The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-03-15
I'VE Boys" of Jonesboro,

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A more thoroughly contemplate
piece Of littleness and lack OF good
breeding than that exhibited in the
weekly anonymous communications
IN the Jonerboro Herald and Tribune
from ave Bays" one rarely meets
with. 1t strikes us that "Old Grannies"
would be the much better nom de
plume for these silly, vapid, seltap-
pointed critics.
1t seems that short time since the
young ladies of that town, rs is their
custom. gave reception to the young
gentlemen, and among the invited
guests-there being scarcity OF boys
in their town, and not enough to go
rouad included n select few of their
gentlemen friends from this place and
Bristol. Some of the Jonesboro boys,
o very few. we uuderstaud-and the |
fewer the better always-who seem
ingly think themselves all-sufiicieuC
for all occasions, Interpreted this invi.
tation 80 The boys Of neigkboring
towns to be slight to themselves and
their allsufficiency, and refused to at
1 tend the reception on this account.
I These thus offended old grannles
/. have styled themselves eve Boys"
d and, as means of repaying the girls
for the lancied slight to themselves,
are filling a weekly column of the
~ Herald and Tribune with lot of silly,
y, old maidish stuff, which not only lacks
y good sense, but is indicate, vulgar,
; immodest, very improper and brutality
common. These communications pre-
N tend to report overheard conversations
~ between the young ladies made upon
# the pubic street, peeps into the cellar,
q. the kitchen and parlor-lesves nothing
If sacred in their prudsh eyes, and puts
40 the cOarsest, commonest kind OF re-
IN marks into the young ladies' CONVEX
+, sations, and seeks to create the i'm.
=, preston that the Jonesboro young IL
of dies are a set of street gadding, i'm
modest loud.talking, husband hunting
creatures, whose only object in life i,
to make home unpleasant for thei
at mothers and unbearable for their little
nm sisters, whose ears are daily boxed il
he the back yards, aud to catch a nev
ba beau each week from the visiting
20. drummers. And all this because thes
,es young ladies have failed to please TIL
,at aesthetic taste Of these young gentle
he men CD in the selection of guests II
as one OF their receptions
nd We have been raised to believe tina
m. 1.-THE host or hostess had perfect RICH
goo to select their own guests without
- subjecting themselves 10 series {
coarse, vulgar and brutal criticism
which cannot help but be humiliatin
to lady or gentleman OF delicat
ion feeling and refined tastes, 1t seem
erv that we have been mistaken in thi
NO. however. We do not know, personally
NV very many Of the Jonesboro youn
ice ladies' but we know their parents, an
we know, from them, that these low
ia coarse remarks attributed to the
the daughters are only the creations {
On. the writers Of these communications
INV that the remarks attributed to them,
cen heard at all, were heard alone frol
his some one who does not belong to tn
"A better class of Jonesboro's society, an
ook seeks this method of attacking tho
ted who are above them both in birth ar
ain breeding.
who We are astonished that the Herd
in and Tribune can find room in its CT
i'm umns for this vulgar stuff. We ha
was always thought that our neighb
md posed as the champion Of Jonesbort
fer. schools and churches, and the supe
Ority of her society.