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In The Orchard
Of Forbidden Fruit
Ву
DON SULLINGTON
CHICAGO
THE NATIONAL PUBLICITY BUREAU
GRAD
HQ
..071
1915
COPYRIGHT 1915
THE NATIONAL PUBLICITY BUREAU
CHICAGO, ILL:
Price One Dollar
HALE · CROSSLEY PRINTINQ CO. CHICAGO, ILL.
CONTENTS
Chapter
Page
I. A WORLD'S PROBLEM UNSOLVED ..7
II. INIQUITY REAPS CALAMITY . . . 16
III. APPLES OF ASHES . . . . . . 28
IV. No VIRTUE WITHOUT TEMPTATION. 42
V. THE WILLING SLAVES OF MEN. . 52
VI. THE MAKING OF OFFICE VAMPIRES. 62
VII. PHILANTHROPY COMMERCIALIZED. 92
VIII. LOVE, MARRIAGE AND LEGALIZED
PROSTITUTION . . . . . . . 102
IX. NAMELESS BABES AND BABELESS
WIVES . . . . . . . . . 122
X. FROM THE CAFES CAME SHAME AND
DISEASE . . . . . . . .. 147
XI. THE MERRY MAGDALENS ... 162
XII. VIRTUE LIES IN LABOR'S ARMS. . 170
PREFACE
The actions of men are like the index
of a book; they point out what is most
remarkable in them.
What man knows should find ex-
pression in what he does. The only
value of expert knowledge is where it
leads to the performance of something
good.
As soon as the knowledge came to me
that a concise compilation of the Vice
question would be of material worth
to the community at large, both as an
educational means, and as a means of
warning the unsuspecting, I at once
put to the best possible purpose my
superior knowledge of the question.
In many ways nature has been kind
to me, as it endowed me with keen
preceptive powers, a retentive memory,
and mental vigor, by means of which I
have accumulated an amazing array of
general information on this rather
delicate subject.
The writer's intent was that the
book be clear and forceful, and not
contain needless repetitions or tire-
some circumlocution in its composition.
It was attempted to embody in each
sentence a resplendent order of wit,
wisdom, humor, and satire. What
success has been attained in that
direction is left with the reader to judge.
To a young newspaper woman friend
I must give some credit for able assist-
ance and sound advice. Who, but
a newspaper woman, could do it so
well? From the palatial home to the
prison cell she has interviewed woman-.
kind. She knows women as I know
men. Her faith in womankind, her
sureness of the uplift of the fallen, her
devotion to truth, caused her to per-
WOII
suade the striking from these pages a
telling truth she would not have you
know—the unveiling of woman's im-
modesty.
The object of this book is not to
amuse or entertain. I have aspired to
arouse public sentiment in the interest
of certain reforms. I hate sham, fraud,
hypocrisy and deceit.
I have made of Truth a whip with
which to scourge from the temple of
social purity every intruder therein.
I have joined no partisan scheme or
plan, but confident of my own ground,
stand alone in defiance of unclean
living, and thriving prostitution of the
elect and elite.
DON SULLINGTON.
CHAPTER I
A WORLD'S PROBLEM UNSOLVED
"More women sin for gay attire
Than sin through passion's blinding fire;
More women sin for want of gold
Than sin through love, if truth were told.”'
At least, that is the way that Ella
Wheeler Wilcox once wrote it, and I am
disposed to believe Ella. For she
always had a way of convincing me of
her superior knowledge of the doings
of humans in the love and sin world.
But, I cannot say, that this is to be a
love story, on the other hand, it is
intended as an explanatory sin story,
therefore, I will be unable to use Ella's
love theories and panaceas.
This is distinctly a vice story, and
is based on the theory of the Arabian
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Proverb, that, the willing contem-
plation of vice is vice. It is hoped
it may purify the moral atmosphere
somewhat by explaining the true situa-
tion as regarding immorality
Every age and nation have certain
characteristic vices, which prevail al-
most universally, which scarcely any
person scruples to avow, and which
even rigid moralists but faintly censure.
Succeeding generations change the
fashion of their morals with the fashion
of their hats and their automobiles;
take some other kind of wickedness
under their patronage, and wonder at
the depravity of their ancestors.
The martyrs to vice far exceed the
martyrs to virtue, both in endurance
and in number. So blinded are we to
our passions, that we suffer more to
insure perdition than salvation. Re-
ligion does not forbid the rational
enjoyments of life as sternly as avarice
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forbids them. She does not require
such sacrifices of ease as ambition; or
such renunciation of quiet as pride.
