Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-29
Girls Who Cad.

They have poor opinion in Kansas
Of girls who gad The Emporin Ga
zette tells that one of its reporters
found five Kansan women out gadding
Commercial street while the cooking
school was in session. These young
women are said to be daughters of re-
spectacle parents, though none of
these are rich. The girls are all well
dressed--one so overdressed, indeed,
that Kansan good folk are wondering
what her mother means. This over
dressed girl is II. She declares that
she docsn't intend to learn to cook, and
then she Giii nevcr 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 re-
porter found on investigation, that
one of the fatner's creditors was
baker, 10 whom he owed $215 for bread,
pies and cookies.
The scccnd Sill Of the quintet boasts
that no one can teach her to cook like
her mother. Under maternal instluc
tion she has learned to make ten kinds
of candy four of cake and several ar
tistic creations with whipped cream.
She has not yet, however, made such
progress as to enable her to know the
1i iffnpnnpn nd
broiled meat, nor is she yet qualified
to boil potatoes with their jackets on.
The third girl of this Kansan 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 We're too nice for this
world. She is always grunting on
wash day, and her poor mother hasn't
had new dress since 1888, though
Myrtle is dressed to kill" This classic
description is, of course, from the pen
of Sunflower scribe.
He next turns lis attention to a
young married woman who is 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 sne has bills for canned
goods and ready-made food at six gro
Gerry stores. Their grocery bill is over
$50 a month, and John cant 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 a good many John Slowbys
in this country, and entirely too many
Mrs. John Slowbys, but the latter
would have to raison d'etre were it not
| that the lazy women can too easily
| pick up fool husbands. Fool husbands
| and fool parents are responsible for
the prevalence { 4e gaddlng woman,
who is frequently met in Marietta, as
well as elsewhere throughout the
length and breadth of the land.
Tney are here. as well as in Kan
sas, misses Earle Risers," whose days
are divided into three parts-sleep,
sloth and street gadding. This class
of girls avoid the cooking school. 1ney
are not home builders. They flirt with
strangers, and irreverent young men
claim that one may love them all after
a hrst visit. This is, at all events,
true of the Emporia species; and, pos
sibly, true of her Marietta sister and
of the girl who gads everywhere. Open
air exercise is good for girls, but th2
girl whose only school for improve
ment is the street usually gets down
to the STANDARD of the street