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EXPERIENCES OF FLAGELLATION
FLOGGING GIRLS
Discursive readers of weekly and monthly
journals, and especially of those organs
which are addressed to the fair sex, are
aware that correspondence is among their
leading features. Womens' papers are usually
half made up of questions and answers.
One may say of their patrons, as
of the people in the days of Noah, that in
these free and frank columns they buy and
sell, eat and drink, marry and are given in
marriage—for there barter-markets are established,
whereby the gentle merchants
exchange old music for ostrich feathers and
the like; there cookery recipes by the score
are asked for; while the love affairs avowed
