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Show TOUGH ON ' MASHERS. Those who would "ply the avocation avoca-tion of a flirt or masher" find little opportunity for that sideline of activity ac-tivity in the town of Abilene, Tex., if an ordinance passed by the1 mun;-cipal mun;-cipal authorities is strictly enforced. Quite a number of such regulations have been made in various cities and towns, but it appears that the Abilene fathers have tried hard to construct a model ordinance covering the offenses of-fenses sought to be suppressed. How j well they have succeeded may be' judged by the following extract from ! the law: "It shall be unlawful for any person per-son to idle and loiter on any street or thoroughfare, sidewalk, or alley, or in any store, theatre, motor car, motion picture house, or in the en-: (rare? or doorway of any place within with-in the crporate limits of the city of Abiene for the purpose of plying the avocation of a flirt or masher. "It shall be unlawful for any man in the city of Abilene to stare at or lake googoo eyes at, or in any other manner look at or make remarks to or concerning, or cough or whistle at, or do any other act to attract the ! attention of any woman upon or tra-, tra-, veling along any of the sidewalks, j streets, or public ways of the city of I Abilene with an 'n'ent or in a man-jlitr man-jlitr calculated to annoy such woman." j |