New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-13
OH, GIRLS! GIVE Us A REST!

on. GIRLS! GIVE Us A REST!
We have not the SLIGHTEST wish to Interfere
with the evident purpose of the various women
| young and old, who have been holding the head
| lines in newspapers and basking in the public
| eve for some time past. We presume that some
how or other they find publicity profitable as
well rs agreeable. Nor would we Willingly IN
! trrfere with the business enterprises OF those
| of our contemporaries who have been indus
| trollsly meeting n long-felt want by printing
| extra editions containing the latest" and the
| Every latest" intelligence from these misunder-
| stood mlsreprcsented and oppressed females OF
various ages accompanied by pictorial illustra-
| lions of their personal charms. But really-we
| venture the suggestion with some tImidity lest
we run athwart what may be universal yeIrn-
Ing for that sort of intellectual stimulus really.
haven't the girls held the stage long enough?
Wouldn't it be well for them To huddle off into
the wings temporarily, or have the curtain rung
down on these tableauX that the public can
have a rest, and perhaps 20 out and get a Glove?
The girls are bcwildering. If not beautiful, but
they have generated hysteria, and it occurs to
us that It Is about time 10 get little fresh air.
Here is this young Aub woman. about whom
though on some points there may be a variety
Of opinions thing is certain, TO wit, that
space-writers and kodak shooters never enjoyed
such 4 boon as she has been There are book
agents and book-agents but none that ever so
successfully arrested public attention, engrossed
curiosity or enlisted sympathy. Thousands OF
people have been talking about her, ana the
newspapers have been filled with her for many
DAYS Several emotional persons Of her own
sex. who have been all their lives in communica-
ton and contact with young women Of unsullied
purity-whO thank God. are the ordinary young
women yet-havc been lifted into an atmOs-
phere Of exaltation by communion with her to
that extent that they seemed to irradiate each
other She upset the calmnesS and serenity of
the bench and whrled the Judge into vortex
of extra judicial mOralizings and mira judicial
denunciations while the jury wept and one OF
them went crazy. Then, when everybody had
gone hysterical her, she calmly turned
round and said she had been lying all the time.
The new phase Of affairs started another hys-
terra and she held the stage. This was either
insanity or ceverness; but whichever it was it
kent her among the headlines Of the press and
in the public eve. Just as this sensation was
dying away she Topped again and said her first
story was true and her last II lie. There were
then more interviews. more pictures, more head
lines and more extras. There's where Barbara
was at last accounts Meantme-most remark
able Of all-the publishers of the book for which
she was canvassing have RETAINED from adj
vertising the fact. What's the matter with
them? Have they no business sense:
Then there's Lizzie Somebody or-O other, whom
Magistrate Mott committed to the Island for
being out late at night, for which the Magistrate
ha hoo criticised
as being either extra or mira judicial. The
Magistrates sentence AT once made Lizzie IA
mouS-or more correctly speaking, notorious.
The sensational press took up her case at once
and with pictures and headlines set her up to
the public gaze There were interviews with
her and pictures Of her in her prison garb, to-
gpther with precise descriptions Of her bill Of
fare and details nnumerable And there were
reports from various sources To her moral
character and her history from earliest infancy.
and, Of course. differences Of opinion as 10
whether she was really good girl and how
good she Not nice thing to be sure, for
the girl, and not wholesome gossip for the com
munity entertained by it. But it supplied sensa
ton. AMI sensation Of the current sort. All be-
cause the poor girl was ont late at night, and
an Overzealous Magistrate had pronounced an
unwise and hasty Judgment.
Then there's Mrs. Mary OIIearn, lovely and
deserving widow. who some time ago, being
engaged in the commendable and lucrative pur-
suit Of running a saloon to support herself and
orphaned children. was arrested for selling 10
cents worth of whskey on Sunday and SEN
fenced to three months on the Island Through
the efforts Of II city newspaper she was par
doned by the Governor. after having her biogra
ply printed accompanied by picture and
several historical editorials the cruelty Of the
Judge and the generally infamous manner in
which the laws are enforced under the present |
municipal administration. II might be sup |
posed that this old girl had enjoyed enough Of
publicity. But no. she resumed business 1T the |
old stand. doubtless with increased patronage
resulting from the advertisement. And the other !
night a fierce and desperate highwayman held |
mp the man whom she had left in temporary |
charge Of her bar and swooping down upon her |
treasury made of with something over 50. |