The age-herald., 1901-10-27
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U\t past season I mentioned once t>"S - or twice a fact or two concern ing the rather handsome young women employed in the stores. These attracted considerable admiration. Young men at that age of puppyhood that Is bounded on the south by the first year out of col lege and on the ncSth by roseate expecta- tions of promising futures through which they propose stalking like intel lectual Titans cast sheep's eyes at these maidens, and they were rewarded by the highly prized "goo-goo eyes in return. And all of this sort of thing gave much amusement to fathers and mothers.
 l am sorry to make a confession. I regret to confess a palpable. perceptible state of affairs. It is this. Most eminent ly respectable fathers and mothers do not mind the moral transgressions of their sons provided the sons can accomplish a sub-rosa cereer without becoming en- meshed in an entanglement of a serious kind. Sons are supposed to SOW wild oats, but they are supposed to SOW them on safe basis, even though a somewhat expensive one. Believing the pretty shop girls of Newport were but daughters of Eve duly impressed with the unfordable depths of the social gulf fixed between the fashionable attitudes of the young mems station In life and the humble one they occupied the mothers and fathers lived and breathed in the idea that their sons would do no more than bring sorrow and shame in humble homes.
 But alack, alas for the reckoning of tnese parents. The young women of New port stores were not only handsome, but they were virtuous. Of themselves they had pretty fair opinion. Educated m public schools. well taught at home their responded quickly to such advan- tages as they received. with the result that comparing themselves to the young 2 women of fashion they had no cause to 1eel a sense of displeasure They may not have had quite as many so-called &C., complshments or acquired so many af- fections of speech, and they may not nave learned to regard themselves as superior clay. still the mirror revealed them to oft-times more pleasing in fea- lure, more perfect in figure and more healthy in physique
 And so when these sons of the upper ten went sparkling the daughters of the lower five they found themselves ad- miring women who were oft-times their equals and superiors. Among the latest was the son of w. Storrs Wells, the youthful J. Raynor Wells. He fell in love with beautiful young lady whose charms were labeled under the Celtic cognomen of Moloney. He worshiped, wooed and won He desired her to forget Wells.
 Now this Is ''becoming enmeshed in an entanglement of serious kind" and Wells, pere, interfered. The young man, who is not only of age but enjoys an in- come rom a fortune, left to him by a grandmother, asserted himself A truce was effected, however, and the youthful Wells was sent abroad to join his mother In Europe, while Miss Moloney blew kisses on her sweet fingers from the steamship dock.
 It makes me laugh. When I see the people who are all the thiItz today tren, bling for fear their azure-tinted blood will be mixed with that flowing in plebeian veins. marvel at that strange halluci- nation which persuades them that their veinous fluid has lost the savor of the lower strata
 saw two babies the other day. I don't care to talk much about these packets of undeveloped manhood as a rule, but I have something to say about these babies. l happened to be down at the dock when the Teutonic arrived, to meet a friend of mine. I don't often do this sort of thing. but the chap I went to meet was an English gentleman at whose country seat I have often stopped and I thought 1t only decent. We'll, the widow Brown came over, and under her eye the hope of the Brown family in Mas ter John Nicholas Brown, Jr.. agen 1s months. This possessor of seven millions was surrounded by nurses and attendants suite fit for a prince. He did not have the much talked of silver spoon in his mouth. That was probably because 1t was too massive. He had everything that wealth could buy, and he looked about him as though conscious of 1t all.
 But the other baby. In the afternoon volunteered to escort dear little woman on an errand of mercy. We called at a tenement within two blocks of the grand est houses in this great city Rainbow 1t smelled. We'll 1t was the old story of young man out of work, naked little group of pinchedfaced children, a refined looking man, worried little woman with a nursing baby at her breast. It had cried for several days. Why? Simply because. the mother had nothing to live on but milk and tea. One quart of milk every other day. The baby-oh, 1t was awful could not help thinking of Mas fer Brown of Providepea I1fu {noox,,o e~