. Theatrical and circus life;. hrown upon an opposite chair, and heleant over her whispering soft words and lookingfondly upon her painted face, while they clinked cham-pagne glasses, she with downcast eyes was playinginnocence, but all the while congratulating herself uponthe arch manner in which she had won him. Just as bad as the female masher on the stageis the female masher who has no claims on theprofession. The latter has studied her art perfectly,that it may assist her in throwing her net about theunsophisticated. Females of this class in the Eastmake it their business to frequent the
. Theatrical and circus life;. hrown upon an opposite chair, and heleant over her whispering soft words and lookingfondly upon her painted face, while they clinked cham-pagne glasses, she with downcast eyes was playinginnocence, but all the while congratulating herself uponthe arch manner in which she had won him. Just as bad as the female masher on the stageis the female masher who has no claims on theprofession. The latter has studied her art perfectly,that it may assist her in throwing her net about theunsophisticated. Females of this class in the Eastmake it their business to frequent the matiness, wherewitfa the assistance of the ushers, whom they remu-nerate handsomely for their co-operation, they gather agranger iu, and within twelve hours or so send himhome whining at his idiocy in not having resisted thetemptation that left him penniless. The gay sirenswho are in this business generally go in pairs. Theusher locates them next to their victim, and once theretheyve got him for all the cash he took out of the. MASHERS AND MASHING. 281 family sock before leaving Jerusha and his eight littleones. The blonde beauties of the leg drama, or the fairburlesquers, as some people call them, are consideredlegitimate prey by the mashing fraternity. Indeedit is often a case of diamond cut diamond, for the bur-lesquers are themselves notoriously liberal in makingacquaintances, and the majority of them will accept amidnight drive or a morning supper as readily as theydo the friendship of the gentleman who tenders bewildering array of limbs and shapely forms, thegolden hair and apparently fresh and handsome facesset the young swells wild, and the rash for orchestrachairs down front where a quiet flirtation can be car-ried on shows the great extent of rivalry that existsamong their number. Any number of scented noteson rose-tinted paper find their way through the stage-door into the hands of the giddy throng behind thescenes, and as they glance through it they laugh a
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