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Ladies Who Stole

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
June
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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We nafrurally have a very exalted opiniĆ³n of the aristocracy of our country and can scarcely be convinced tbat the ladies of society in the early days of independence conducted themselves in any hut the most digniiied manner. Indeed fiome of their descendants would feel highly elated to know that they in any wise resemble their snpposed courtly ancestois. It is to be hoped that they are not kin to the personages referred to in the following ccmplaint: One of our early statesmen actually complaina that " betsveen tippee beaux and fasbionable belies an honest fellow will stand a good chance of being fleeced by the politest tissue of inistakes conceivable. The gentleman will help himself very casually to your bat if it is better than his, take up your umbrella witb the most absent air imaginable, bear off your loose coat without once perceiving his mistake and piek upyour gloves, 'they so much resemble his.' " And now for the ladies' part in this proceeding: "The lady will borrow your penknife, very accideutally put your pocket bandkerchief into her muff or playfully take your ring from your finger or breastpin from your bosom, all as innocently as though it was the very thing you called npon her for, so that betweeu ladies and gentlemen you will stand a good chance of being turned out, stripped of all yonr possessions, accordins; to the

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News