Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-03-29

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w AES without an attend
" MA ant. do not know
E III whether the adj
W. vi vent of so many
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~ has brought about
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hensible system of street masking, but
stain 1t IS that ladies while walking are
Low 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 th1t
those arrested have all been foreigners.
A very shrewd girl was disposed to rate
her own sex for the increase OF the petty
deprayity.
Il believe, said she, that this city has
its full share of good and dlgnlfled men
and women, but | also know that there
are thousands of women who influence
badly the habits of the street AS our
careless men go out they find at every
turn some woman who encourages them
to be insulting. The llght-Wel8hts
among them gradually grow TO consider
the entire female sex from one point OF
view, and end by being impudent to any
woman that at all attracts their fancles.
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alongside of a pretty girl when she stops
TO look in at shop window, or crowd
unne essarily close to her in street car,
She NAV despise their advances. but she
is compelled to suffer an infection reared
bv 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. | certainly
do blame my own sex for the increase Of
masculine brutality. The Q will surely
! be wholly admirable men In city like
New York, but beastliness must have
fomething to feed upon, and can do no
more than exist in passive state II 1t
finds no me ans of sustenance.
found considerable trath in these
words when next day my attention was
attracted to truly Royal example of the
female sex walking alone on Fifth ave-
nup. She was a young, tall, golden
ired girl, a per ect beauty, and her
featu es were as delicate and high bred
as those of an ideal princess. AS she
| moved graudly along man with black,
ugly eyes, short, pointed beard, and an
air Of inexpre> sible conceit came up
swiftly from behind and passed her As
he did so he deliberately turned ano
stared at her face, for an instant merely
but protraetedly and insOlently, IN the
uumist akable manner of the professional
mashe The lovely girl was an honor tC
her sex at that moment. She held mel
head at the same angle as before, gazec
proudly straight ahead, and never gave
the slightest sign that the staring brute
was in the world. Within half minute
the masher dropped behind and gave III
bhe game. 1t was easy to see then that /
all Young women were as safe in their owl
bride as that fair girl, street mashin|
ould be a starvation empl Oyment IN yer.
sho order.
beau took letter from his pocket
in order to read something from it to
fair cousin who sat by his side.
All! she mailed yOu kiss, the cir
remarked
Not that know Of, was the fellow
reply.
orinllled place, down at the corner of tn
sheet, such as damp spot might hav
left. Haven't you learned the lates
sentimental thing? A girl presses tn
paper to her lips leaving a mark Xix
that. and so incloses kiss without writ
ing a word of confession. That's who
Jennie did, and you, goose that you are
) never noticed it.
3 The next thing the statiOners turn OF
| may be ready kissed paper, with fair
tint of red lips and delicious scent {
fragrant breath pertaining thereto. A
-, is ever quick to beat nature
JENNIE DEAN.