She does not murder sleep like dis-
sipations; or health like intemperance;
or scatter wealth like extravagance or
gambling. She does not embitter life
like discord; or shorten it like immoral
living; or harrow it like revenge. She
does not impose more vigilance than
suspicion; more anxiety than selfish-
ness; or half as many mortifications
as vanity.
The good make a better bargain,
and the bad a worse, than is usually
supposed; for the rewards of the one,
and the punishment of the other not
unfrequently begin on this side of the
grave; for vice has more martyrs than
virtue; and it often happens that men
suffer more to be damned than to be
saved. One vice worn out makes us
wiser than fifty preachers.
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Society is the atmosphere of souls;
and we necessarily imbibe from it
something which is either infectious or
salubrious. The society of virtuous
persons is enjoyed beyond their com-
solitude. The society or company you
keep is both the indication of your
character and the former of it. In
vicious society you will feel your
reverence for the dictates of conscience
wear off, and that name at which
angels bow and devils tremble, you
will hear condemned and abused. The
Bible will supply materials for un-
meaning jest or impious buffoonery; the
consequence of this will be a practical
deviation from virtue, the principles
will become sapped, the fences of
conscience broken down; and when
debauchery has corrupted the character
a total inversion will take place, and
the sinner will glory in his shame.
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St. Augustine teaches that there is
in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an
Adam. Our senses and natural pro-
pensities are the Serpent; the excitable
desire is Eve; and the reason is Adam.
Our nature tempts us perpetually;
criminal desire is often excited; but sin
is not completed till reason consents.
It is a most fearful fact to think of,
that in every heart there is some
secret spring that would be weak at
the touch of temptation, and that is
liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet
salutary to think of, for the thought
may serve to keep our moral nature
braced. It warns us that we can
never stand at ease, or lie down in the
field of life, without sentinels of watch-
fulness and camp-fires of prayer. But,
be it remembered, that the absence of
temptation is the absence of virtue.
But when you learn something of
another's shame and downfall, before
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you express your profound opinion on
the subject, thereby condemning some
unfortunate, be merciful enough to
say to yourself: “What, what, would
I do had I been in that person's
place?” Bring it to your own mind
and heart, mentally portray yourself
in the delineations of shame, tears,
public censure; then, if you are human,
with one particle of nobility in your
moral makeup, you will bow your
head and leave unsaid what you might
have said, and, certainly, your victim
will be in the hands of his Maker,
whose forgiveness is all that is needed.
I say this because of what has taken
place during the past few years, the
strenuous fight in a land to improve
its moral conditions. Immorality is
a monster, like unto that vile creature
which, when it loses one head, quickly
grows another. If politicians, civic
leaders, and the whole army of men
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and women from the religious world
troying that monster which has crept
over this old earth from the time it
writhed from the first dust of the ages,
they must know how deathless it is!
Waves of sound are endless. Still rever-
berates throughout space the Voice unto
the Serpent, “cursed art thou.” And
who can deny that the sin of this
country which knows little or no
abatement, is, indeed, this cursed con-
dition?
Temptation and disobedience! An
expulsion from Eden was no greater
punishment for an offense committed
there, than the human heart which
sins and trails on the soul the ball and
chain of deep remorse. It is to get to
those who heed not, who waver in
their fine resolves, who need moral
support, that so much is done and is
being done. But the rainbow of hope
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over a world of stormy strife, lacks
faithful promise, for the sin of prosti-
tution has not abated and what con-
ditions were remedied are suffering
today through the lack of a firmer
determination to kill not stun-this
evil.
“I wisdom have made my dwelling,"
is not thronged with many inhabitants.
A cruel injustice falls on so many when
we realize that, to a great extent,
the reformers are practising in private
what they condemn in public. Not
all-anything but the shame hurled
at the noble men and women who are so
earnest in this human uplift! But how
our faith suffers, how our confidence
is actually crucified, when we hear of
a certain chief of police who lives in one
of our first cities, having directed his
officers to make a clean sweep of the
immoral districts and, by a premature
discharge of such duties, the very
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officer himself was found in one of the
houses!
But it is not my desire or wish to
direct a malicious attack on would be
reformers; but it is necessary to have
more and better reformers, a work
to be done with sound sense and
reasoning, devoid of all possible op-
portunities for official graft, the weak
chain today in the link of circum-
stances and conditions.
CHAPTER II
INIQUITY REAPS CALAMITY
“He that soweth iniquity shall reap
calamity” says the Proverb.
To understand sin some persons
believe that all that is necessary is to
know that such and such are sins,
wrongs against God and civilization.
