El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-22
Grating Girls the Meanest
Their Work Sends Many Men to Jail
Yearly; The Mans Fool,
She's a Devil.
BY Dorothy Dix-----

! - TOT LONG ago said in this col
NJ umn that I thought that the
- man who is entitled to receive
the Medal for the Meanest Man was
the man whose attentions were with
out intentions. mean the man who
/ lust to amuse himself and crafty his
vanity deliberately wins q girls affee-
/ ton, monOpoIizes her society, and
I keeps her from marrying some other
man. although he never has the slight
est intention OF marrying her himself
A man, who agrees with my esti-
mate OF the meanest man, asks me
whom ] consider the meanest girl in
There are many bad and wicked
women, many women who ruin the
lives Of men through their evil in
worse, or who does more harm than
the grating girl She occupies a fine
place in society. and considers herself
q model of virtue. and yet there is
many a bedrabbled woman of the street
who has n kinder and nObler heart
than she. and many a woman thief
serving her term in prison who is
more honest.
The girl CRATER is young. She is
pretty. She looks soft and tender, but
a marble statue has not less feeling,
nor less sympathy. She is determined
to have things, and she does not care
how she gets them nor what suffer
Her first victim is her father. You
Sc him often. A shabby, weary, worn
man, with bent shoulders, who tolls
FAR beyond his strength to supply his
grating daughter with finery. He is
being killed by inches to buy her
silks and satins, But the grating girl
is only trying her prentice hand on
father.
Of course the grating girl is always
on the lookout Tor some rich man to
marry, but in the meantime. while she
IS waiting for the mOneybags to come
along, she does not disdain small game
and there is no clerk nor booHskeeper
on small salary, so poor and so needy
that she cannot Wheedle something out
of him in the way Of present or
She can't talk two minutes with a
man without descanting on how she
loves the theater and longs TO see some
sitting in a box until she backs linn
up into a corner where he has to have
superhuman courage to refrain from
asking her to go with him to see the
The Christmas HoIdup.
When she has a birthday or Christ
mas rolls around, she holds up every
man she knows, and forces him 10
send her the expensive presents she
wants, and that she has already picked
out for him to give her.
And she's so subtle and insidious in
ner ways that the men who have been
I4ulcleQ never know how It happens
tn2t they are always sending her candy
and jewelry ana silk stockings, and
taking her to expensive places of
amusement. But she knows.
The grating girl is the meauest girl
in the world and here's one of the
meanest stories Of her meanness. and
it's true one, for I personally knew
all the people concerned in it.
AS fine z young fellow Os God ever
made fell in love with grating girl,
who was as beautiful of body as she
~ hrn
poor. but the girl played him along
because he was willing to supply her
with theater tickets, although he had
to half starve himself to do 10. One
day the two were walking UP the
street and stopped IN at jewelers.
TO get the boys silver watch that had