The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-06-13
The Girl Who Gads About the City Streets

with.
The Girl Who GadS About the City Streets.
They have poor opinion in Kan
sas of girls who CAD. The Emporia
Gazette tells that one of its reporters
found five Kansas women out CAD
ding Commercial street while the
cooking school was in session. These
young woman are said to be the
daughters of respectable parents,
though none of these is rich. The
girls are all we'll dressed-one so over
dressed, indeed, that Kansan good
folk are wondering what her mother
means. This overdressed girl is II.
She declares that she does not intend
to learn to cook, and then she will
never have to. The fact that her
father went through the Bankruptcy
Court last year does not affect her
at least, not for any useful purpose.
The enterprising Kansan reporter
found, on investigation, one of the
fathers creditors was baker, to
whom he owed $215 for bread, pies
| and cookies.
The second girl of the quintet
boasts that no one can teach her to
cook like her mother. Under mater
nal instruction she has learned how
to make ten kinds of candy, four of
cake and several artistic creations
with whipped cream. She has not
yet, however, made such progress as
to enable her to know the difference
between boiled meat and broiled
meat, nor is she yet qualified to boil
potatoes with their jackets on. The
third girl of this Kansas group of
women is described as a snappy little
piece. who tells lots of boy stories,
constantly making breaks and laugh
ing at them. "She looks at the ground
when she walks, and minces along as
though she were too nice for this
world. She is always granting on
wash day, and her poor mother hasn't
had a new dress since 1888, though
Myrtle is dressed to kill" This classic
description is, of course, from the pen
of Sunfower scribe.
He next turns attention to a young
married woman afflicted with the
gadding mania. He says: John
| Slowly is a railroad man. He has
been married three years. He turns
his money over to his wife every pay
day, and she has bills for canned
goods and ready-made food at six
grocery stores. Their grocery bill is
over $50 month, and John can't see
where it goes. He should look in the
slop bucket. Half the food she cooks
is spoiled, and none of it is ever made
| over"
There are good many John Slow
| by's in this country and entirely too
many Mrs. John Slowby's, but the
latter would have no raison d'etre
were it not that lazy women can too
easily pick up fool husbands. Fool
husbands and fool parents are re-
sponsible for the prevalence of the
| gadding woman, who is frequently
met in Oakland, as well as any
where else throughout the length and
bredth of the land.
There are here as we'll as in Kansas
misses Earle Rises, whose days are
divided into three parts-sleep, sloth
and street gadding. This class of girls
avoid the cooking school. They are
not home builders. They fiirt with
strangers, and irreverent young men
claim that one may love them all af-
ter first visit. This is, at all events,
true of the Emporia species; and, pos
sibly, true of her Oakland sister and
of the girl who gads everywhere.
Open air exercise is good for girls, but
| the girl whose only school of improve
ment is the street usually gets down
to the standard of the street