Unfortunately many have no more
idea of the extent of a grievous sin
than a child who first hears of sin for
some innocent offense. It is not neces-
sary to become a perpetrator to ac-
quaint onesself with conditions; but
it is necessary to study conditions,
and you can't get truth and every day
facts from a person whose mentality
has never extended beyond the top of
his mahogany desk. These desk
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IN THE ORCHARD OF FORBIDDEN FRUIT
writers and our eloquent silver-tongued
orators do expound great truths; but,
and here is the idea, if you want to
know the full extent of the crime we
fight, you must study it in the human
creature and the conditions surround-
ing his life after his offense. You may
make good guess-work of it; though
all the fine theories of an imaginative
brain cannot conceive of what the
old world has furnished in ages past
up to the present day which has
created a living Hell for men and
women, and the offspring.
Our earlier ages were unrestrained
by law or morality, and the female who
lived the life of a wanton was as likely
to be the lascivious queen of some
human monster, if not more likely
to be such than an unfortunate crea-
ture, such as we have today, the women
we would save, and the well-kept
pagan was beloved, worshipped, and
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frequently murdered or, as sin devel-
oped, set aside by a fairer conquest in
her wicked world. The home of harlots
was the home of wealth and the sin
we would crush today was not regarded
as a sin before the world was enlighten-
ed and the minds of men and women
turned to what is lawful and in
accordance with the mandates and
precepts of civilization and religion
- let one's creed be what it may.
Alexander conquered everything but
himself. This is a condition today.
Well we know from historical lore
that his march from Greece to India
was a drunken debauch. He burned
a two days' carousal. More pictur-
esque in sinful degradtion is that of
Nero on Lake Agrippa, whose shores
were edged with porches, filled with
women of rank and nude courtesans who
debased themselves to the first comers.
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Caligula spent $50,000 on a single
supper. Nothing more debasing or
revolting can be imagined than that
feast which was as cunningly devised
as if the devil himself had played
caterer to the scene. Indecent
pictures, suggestive ideas of immorality,
disgusting scenes of unmentionable
deeds were so remarkable for the super-
lative of outraged morals that its
history has not been effaced from our
classic literature, though we wonder
why, in this struggle for purity, it has
any place in literature, though it
certainly contains one moral-always
the right moral, that it was sure to
reap its harvest in death-or worse.
Caesar Augustus at a supper de-
liberately took an ex-consul's wife
from his side into his room. The
dishonored pair, perhaps innocent and
drunk-but innocent through ignor-
ance, returned to complete their feast!
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TOT
Babylon had her orgies; Egypt was
ever the scene of drunken and immoral
festivities. Every city of foreign note
gave evidence of this one great and
terrible sin. When Chicago learned
of it, it tried to embrace every sin that
the old world had ever suggested, and,
if you are a devotee, perhaps you have
been somewhat original in improving
on what is partly to be forgiven,
knowing, as we do, that those days were,
indeed, the Dark Days. Yet, even
then, history records the pathetic
stories of true virgins who rather than
live the unwholesome lives preferred
by queens and ladies, died by their
own hands—but, listen—such deaths
have been rare.
Do you want specific information of
the sin that takes place in Chicago
or any other city, big or small? Make
the rounds of the streets, go into the
hotels and cafes on any evening,
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say Saturday or Sunday. What will
you see? The streets thronged with
pleasure-seekers who sing and shout
and stagger along, dragging their frail
male or female friend with them.
Cafes are filled with light and laughter.
The bright lights, the flowers, the
beautiful women are scenes to attract
almost any man, particularly a lonely
man or one who is friendless in a great
city, and miserable for human com-
panionship. The lure draws him as
surely as the sun draws water from the
earth. Every creed, class and con-
dition are represented. Some are
familiar with society's ways, and those,
let the truth be known, are often of
the real social world, and their money,
their liberty in public, their purchased
pleasures are the greatest factor for
leading souls astray that the city must
combat, for when was there a time
when we have not had our aristocrats
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and their pitiful followers? Others
are breaking into the game and are
drinking their first glass of champagne,
while the grocer and tailor bills remain
unpaid. This class represents the will-
o'-the-wisps that flutter to the bog
instead of the pot of hidden gold, and
the great army is made up mostly of
innocent girlhood.
To satiate the body with strong
food, stupify minds with drink—fre-
quently drugs—to defile the lips with
obscene stories, is one scene. Eyes
as fiery as the cigarettes they smoke,
men and women dance like satyrs, and
with the abandon of bacchanals, until
low-cut waists and high-slit skirts are
brazenly and deliberately permitted
to show and advertise for sale the
charms which should be kept concealed.
Possibly you are innocent of these
conditions. It is hoped you are. You
may have been a light offender, pro-
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bably a mere on-looker. It is few men
who know nothing of these conditions.
