The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-03
NELLY OFTHE PLAYGROUND
AN EAST SIDE GIRL MORE THAN A
MATCH FOR THE BAD BOYS.


Finds Boys an Encumbrance on the Earth
Her Fights Over the Swings and Her
Longing for Poles up which 20 shin.
Woman's suffrage Is needed on the East
Side. Down in seward Park feminine feel
ing runs high against masculine prerogatives
and assumption.
Ell they'd give me a pole to shin up. wud
/ be goin' over and botherin' the boys? Nit"
That's the way one outspoken and worthy
mail girl put the matter. She had Just been
dragged out of a swing and had her ring bitten
of by two small imps in boy form. so she could
he pardoned some hard feeling, and the girls
TO a unit agreed with her.
They want the earth. That's what they
wants and they'd like TO shove US girls on'n Il"
Wait a while and they'll want to hold you
on" suggested THE Sun reporter to whom
the tale of woe was being unfolded. but the
remark was ignored.
There they've got a gymnasium over on
the other side of the ground and we amt got
nothing but swings and they jes' come over
and knock US around shameful. Nelly's the
only one that can lick them. and she goes home
with her face scratched most every day"
b don't those men and the policeman
keep the boys In order?" asked the reporter
feebly.
Keep nothin' In order! While they's q
| chasin' two or three boys there's a dozen 9TH
| ers q naggin' at us. When the teachers here
it's better. The boys Is afraid of her. an she
likes little girls best. but men amt good fer
| nothin' - there wasn't any boys an not
any men in the world it'd be a lots nicer place"
Not any fathersP" asked a irowsy headed
little Jewess. doubtfully.
sl,,b. ubat diva xrapt IF fafhayst Amt
we got mothers?" said the small man hater.
.,.LI,o har e,oor rb.r. ~. ,,r, had or, 4,
'"oH."s ", 'nse WHY o"' ,s. ~. r.n.,,
.v. LOOK ,,m a. M, ,nem nancy nEsh hsoI poS ,"rDe ee an. ,aU %"
Even. hy,, 'm 40. ha.Iaa 80 ', as,,,n' ,ta u,r,s
pineh,n ,he oao'e', ana a-nn"h 'ne sm
a. %,s s,os ," eye q al ~, s ,esr IN ms a p PEI , .ose.ner ana
.n. nn, w,n,," IL. ,h,n H. ,.,.a
oh' y ""s' """"u a nm, ~.
little girl VINO seemed 10 thlnk Inc East size
yantippe WAS going To begin the extermjna-
ton at once
There's a bow pulling the swing away from
SUSIE %ns0 Come Cns % IN ;h Nelly m.n r Help d me lick him" ,o
preserve peace and order reached the scene he
mao consider ,rouDie d,sentangliDg me
pghch' ana WE boy wa'a tt.ne lrayen aDont lne
being licked lex si' By ya sIr IS " SSsil,y I mos snrsf SWING 4Hs.
WIN triumph blazing IN her eyes, and began 70
work up, tlrls oi all sizes stood around
H fIS street crowd gathered outside the I fence
and stared AZ NE swinging girl Her irock
was ragged and her shoes had holes IN them,
aG eom mfr IN m day ., feH s nstr w Hsa ado rSbro prstiy Si al
the same, and full of daring and audecity, as
asprlte | she went, higher ana higher. her
IasSSinI na and her 4e Ii,S eg'I j,, Tsaf frn1s s He5 llps
ike a reed, The, stolld faced Hebrew
fathers outside me fence relaxedt neir pair,-
nreD "ahilSirrssnn 'iI laughed Ssd os Tr!aita ey "afs ihe psdvy
row OF babies In helitlle chair swings gutsled
witt, delight. irish Nelly was irresistible.
charge, but he, too, smiled when. Nelly
shook back her flying hair and laughed
down a, him Then she began to sing
a street song. learned from a hand organ or
a m'isic-hall prima donna. II, wasn't particu-
larly elegant. but II had a rollicking 20 IL.
and she sang IL as gayly, and lightly as IL she
her hight
shes the lively one. Is Nelly" said an
anemic LITTLE maid who was sitting on the
trit'e smaller than herself And The good one
TO the babies,., she added Did you ever
see The sra 3epof MSli d sn, know Crazy Mol.
We'll, she's silly. you know. and one day
the boys over on Henry street, they knocked
The apples Nelly she was comm along, ali
dressed up. from first communion. Say. she
was n peach, veil and a wreath Of white flowers,
and a white dress, and white slippers. Old
Necktie Nike. on Grand street, he gave her
them things cause she vns such n corker in
n show they had fer the lodge. Well. she was
awaken along, and everybody was a rubberin'
ri her, and all of a sudden she sees what them
boys is doing to Crazy Mol. Say! First COM
mlinion wasn't In II. She Just jumped 4 in with
her veil a-streamin', and she scratched and biz
and kicked with them white slippers, and hit
she's an awful hitter. Bill RYAN that runs the
saloon on First avenue, he taught her to hit.
Hes n prize1phter, YOU know, md he was
Nelly'e sisters .teddy for a lie. lie said
Nelly could do Fitzsimmons TO a finish in two
rounds.
she did them BOYS 10 a finish, she did. They
run away but saw. vow ought 10 or seen them
1rst clothes. There vas rags of en-
nil over he block Nelly she went home and
"ricd She ia. loves nre,ty clothes and She
,rn.t neyar has any
Th, SWING mad stoned.
Coma on liz ~ yo,ir turn 4" yelled Ne,lv.
Then She Went over 20 the row of swinging
babies
"Vov would We look M those darlinos Some
is having the fun of their lives and some Is
scared 10 death and some can't make No their
minds whether rs n funeral or a weddin' See
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