Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-28

d the town for fifty years, ''is more harmful to young women than it is to our young men, though the Lord knows. it is bane enough to our young men. It is different sort of harm though to the eirls-it unseXes them. The effect is not quite so bad in the lesser cities because they have less money, and the atmosphere is clearer Fut in New York and the New York eirls-well, when I think of the con- trast between some of the girls l know here and their grandmothers l used to know it makes me sick at heart for the generations who are toI be mothered by these girls, if, indeed, they eyer become mothers.
 'I am speaking now of the really rich girls who have all the money to spend that they want. For example, I know one g'rl of 25 who looks as if she were 40, and she has $25,000 3 year income. Not a great deal as ircomes go in New York, perhaps, but a good deal for one girl to spend on herself This girl goes the paceI of man, except that she is of good moral character, as We understand it, woman. She takes her dram when she wants it, which is about as often as moderate thinker among men would take his: she must have her dogs and her yacht-not a very large one, but large enougE-a1.l she has the n;.nners of man, an very near ly the masculine voice
 Docs she gamble? Of cou SC. I don't think I know a rich young wom an who won't wager something or other on the ponies, and most of them make it straight money. The begin rers, and the very sensitive, won't bet moray, but they'll bet what costs money. This girl was unusually hand some when she was 16, but she shows only traces of it now.
 T know another with $12,O0O year allowance from her mother who spends it all on her own pleasure, and she has become as coarse as a wash erwoman and talks like teamster. However, she does not use tobacco or liquor, though that need not be any sign of not going the pace, be- cause there is many a criminal and tough who neither drinks nor smokes, yet he is not quite pattern man for good little boys to emulate know any quantity of girls who swear pro. fanely, and still more who do not ven. ture beyond the mere dam heard a rich society woman, old enough to know better, curse at her coachman one night in front of the Metropolitan Opera house. If the coachman had used the language that lady did, he would have been arrested for disor- derly conduct. I don't say that the money made the woman vlugar and rrofane but l know that her mother would have cut her tongue out before she would have laid it to such lam guage.
 And the stories they tell. Good Lord, I've sat at a supper table in one or the finest houses in Fifth avenue with millions of money around me and heard young men and young women tell stories and howl with de- light over them that would redden the cheeks of a Carrara marble stat ue I don't say the money did it, but do say that I know many young women who don't have money in ex- cess, and they are not that kind.
 "The girl who has money must have something to do, and as the or dinary domestic occupations are cluse'! to her she must go to social advertisements to keep her mind and body engaged. The trend of society s to excess of some sort-no matter what is done it must be done to the limit-and naturally the girls fall in- to the customs of the people of whom they form a part. If they like horses they are not satisfied with a pair to drive and possibly one to ride, and have a man to look after them, but they want to own a drove and get in among them themselves, and talk horse and smell horse and act horse With dogs it is the same, and a dos girl will talk about the breeding of the animals and their disorders and their points in a way fit only for pro- fessonal fanciers and yoterinaries. If they take up atletics the s2me policy is pursued, and the girls are not sat isfed unless they Cut-nlan the men in all the courses of physical exercises