The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-14
TWO prsoRAcEruL EXAMPLES.

acted at the recent Goeiet-ttOxDurS Weu- ding, The Richmond Times-Dispatch says:
 Rather than go through with such an experience as that, we should think any self-respecting couple would arrange for quiet wedding. It Is a matter to be controlled by them. If they make osten- tatious preparations including the display of great wealth in tewelry and dresses and in flowers and other church decora- tions, they cannot but expect to draw big crowd, including many roughs and toughs.
 Surely something should be done. One statement says there were fully 10000 peo- pie, mostly women, fighting. scrambling and trampling each other to get a view of the bridal couple. Two hundred po- licemen in attendance were unable to pre- serve order, as we suppose they were not allowed to use their clubs. The spectacle of richly dressed women crawling under the canvass, like bad boys at the circus, and being dragged out by the heels by po- licemen, is not calculated to heighten our respect for New York's fashionables. If there is no other way to avoid such scenes let the couple go up and be married in a balloon.
 Seriously speaking. the conduct of the New York women was a disgrace to wo- manhood and to American citizenship Women stopped the carriage in which Miss Goelet was riding and "clawed the bride" as one account puts 1t. in their efforts to get their hands on her bridal costume. They crawled through coal holes to get into the chapel where the ceremony was performed, ruining their own gowns and in many, cases tearing the dresses from each other, Not satis- fled with this exhibition of mobocracy, they tore down and otherwise destroyed the ornaments the rare palms and orchids and other ornaments. and as the account states, "by the time the police had cleared the church every blossom had disappear ed and the massive palms had either been crushed or overturned in their boxes"
 It was the most slckening and disgust ing exhibition of morbid curiosity that we have ever read of among civilized people. And it must be borne in mind that It was not the hoodlums, the hoi polloi of
  the wealthiest and most prominent young ladies of that city to an English noble man. If there was ever a. time or an occasion when society should have been on it's good behavior, 1t was then and there. If there ever was a time when those who are supposed and expected to give evidence of good breeding and make a good impression on the public, not only in our own country but in England. 1t was then. But instead of this; instead of conducting themselves like ladies and showing the English visitors a sample of perfect and enviable American breed- ing, these women descended below the level of the s1ums. made themselves and their class the laughing stock of the world, and brought on themselves and New York society the contempt and dis gust of all good people. It was dis graceful, sickenlng exhibition.
 So much for New Yorks womanly epi- sode. To some extent 1t is equalled by an occurrence at a Girls High School in Baltimore. Because a Miss Baugert who had been detected trying to obtain infor- nation from another girl during recita- tion, and because she declared that what she did was just what other girls were in the habit of doing. we read the fol- lowing account of the sequel:
 Tuesday afternoon seventy girls lay for Miss Baugert at Eutaw Place and Lafay- ette Avenue. No sooner had she turned the corner than the girls were upon her. They scratched her face until the blood ran in streams. pulled her hair out by the roots, tore her hat to pieces, kicked her books into the gutter and then tried to rip off her clothing. Piece by piece section loosened 1t gave her freedom. and she ran for her life, pursued by the crowd. which had been augmented until 1t numbered 200 high school girls Miss clerks barred the doors. The bowling Am azons remained outside, hurling threats at their hysterical victim until the police scattered them. Miss Baugert is pros school. says there will be ali kinds of trouble for the rioters. The rioters range from 15 to IS years old. Miss Baugert is the daughter of J. B. Baugert, a wealthy manufacturer.
 Is 1t not discouraging, to say the least of it? Where Is our boasted civilization. our humanity and our Christianity If the women of the country, who should set examples of gentleness. of good manners and of human kindliness, are guilty of such excesses? Historians of the French Revolution tell us that the most virulent, the most fanatical. the most devilsh, to put 1t plainly, of the Paris mobs were the women of that city. In bloodthirstiness, in cruelty and vindictiveness, and in ev- cry excess that a mob could engage in, they were foremost. But these women belonged to the lowest class of Parisian society. They were the unsexed repre- sentatives of the lowest stratum of Paris, and 1t is not surprising that they were disgrace to their sex.
 No such excuse can be rendered for the episodes detailed as occurring in New York and Baltimore. The women and girls who engaged in the scenes to which we have referred would count 1t a mortal offense to be spoken of as common peo- ple." They doubtless claim all the ad- vantages of caste, and assume to them selves the privilege of looking down on the wives and daughters of working peo- pie. Does New York and Baltimore choose to regard these examples as fair representations of what is to be expected from their best people? And suppose the English people should criticise the New York episode with all the bitterness at