The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-23

eye so much' she told the magistrate,
but L can't stand this scalp Disagreement
for life" "Oh," said Mr.. Plowden, "let
me reassure you. The first hairdresser you
meet will mend it all for half crown
and you'll probably, with false hair. look
better than ever" Everybody laughed at
this including the ferocious creature at
the bar But Mr.. Plowden said: Its no
laughing matter for you. You're regular
savage" and at once inflicted the full pen
atty.
WOMEN IN POLICE COURTS.
To see how often women figure i'm the
docks of London Police Courts is depress-
ing almost TO the point of despair. Some
mornings they pop up one after another
for a full hour. most of them as common
DRINKS. and often they have a grin on
their faces. One laughed persistently
that Mr.. Plowden said, why, how happy
you seem. If you're only as happy when
you're sober as when you're drunk, what
blissful life you must lead,' At this she
chuckled all the more. But she was not
so we'll known in that court as some are
and it really seemed as though she won
the magistrate over by her jollity. At any
rate he let her go with a reprimand.
Many are the cases in which young
women come to complain of recreant lovers
who, under promise of marriage, have got
possession of the girls hard earnings and
then decamped. when will women learn
wisdom?" asked a magistrate recently, ana
he didn't wait for an answer, but went
on to say, DAY after day cases of this
sort exposed in the newspapers, and
yet you women continue to allow your
selves to be swindled and duped." Be
fore Mr.. Plowden prepossessing
young woman appeared, saying that
she to have been married
next Sunday morning. "Oh, indeed" said
the magistrate. land which do you want
my congratulations or sympathy? Sunday
hasn't come yet" And neither, il trans
pired, would the Sunday of her marriage
TO that young man ever come for he had
left for another. she said. offering 30 pounds
as solace. Mr. Plowden-What an excel
lent offer. Applcant-But he won't give il
to me; he keeps putting me off. Mr.. Plow-
den-Are you willing to take the 80 pounds
instead of the husband? She thought she
was. and Mr.. Plowden's fatherIy advice
was. Then be gentle with him and take II
by installments'
One might easily have instanced cases in
which men figure III the police courts for
they greatly Outnumber those OF the other
sex and are marked by more foolhardiness
and brutality. But woman is always more
interesting than representatives Of the male
gender, even when she is in distress and
disgrace. and sometimes she is particularly
interesting owing TO her peculiar methods
of attack and defense. A Southwark mag
istrate said the other day. he couldn't un-
derstand IL. but passionate, violent women
when quarreling, ALWAYS tugged at each
others hair. Mr.. Plowden seems 10 have
studied the ways of the lower type OF the
sex little more deeply. In sentencing a
woman TO a months Imprisonment for spit
ting in the face OF a policeman, he said MS
experience as a magistrate showed him
that women employed three weapons. They
used their nails 10 their husbands their
hatpins 10 their lovers, and they spat az
police-constables, and the splitting he
thought was the worst.
HENRY TUCKLEY.