect beauty, and hee
features were as delicate and high bred
as those of an ideal princess As she
moved graudly along, man with black,
ugly eyes, a short, pointed beard, and an
air of ineXproSsible 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 akable manner of the professional
masher. The lovely girl was an honor to
her sex at that moment. She held her
head at the same ang e as before, gazed
proudly straight ahead, and never gave
the slightest sign that the stlring brute
was in the world Within q 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 thor own
pride as that fair girl, street masbing
would be a starvation employment in very
shot order.
A beau took letter from his pocket
in order to read something from it to a
fair cousin who sat by his side.
All! she mailed you a kiss, the girl
remarked.
Not that know of" was the fellows
reply.
crinlled place, down at the corner of the
sheet, such as damp spot might have
left. Haven't you learned the latest
sentimental thing? A girl presses the
paper to her lips, leaving mark like
that, and so incloscs kiss without writ
ing word Of confession. That's whit
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
is ever quick to beat nature.
JENNIE DEAN