THE POWER OF BEAUTY.

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 91, 10 June 1882, Page 195

THE POWER OF BEAUTY.

The curious episode iatlie Police Oourb, which, arose out of the arrest of a smart young lady by Detective Jones, on a charge of stealing a silk" dress-piece from Mr Danipier, and her subsequent release by the Bench after she had pleaded guilty, is suggestive of mingled impressions as to the glorious uncertainty of the law. The moral of the affair is that female vanity and a weakness for dress tempted the girl into dishonesty rather than any mere vulgar love of theft. Her lucky ■escape is said to have been largely owing to her good looks. Beauty in distress always appeals to the manly heart. Even the stern, official face of Pardy relaxed its muscles when he saw her in the toils ; and the susceptible lock-up keeper, when he handed over his fair charge, said, in accents almost of tenderness, as he swung the door on its hinges — '' This way, miss, if you please." A sympathetic Bench, looking with paternal instincts upon " sweet seventeen," could do nothing less than release the damsel, whose " Red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on." As for the professional feelings of the detective, on seeing his prey slip through his fingers, they were fully set forth in the following sohloqu'y : — " Well, no matter ! a stunnin' mash,. With a red-ripe lip, and a long eye-lash, And a figger sick as 'the angels owns, But one too many for this child, Jones." Tarantava ! taranfcara !