The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-02

| ana tNen TIE uedf poy ulinhs it hAe
a fish.
"Gee but feel fine" he says to him
self as he saunters out of the place.
| And
New he gets positively devilish.
| He stands on the corner and looks at
every woman who passes along the
street and follows any of them who even
so much as glances in his direction.
He is really gay.
| He ogles and eyes and flirts as long
as the dope" lasts, and then
| Why, he's got cents left, hasn't he?
Another 'dope.Y
He takes it and IS sufficiently invig-
Grated to last through the afternoon.
| And they call him mani
"God made him, therefore, let his pass
Then the s'masher" known as "the
mutt comes TO view.
There's no age limit to him-oh, no.
He stands on the street corners whit
ting stick or twirling a quarter round
ia his fingers, or, perhaps, soda water
check.
His time is spent in watching the women
get on and off the street cars.
He'll talk with anybody on the face vf
the green earth who will stop and talk
with him.
But
He'll never look at you while he's talk
ing.
Never,
His eyes are on the cars. and when he
finally spies some girl who looks Ike
there's hundreth part of chance for him
10 speak to her, he'll start and follow her.
ana just as he is about to catch up with
her and insult her by daring to speak,
he runs into somebody's real man. may
re- and his course is blocked and he loses
sight of the girl and there's nothing tor
Inn to do but get back to his old stand
on the corner and watch for the next
car.
He's moral coward from the word
go
The kind that will swear at central"
Or insult a poor saleswamon in a shop
when she isn't doing things the way he
wants them done.
"The old bum" is another type OF
masher'' that is such nuisance that
he ought to be driven from the streets
where respectable men and women have
to walk
He's the kind that stands in front OF
tarrooms and talks from morning until
night, using language that is calculated
10 shock the most hardened Of men, much
less women and girls, and he spits to-
hacco all over the sidewalks, regardless
OF cleanliness or decency.
There's still another type.
He's '.the blocker"
He's neither a tough molIycoddIe," "a
mutt or q bum" but sort OF broken
down. one horse politician. who stands
in the middle Of the sidewalk and gathers
UP anybody who may be passing and
blocks" traffic by standing and telling
his long-winded yarns to those who have
nothing better to do than listen to him.
-
eyes of young Tom as he paused in the
conversation that was taking place at the
breakfast table on account of ''masher'
having spoken TO his sister.
Are you aware" said the father Of
ihe family. that there Is an ordinance
against men speaking to women they do
rot know on the street, and do you
a mistake who Insults a woman, whatever
thu explanation he gives hinlselfy'
The boys looked at him In astonish-
ment.
He seemed angry-and with them. too
What had they done to make anybody
haul them up short like that?
ut does hurt a girl for masher to try
what you say" said little Betty pathetic
ally. "A girl actually gets afraid to GO
out on the streets alone.''
II can't see what excuse men make
to themselves for doing such things"
said Aunt Letitia. II believe it's all the
result OF mans innate depravity. the
natural frivolity of woman. the thrifty
watehfulness of the people who make the
styles and require women to dress SO
outrageousiy, and the everlasting perver-
stv OF things In general"
Up to the present time, grandmother
had kept sta- as she usually did In all
feminist debates. :. u
She did not believe = theeR