The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-08
THE FLEETTNG SHOW.
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 as an unjust, prejudiced, bitter dertactor of every thing American whose only purpose was to vilify or caricature. It is doubtful if 1t would have been wise | for her to attempt a second visit to some of the places described. Yet she 1 claimed to be entirely free from malice, and to write of what she saw exactly as she saw it. Certainly she found many things to admire as we'll as to censure.
 The work having been long out of print, and being of considerable value to the student of social conditions in the early part of this century, a new edition has recently been issued. Look ing it over one cannot help asking What if the ghost of this observant and criti- cal lady should return and walk once more among us? Would she not find that, in spite of all our advancement, one practice to which she often alluded, and always with disgust, still obtains among us? Would she not often be compelled to walk with lifted skirts around those nauseating little pools that defile our pavements, and not only those but steps, and stairways, halls,
 
 The habit of expectoration seems to be a very common one. Mrs. Trollope very plainly calls 1t "spitting" "The loath- some splitting, from the contamination of which 1t was absolutely impossible to protect our dresses; "spitting to an excess that decency forbids me to de- scribe; "the splitting was unceaslng''-- these are some of her sentences, not very agreeable to read but almost as truly describing the habit of to-day as that of sixty years ago. The lady who for business or pleasure takes her exercise in that wholesome way, walk ing, finds her comfort greatly interfered with. Disgust, defllenent, "contanlina- ton, n,''-why should the pedestrian, man woman, be compelled to endure them? Why should there not be City bylaw obliging those who must SD eXpec- torate to go to the edge of the curb2 A heavy fine should be paid by those who transgress this rule of decency. The gutters should be flushed to carry away the accumulation of uncleanliness but the fines would provide for the ex- pense of this and there would be enough money left to pay for the sys- tematic and thorough watering of the streets. And the gain in the neat ap- pearance of the walks, and halls of buildings, and the delight of pedes- trians to see this curse removed, and the positive benefit to the health of the multitude, alone would make this ex- pertinent worth trying. One peculiar thing about this uncleanly habit is that it seems to be the property of the male persuasion. Little boys begin it and carry 1t on into youth with evident enjoyment of it as a manly art, but who ever sees little girls initiating them? And if a girl or woman ever finds herself on the public street obliged to free her throat from some obnoxious accumulation she does 1t in a shame faced way and as quietly as possible. All the instincts of woman's nature are opposed to the foul practice, and it is not right that she should be incom- moded, disgusted, or endangered by it. This common, but most offensive, utterly abominable habit is far worse plague than that of the dust Dust Is a joy compared to it. Let us have in- relief Please, Br. Mayor, and all city fathers, may we not have I'M MEDIATE RELIEF, and have it RIGHT AWAY?
 HILARY.