Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-06-16

''sex question, ~ which Gho ia greatly I
given tn discussing. As enGgesiion
ii SHOULD he auaBni in water made !
strung with Gyalic ariti, 10 that WHEN II (
Ia nut into fne sun IL will tail to rags /
under that warm influence, its own /
nsstineHs having killed it. A we'll
bred girl told mo Of cirl Bhe knew,
the daughter of wealthy man, who |
had all abe could possibly wish for. but
who deliberately urged young man
who earned evory month about as much |
as she spent on rriiies to get her blue
enameled chatelaine watch. lie got 1t
for her, and his thanks were that some
thing which overy girl should reserve
for the man she means to marry--a
kiss And she told far and wide OF her
clevernesH in getting this watch and
having to pay 10 little for it! She
never dreamed of how much it did cost
her. Once kiss is easily won, the
average man sess no reason why ne
should rot have as many kisses as he
desires or why, having kiss, he may
not include with it AN affectionate en-
brace.
Another girl told me OF something
which she saw and which made her
wonder. She went to supper given
III "a osbohf
bright fellow, VINO was being made
much of because he was in his old
home At supper he ate p6ilopena
with one OF the prettiest girls in the
place. Later, when they were standing
| in tho hail, no threw a scarf across her
shoulders, deitly pulled nor head back,
quickly kissed her, fret upon the mouth
and then upon nor beautiful bare
| shoulder. She struck him with her
fan, laughed and said Philoponn!" II
made charming picture. But would
you like girl that you loved heine
made the leading lady in play of this
uort? The fast girl hus no hesitancy
in telling her man friends when she
yearna for soma sweets, and, as bright
| pirl said to me, ut is disgrace to
our womanhood and a crying shame
that mon can buy our cumpanionship
with a couple of dollars worth OF
sugar."
The fast girl has a foolish idea that
to be able tn smoke cigarette, to use
the latest slang-in fnct, to be free and
easy in her manners, attracts men to
her. Possibly it does-a certain kind
of meu-but gentleman, having once
realized the sort of girl she is, sven
though he be the best Of men, credits
her with veritable wickedness and
never with thoughtlessness for men
seldom discriminate 81 far as women are
concerned.
Her uue idea Ia to have good time.
A good time 10 her vocabulary is
usually loud time, Il vulgar time and
time that, il she ever does stop to
think, she will find herself regrettiDg.
Nothing pleases her better than to go
into a shop, grow very familiar with
the salesman, tell of her tastes, laugh
over her purchases and inform him
that he ia 80 pleasant that sha intends
to hunt him up whenever she comes
there.
There is something elss that to you
and to me, interested in the average
American girl, is most offensive in the
fast girl. That is the way she cult
Yates by self introduction actors,
singers or mon who in any way are in
public life. The girl who stands around
the stage door to see the handsome
, actor appear, sends him bouquets, with
, long quotations attached to them, and
, throws herself into Mysteries when the
great pianist or the Unknown tenor
is saying his "good- by for tho season
, in a girl who. if she may have done
: nothing worse, is gradually drifting
,, toward the typical fast girl
What is going to be her future? Does
auy man want to marry herY Some
brainlesa idiot may think her "stun
! ning'i and ask her to bear his rather
y ordinary name. There is little ques
-, ton Of love in this. She is heginniue
to be counted among the older girls ant
realizes the necessity OF having Mrs. '
n on her visiting cards. Then, as she il
| knk r,h 20 60 ,a
coming to her, she enters the holy state
of matrimony. What kind of wifi,
will she mRksy She will not be bothered
!, with housekeeping, hut lives, accord
! ing to her husbands income, either il
! clearinghouse or hotel. ShI
: desuises children; consequently Their,
y are no little onea about her to softer
g her heart ami take that hard look from
= her fuce. She is bad wife and al
= absolutely useless member of the com
! munity. She sleeps late in the mUrn
a ing, breakfasts in bed, enjoys gont
= luncheon and than dresses to 20 ou
:, for walk. She reaches hons jus
before dinner, but does not tell wher
' she has been. Dressing for Dime
means dressing to go out again, for a
i neither she nor her husband find
q pleasure in each others society the
!, must seek amusement at tho theatre
= opera or perhaps at a card party. Iol
i. call this life! / do not. IL IL not evel
4 existing. 1t is life without love
= without belief and without ambition
= but il is certain to be the kind of mar
g ried life achieved by the fast girl.
2 And IL she doesn't marryY The
q while most OF her money il spent o.
g fine clothes large PORTION OF it goe
- toward buying lotions warranted to re
- move wrinkles, pills to make the forr
% shapely or creams which make wash
- ing the face entirely unnecessary an
N which ara guaranteed to make womn
- of 40 look II, by this time the faE
II girl has become the fast woman. He
~ appearances 10 such that her wome
Il friends would rather not 60 on til
~ street with her. There is a little to
IS much rouge, little too much poWde
n and little too much OF make up i
general for gentlewoman to care
appear in public no her companion
"A Men have tired of her. She is not i
"a the way OF hearing the last new Sian
or the latest story, whil0 her voice
q which once was young and pretty,
~ now decidedly out OF tune, go that vine
y, she sings and tries to be coquettish sh
- is simply an object of ridicule.
J. !, there ia any girl in this great countr
:. who has even the slightest inclinatio
d toward being fast, abe should crush
n as quickly at she can 49,.
q The woman governs the world is
"a positIve truth-uot the new womat
n with her ATTEMPT at masculinity; nc
4 the fast girl, with her determination
do, lN,,k b ha ii 10 in