The Sunday globe., 1901-05-19
LIGHTS AND SHADES.
What a Sober Pedestrian Sees After
Dark in Washington.
THE COLUMBIA SCENIC CARS.

heoN6SS ana hfalen TOung femaleS uul TOT
Lark-The Liberties Of Tho Softer Sex Re-
spOnsIhIe-The BoWeU Shady Housss--Ths
Matinee Girls Waiting for AOtOrs-Strest
Scenes and Incidents.
With the liberties and latitude allowed
young women in this city the won
der is not that so many go stray,
but that any are saved and kept in the
straight paths of virtue. This will be.
come manifest to any observant citizen
whose business or pleasure finds him on
the streets of the Capital City after or
from midnight to the "wee sma hours
of the morning. The avenue is not by
any means the most conspicuous theater
! of the larks "openly conducted by well
dressed and apparently respectable ladies
and their male escorts Last night was
not very good average for this unbecom-
ing conduct and yet the Globe witnessed
from midnight to 2 a, M, more than
enough exhibitions of depravity and reck
less defiance Of all the propreties to fill,
if narrated several pages Of the Globe.
In the vicinity of Judiciary Park three
young ladies, neither, of whom had at
tanned hertwentieth year wer boisterously
wrestling and skylarking with their es-
corts. All were under the influence OF
drink and the women were apparently
ready for any kind of fun, the more "dev.
ilish you know the better.
Say Aleck let me, (hic) put my hand
in your pocket, Jennie she (hic) can do
it maudlingly h!ccoughed the young
blonde of the party as she endeavored to
kick tile hat off Aleck s head and would
have fallen bnt for another of the male
trio who caught her in his arms. "Here
don't you (hic) squeeze me Lou, so hard
chic Pm too full and like (hic) sponge"
And then all six roared in unison while
the ladies cut pigeon wings aud the men
patted hands encouragingly.
Oh lets go home fellers, (hic) Pm
getting my stomach in me mouth"
Lets go in the park (hic) and stay
awhile" " answered one Of the boozey
young men, you girls have pass keys-no
work morning see.'
And holding each other in Greco
Roman style the couples zig Jagged
across the street and the Globe man
turned a corner marveling much, as he
recognized one of the young ladies', who
is very modest and retiring census clerk
while two of the male escort were known
to be government clerks.
The real devilment, if one wants TO
see it, is along about midnight on the
| Columbia avenue electric cars which
run to the Junction. Many of the
ladies patronizing this line, in and
about the hour mentioned imagine
themselves in gay Parice and act ac-
cordingly. If the night is sultry they
are not restrained by any conventional
ity from keeping themselves cool. in
manner as startling as it is unprinta-
bic. Suffice it to state that no lady in
short skirts on bycicle ever exhibited
as much hose as these hilarious young
women returning from an evenings
outing at the junction. They hide
| their bushes too, not with their hands
or handkerchiefs, but with their skirts,
and to do so they never descend to the
school girl mode of putting her head
down to her lap. Just the contrary is
" de fashion of the registering females
full of Junction--ice cream and pea
nuts.
To walk home, or remain at the
Junction all night is the only alterna-
tives left the respectable and modest
members Of either sex, if they want to
avoid witnessing scenes which discount
the obscenities Of the old Partisan Jar
din Mabile, or the present Follies Ber.
/ gier in that gay city. The male es-
corts-and they are not required to be
acquaintanc of these damsels-do not
have to stand up and hold on to straps
/ in the Columbia avenue cars, however
crowded. Thy can sit on the laps of
/ the ladies or vice versa, and to prevent
accident bold them in their arms or
around the necks and the waists; wher-
ever they can best get the strangers
hold, and such strangling" kicking,
screaming, squirming and -.
But we drop the subject and hope
that the ladies referred to will IN future,
do the same with their -- skirts!
DO the parents of the matinee girl and
the lovers Of the more than developed
buds who intermix with the young
misses know Of the disgusting exhibit
ton these foolish creatures make of
themselves-after the matinee is over?
No, of course, not, ii is to abate the
| nuisance, and, if possible, save the
actors from insanity, whicn moves The
Globe to indict the following In front
Of the fashionable Lafayette, as well as
the more plebeian National Theatre,
groups of young girls in their teens and
more mature damsets, who ought to
have some sense Of the proprieties, re-
main after the performance is over to see
the actors come out from their dressing
rooms. They crowd the side walks and
/ adjacent alleys, crushing each other
and scanning their necks to get view
/ of the stage RomeOs and Juliets who
come out. Their ggglings, their
| "Ohs ~, and their "Ahs y with more
| intelligably expressions Isn't he jrst
handsome - can be heard by the object
Of their admiration, as they are uttered
at him, as it were, under his mustache.
These young girls are members Of the
best FAMILIES in the city, and many of
them Of the most exclusive and aristo-
| cratic set.
Their conduct is forward and inde-
cent and disgustingly familiar, and