FICKLE FLORRIE.

NZ Truth, Issue 104, 15 June 1907, Page 4

FICKLE FLORRIE.

A "HARMY" RECRUIT.

It is not hecessarily &n offence for a woman to he sefch talking toime-n/; it is woman*^ pr^l-6gative to talk tp the brute >• l>ut 'i-fr. all depends where she talk's 'to Mm, a>hd how she does it, and when she does it. When the police testified at Wellington Police Court Thursday that Florence Jury hjsud been seen habitually talking to men, gravity was given to the statement by mention of the scene (which was Taranaki-street), the time (which was aiight), and the subject of conversation (which Was not about anything to eat). Likewise, she accepted cash, ami as cash is not given withouti value received m this oold, relentless world* the constables feared the worst. PMorrie's lapse into easy virtue is •of comparatively recent date, and she pleaded that she had been working for a Mrs Brown at ten bob a week. She was, 'however, unable to explain a young man m grey mothes who had made -her a present, ■■ and Other men, unspecified, wlio had paid sin-fully-inolined visits to the neighborhood of Mrs Brown's, or Mrs Blue's* or whoever the real or imaginary person might be.> S.M. Riddell. * Is.it' true what the constable has said ?— I suppose it's true. . . It was mentioned that the Harmy was willinp; to take Florrie, and lnaktV brr toil at nothing a week 'for the privilege of being reclaimed. She was sentenced to- three meaths' m the i Hattelttfoh Hemefi . . ,