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Show Go-It-Alone-Girls Club. The j'oung ladies of. New Rochelle, New York, tired of being compared to the clinging vine that derives support and countenance from alleged masculine oaks, and probably more tired of waiting for the masculine escorts who never come, have organized themselves into a "We-can-go-it alone club," and they do go it alone. They exclude young men from their entertainments enter-tainments and picnics, and advertise that during the coming winter they expect to have straw sle:gh rides, at which muffs shall take the place of coat sleeves as a means of keeping the hands warm. - - They have begun bravely. . It is said that one of the Go-it-alones accepted an invitation to accompany a young man to j an ice cream saloon, but insistea on pay- j ing for her own share of . the sweetmeats, j and when the young man demurred she promptly paid for his, too. They do not send for messenger boys to escort them to the theatre. The club just goes in a body, and as it is composed of all the pretty girls in the town, it does not need protecting or escorting. They go to the horse races in the same way. How long thiswe-can-go-it-alone fashion will last in New Rochelle no one is rash enough to predict. The bachelors of the town aro driven to the extremity of flirting with New York girls, which they do with some show of alacrity, in the hope that jealousy will cause the dissolution of the club in time. So far, however, there is no sign of weakening on the part of the We-can-go-it-alones. They are as saucy and indifferent in-different as a lot of little misses "just from school, and absolutely declare they are having lots of fun. Philadelphia Times. |
