San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-08-04

let OF hundred impertinent mas
culine eyes everytime that they
are compelled to go upon the street,
and they will tell you that they
dread it, that it is terror to them
and that they would not be seen
On foot on the street if il could be
avoided. What your wife, sister
and daughters suffer is suffered
every day by women just as sensi-
tive and just as modest and just
as refined, who are compelled to
run this battery of the street in
pursuing their regular avocations
in life. Is not their work suffici-
emily harrassing and uncomfor-
table and burdensome without
being compelled to carry the
weight OF such ungentlemsnly, not
to say impertinent and insulting
observation?
1t is true that all the fools and
coarse minded are not in the mas
.culine ranks, and that there are
women who 60 upon the streets to
attract attention, and these among
those who would be insulted II
classed outside of the pale OF the
most worthy sisterhood, but the
number Of these is not legion. A
woman carries individuality with
her on the street, as well as in her
home, and it does by no means fol-
low that because she is tastefully
gowned that she has dressed to at
tract notice. This woman could
not be unappropriately dressed
anywhere, for it is not in her, but
it is a poor tribute to her unexcep-
tional taste to punish her in this
fashion for exercising it.
A thing of beauty is a joy for.
ever, and there is nothing more
beautiful than beautiful woman,
in a beautiful dress, with beautiful
manners and carriage, but these
are not put on the street to be
stared at and shamed out Of coun.
tenance. One would think that the
majority of men on the streets OF
this city had just returned from
eastern captivity, where women
are not seen on the srteet, and that
their eyes were making up for lost
tinae.4 not pleasant to have
kcultured strangers remark upon
this tendency of the men in this
city to stare ladies out OF counte-
nance on the public thoroughfares,
and vet the attention Of the LIGHT
preacher has been directed to this
limpertinent habit again and again
by ladies from abroad who tempo
rarily visit here.
The habit is one to be reprehend'
ed, for it is destructive OF that real
reverence for the woman which
has 80 long been regarded as an
American characteristic. 1t may
be said in extenuation, that there
are more really handsome womer
seen on the streets Of San Antonio
than are found in any other city o
its size, but this is no excuse. Tit
very fact that beautiful women arr
80 frequently seen should lead tt
their passing without remark
either of eyes or mouth. Strang'
gentlemen might plead this excuse
but it is not at the stranger within
our gates that this discourse i
fred, it is intended for the grow
up boys and the full fledged mel
!, of this attractive city.
} No man who is in the habit o
5 thus taking an inventory Of the la
s dies as he meets them on the pave
8 will ever stand we'll in the estima
q ton of the best women OF his az
n quaintance. Women do not tax
Q kindly to any admiration tina
/. makes them conspicuous, an
n there Is no surer passport to tru
n Iady's favorable consideration tina
I. a delicacy and subtileness OF &C
n miration that is as far remove
from street staring as the east
n from the west. The young ma
n who seeks the distinction OF stan'
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