The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-14
II Deceit OF BROOKLYN
City or Churches is Not So
Moral as 1t Would Have
People Believe.
Badly Disposed Citizens Fill
the Dives of New York
Every Night.
, Editors Collection of Locks Of Hair
Profanity In Gotham-Sunday Clos
ing IL the Big Eastern Cities.

Editor's Collection Of Locks Of Hair
Profanity In Gotham-Sunday Clos
ing in the Big Eastern Cities.
)recial Correspondence OF The INDEPENDENCE
NEw York, Sept. 16.-There is a popular
OPPRESSION, particularly In the city OF
Rurchss itself, that Brooklyn ia a city of
gpcrior virtue. Frequently. indeed, the
him has been specifically advanced. These
aimants have said: WITNESS the orderly
kmeanor of our population, the reasonable
hmber of our saloons, the total absence OF
hseemly dives and dance halls and 80
/. It is notorious that the Brooklyn po-
be- are always Boosting about their success
preserving Brooklyn from the offense OF
sorderly houses. Az a matter of fact tho
ny enjoys greater freedom from haunts of
I'LL repute than any other city of its size in
10 world. Probably nobody who is at all
kauainted with the town will raise q doubt
the matter.
But. unfortunately for the successful
Fect Of Brooklyn's claims, too many OF
pem are made at the expense of the town
this side Of the bridge. New York IL
red Of hearing itself compared with
rooklyn and found wanting. 1t taxes her
etience to find herself repeatedly pointed
ut as the sinful sister city. When the IT.
ppressible TalmaRe investigates city sins
is excursions are to New York. When any
BROOKLYN preacher pictures modern vor-
pxes Of vice everybody in the pews under
bands him to be talking about New York.
il Brooklyn moralities New York is the
wful example. Brooklyn gathers up her
kirts and peers with a Shudder at the
|icked spectacle presented on the other
ide of the East river. At last New York
Uses to Indignantly remark that Brooklyn
Eould not enjoy 80 serene a reputation for
p~orality if her people stayed on their own
ide of the river at night.
There's tho rub. Brooklyn has do dives.
But who fill the New York dives every
light in the week? The Brooklyn police
permit no disorderly houses to blossom
githin their inviolate precincts. But who
you'd be interested in a Brooklyn dis
orderly house with a free bridge and plenty
I ferries leading to wicked New York!
No other city as large as Brooklyn is so
hear another city so large as New York.
Every afternoon the ferry boats passing
rom Brooklyn to New York carry q Gu
ious company of flashy women. Every
&bout this maligned metropolis. 1t is one
bf the jokes of the town that Brooklyn
~beopla-women as we'll as men-keep the
wheels of New York wickedness in motion.
But these people 60 back to Brooklyn per-
haps in the rnorning-wearlng that air OF
inaccessible chastity which constitutes so
Important an element to tho charm of the
4 y.Nf 1xyp ita5c n m on
Give New York her due. She may not be
Fery proper in all things, but remember,
non and brethren. that Brooklyn is q full
partner in her wickedness.
A Curious Collection.
They say romance is dead.
But l have Just been looking at a collec-
ion that might we'll appeal to the least sem
jmental of souls. You nave heard of and
been collections of weapons, of mummies,
pf burglars tools, of gods and of garters.
Everybody collects something curious nova
Hays, except men who collect money. They
|are too busy to collect anything else. l
Thought I had seen about every kind of a
collection until I saw this collection Of
locks Of hair.
It was shown me by an editor. The edi-
tor was in charge of a certain correspond
|ence department to which readers who have
never seen or had access to an encyclopedia
and who are never caught in the act of
thinking, write asking the editor to explain
the obvious and to expound the common
place. The people who sent to this editor
these locks of hair asked the EDITORS opin-
ion, first, as to the precise color of the hair;
second, as to various matters associated with
the quality and color of the sample.
You would never have believed there were
80 many shades of hair. These little twists
and tufts run the whole scale of color, from
the palest flaxen upthrough the richest reds
to Il deep oily black. They had all been sent
by women, who were presumed from the
letters to have reached years of maturity il
not Of discretion.
'The woman who sent this" said the
editor. holding up a wisp that glowed like
flicker Of forge fire. was evidently pro.
foundry uncertain as to it's color She asked
me to define the color. l answered in the
/ got a letter from a young mar who said hi
was the lover of the girl with Titan rec
hair, and asked me to please tell him what
color Titan red was!"
There were many droll letters associated
in the editors mind with various examples
of hair. Concerning a certain soft, ire.
descent shade of brown, the owner wanted
a jealous disposition. or course ever,
second letter asked, What do you think Of
nv handwriting?" One sent /,
great tuft of Enthusiastically a handful
If she had deliberately clipped that lock
and had not lost it by violence, the natura
conclusion would be that she was remarka
bly, endowed. You may take my word fol
it that many a woman manages q Psyche
Knot on less.
One little blonde lock. Of the color tina
women struggle for when they try bleach.
ing, was braided. 1t was q meek little frag-
ment and had a kind Of a pathos. So. in
deed. had many of tho other clippings. Ar
indstinable odor arose from the collection
Balzac, or Guy dc Maupasant, or George
Moore, or Edgar Saltus could deBcribe thai
odor. Gertrude Atherton might be de-
pended on to make a great point of it. Ger
tainly the aroma had a nysterlously sug.
gestive charm.
Perhaps it may destroy a little of the sen.
timent to add that the editor was a woman
Arc New Workers Very Profano?
A Maryland farmer who had hard lucl
This year came to New York the other day
to see what he could do with himself in thu
business world. This farmer is an homes
and u candid man. l asked him wha'
characteristic OF New York had made The
strongest impression upon him.
"Well," said the Maryland man. "wha'
strikes me hardest among you people Ii
your profanity"
II expressed my establishment.
'Yes," he went on. your New York her,
is the worst place l have struck yet fol
downright profanity. / don't call myself
stiokler for Sunday school talk, and where