The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-12
Bah DOES SOME PREACHING.
She Has Considerable to Say About the
Fast Girl
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ont everything that is bad. The weeds
grow tall with great rapidly. Converse
ton itself is emphatic, and everything that
is Objectionable in the human line ap-
pears on the surface. You start out TO
hunt a cool place. You meet that femin-
inc body who is known as the fast girl.
Now. for once in my life l am going
to do a little preaching. Every girl has
a right to a certain amount of enjoy
ment in her life, but there is no reason
why that enjoyment may not be full OF
real fun and even piquant without being
Objectionable The fast girl, however, dis
agrees with me. 1 do not like a prude,
but there is a distinct difference between
a prude and a fast girl. The fast girl
laughs loudly as she tells a crowd of men
admirers that she likes to be counted a
Jolly cOmrade.
Now my listener, no woman who is "a
Jolly comrade" ever gains that respect
due her womanhood or that love which
is. after all, the best thing in life. She
may be a charming companion, an inter-
esting friend but the very instant a girl
becomes "a jolly comrade' she opens the
gates to land overgrown with thought
lessness full of sad results and having
at its very entrance modes of speech ana
behavior for which most men would like
to kick that other man if he gave either TO
a gentleman's sister.
You who are pretty, young, well dressed,
quick of brain and fond of admiration, you
who think the comradeship idea a marvel
ously good one-you know as wen as do
that a year ago your face would have
flushed and you would never have spoken
again to the man who to-day has talked to
you in a fashion that now makes you
laugh You prove by your appreciation that
the bloom is brushed off the peach. Why
is it that so many of our American girls
are counted amusing, but so little worthy
of respect, in strange countries? Here's
the reason: 1t is because, having gained
laughter and what is considered admiration
from this man or thai one, in this hotel OF
on that train, their manners grow to be
such that nothing is too bad to character
ize them The hotel corridors are their IA
vorite promenading places. They laugh and
tell quieter girl that by walking up and
down the Railways a chance is gained to
see the newest arrivals and find out if any
one of them is worth cultivating. They
think it immensely clever to whistle for the
elevator to stop, and as the men who are
iii ii look at them with amusement it never
dawns on their minds that they give the
same look to a notorious dancer or an act
ress whose reputation is not of the best.
Once in the elevator, the fast girl huns
the latest song, swishes her skirts so that
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when she goes into the dining room she
jingles her keys and probably drops her
handkerchief near the handsome man
whom somebody has told her is Lord Blue
blood. 1t is just possible he may teach her
a lesson by allowing his servant or even
herself to pick 1t up, but it is much more
possible that he will hand it to her him
self, ask her if she Will be on the veranda
a little later and then inquire If he may
come and have a chat with her. He APP
pears al the appointed time, but when, al
ter much foolish chatter, she mentions that
she would like to meet his sisters, who are
travelling with him, he quickly gives her
to understand that his sisters are not al
lowed to meet strange people-that they
are ladies'. Possibly if she is simply a
thoughtless girl, she has a hard cry that
night and kneels down and says little
prayer che had almost forgotten, While she
resolves to try to be better girl, but if
she is a vertable fast girl she grows de-
liant and says to herself that his stiff, ugly
sisters can meet anybody they want 10, for
she has no desire to know them.
The next morning, in the latter contin-
gency, she is rather more pronounced in
her behavior than before. At the table
She laughs so loudly that every body turns
TO stare at her, as she believes in appro-
baton. AS if there ever was a man or a
woman who did not admire that charm,
low, sweet voice! Once on the train, she
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and, having nobdy else to talk to, INDUCES
in a conversation with the porter, during
which she tells him where she is going and
that she intends 10 tip him as she inquiries
If Mr.. Giltedge, VIGOROUSLY well known
young man. happens to be on the train.
Her costume is always the very extreme
of fashion. When close fitting bodices are in
vogue the one worn by the fast girl looks
as II It were her very own skin and she
were absolutely nodded in 1t. If bright
colors are the fashion, she chooses the gay
est while if the average hat has three
plumes on it hers is burdened under nine
She is always an extremist, and this is al
way vulgar
A well bred girl wears a hat and dress
that in good style, butA she never
dresses in such a way that common men
follow her because of her loud appearance
or speak to her without hesitation in an
sWer to the invitation that goes from her
eyes or from her walk. Possibly you
think | am eXaggerating. Watch some
girl who is foolishly fast as she walks. She
lacks repose, and at every fourth or fifth
step she turns around to see if somebody
is gazing at her and to induce the look
that has not already been given. Of+enest
she is pretty. You may admire ner APP
pearance; but being a we'll bred man. you
are Mortified at her manners. When you
are first introduced to her and compliment
her on her beauty, you do SO with bold
ness that is a surprise to you. She offers
az once TO send you her photograph. and
1t comes with some rather questionable
quotation written on the back. A compH-
ment? Oh. dear no! 1t delights her eoul
TO tell of the number of photographs that
she has given and that are posted in bach
etor apartments all over the country
Without any thought she gives her pic
ture to Tom Dick or Harry. so that her
race is as common as that of the latest
adventures or the most expert performer
ON the trapeze.
Having become thoroughly hardened and
having lost each of her pretty, womanly