Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-09-02
The Latest Attack on Nan.
LonisriHe Carrier-Jonrnal.


Things are coming to pretty pass in
New York. George Smith, ga fascina-
ting young man," has been abducted by
women, and the police are unable to find
either George or the bold Amozons who
kidnapped him. Such is the story that
the Herald tells. They may think in
New York that this is progress, and may
boastfully cite it as an instance of the re-
markable manner in which woman is
coming to the front and putting herself
on an equality with the ex.sterner sex,
but in the slang of the Eleventh ward it
is too much sugar for a cent
Why, what is to bee me of a man if
the example female New York sets should
be adopted Suppose he should be young
and handsome He is likely at any time
to be seized by some daring woman, chic
reformed, thrust into carriage and hur-
ried away, just as fair young damsels
were carried off in the times of Tom
Jones and Amelia and Roderick Ran
dom, excepting that the sexs are now re-
versed. A man will have no guarantee
of personal safety, unless he is old and
ugly. He will not dare to 90 down the
street alone, lest the owner of some fair
one heart smitten by his charms may tear
him from his home and friends. He will
be compelled to have policeman on
guard at his office door in order that he
may not be snatched from the very GEN.
ter of his clerks by female hands and
borne oil to some lonely castle, where he
will pine and mourn like Mariana in the
moated grange.
And how about the stranger in New
York State? Unsuspecting man that he
is, and unaccustomed to the iery and
impetuous nature of the women of New
York he will never know to what cruel
fate he is rushing. Our Kentuckians
visit there and many Of them we may
never see again. Their manly beauty and
winning ways will hurry them to their
doom, as the plot in a melodrama draws
on to its predestined end. Even now
there may be, most probably there are,
young men among us for whom fate is
preparing great catastrophe. Some
bright morning or some dark night they
will disappear like summer dream, to
be Imprisoned in eight by eight window
less apartments and fed on bread and wa
ter, until they consent to marry their bold
"abductress."
In these troublous times upon which
we have fallen it becomes likely youth
to keep a sharp eye in his head, and be-
ware of the attention Of the opposite sex.
If his partner at the ball squeezes his
hand a little bit, he must look to it,
Even then she may plotting to make
him her husband by force, and it will be
better for him to avoid her. Lawn par
ties in the country, picnics, boating ex-
cursions and such things should be
watched very carefully, as they afford
bold and designing women frequent OPP
portunities, and may see the last Of many
a promising young man.
We have great respect as well as
attachment for the feminine gender, but
we do not think that it should be encour-
aged into committing violence and tram
pling down the right Of the masculine
half of creation. Man must be protect
ed. Woman should be taught that the
appeal to force does not become the clos
ing decade of the Ninteenth century,
If necessary, the full majesty of the law
should be invoked to defend the remain
der of US from the fate that overlook
poor George Smith.