You say you do not wish to see them or
know anything concerning them. A
modest, spineless wish. You may save
yourself and you may protect your
sisters and some of your children; but
there may be one girl, possibly the
flower of love in your heart, to whom
this picturesque scene of revelry will
strongly appeal. Other men's fair
daughters have danced along the same
way. And, when you stop to meditate
on it, do you really, and truly know
your own child? Yes—but not the
moral nature. You do not know that
—you only think that you know it.
Remember that; for this is the fact
that is a hinge to the story which
strongly binds you to your child and a
living condition in life to which you
are morally obligated!
It calls for no imagination or fairy
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story to give you real data. I know
of nothing that better illustrates just
what I have told you than this pathetic
story. Several years ago a man of the
world, one who has sipped all the
dregs from Life's wine cup, went into
a fashionable cafe one New Year's
night. He had not been drinking.
He was preparing to do so. His
companion was a man friend. He
expected to join his own family who
had engaged the table many weeks
before the date of this night of revelry.
New Year's night is a solemn night,
or should be. The devout pray, while
the brawlers, careless of what the
year may bring forth, ring bells, sing
songs, dance, make merry, and that
is innocent amusement until the senses
totter under the wild desire to Hell
it out! Not a nice term, is it? But
that is exactly how it is spoken.
Don't read a line more if this offends
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you. Why be ashamed of the truth,
when you need to know the truth?
Our man of the family did not know
the truth. He was to learn it. He
went into the cafe and laughed at the
scene before him. His wife was not
there! His table was unoccupied. A
beauty, half nude, at least indecently
clothed, was dancing on a table, kick-
ing wine glasses and roses to the floor.
Men were drinking, laughing and
shouting. Women were radiant in
artificial pleasure. But where was the
daughter? He roved around, went
first into one place, then another,
passing men and women sitting on the
floor, and stepping over the prostrate
forms of young men, drunken before
midnight. Then, in a cloak room he
found his girl, dazed and drunk, lying
in the arms of a paralyzed drunkard.
With a scream and an oath, he sprang
forward, caught up his little girl, left
passit and stepe men, arloak fooriving
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the cafe, never to return to it again!
His wife returned home, escorted by a
friend of his who was sober enough to
get the woman home, let the hour be
ever so late. And, listen to this,
you will find this same scene year
after year, worse or better, go where
you will. It will repeat itself again
this New Year!
Now do you see any obligation on
your part to the city where you belong?
There are other night scenes. The
old rounder is ever present, and is
usually accompanied by a youthful
maid. Boys, teetotalers at home, make
fools of themselves; girls who are re-
puted modest, appear in scanty attire,
drink, leer and talk in a way to break
a mother's heart. Here and there are
the painted women whose keen eyes
stab, whose vampire lips suck life-
blood, whose tresses are winding-sheets,
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and bodies the graves in which honor
and purity are buried.
God made youth to enjoy itself,
when it recounts the Past and hopes
for the Future. But many had better
dressed in a shroud, clasped hands
with a leper and kissed a hissing viper
than dress, drink and debauch as they
do.
Too bad! Vice is first cursed, then
caressed. God's good things are abused
and not used and Sin spoils all, ruins
the body, enfeebles the mind, lessens
usefulness, strengthens bad habits to
become greater sins, stains the memory,
undermines self-respect, and destroys
the soul!
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CHAPTER III
APPLES OF ASHES
The Egyptians had mummies at
their feasts to suggest death. At these
modern, foul and unmentionable revels
it might well suit the occasion to seat a
skeleton at the head of the table to
scare the sinner and cloy the epicure
who one day will occupy his place.
High life is often low life. It is the
refuse of time ripe for eternity, and its
class needs the Gospel as much and
more so than the so-called lower class.
Sin leaves a red trail, and the fruits
that grow by the highway have the
tang of Dead Sea ashes on the palate.
Karma pursues and exacts a penalty.
The Masquerader, Death, leads the
dance, crowns the midnight bowl,
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laughs at the merry-makers, then drops
his mask and they “start, stare and
despair."
A dying king dreamed that he would
be royally met on the shores of the
Great Beyond by a beautiful woman
and led to a throne. Instead, he was
welcomed by a horrible hag who
leered and laughed at him. When he
recoiled and asked who she was, she
replied:” I am your sins and have
come to live with you forever.” Only
a figure of speech—but, oh, how true
its meaning!
Three years ago the officials of
Chicago listened to the foolish theory
of self-appointed purists, who promised
to improve the moral atmosphere of
this splendid city, by substituting
scatteration for segregation. A mis-
branded movement styled “Reform"
swept over the city and segregated
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vice districts were closed and their
inmates scattered throughout the city.
As a result, the best residence dis-
tricts in Chicago have been infested
by refugees from the immoral precincts.
Hotels and rooming-houses shelter
them as they ply their trade in secret.
Street-walkers find easy work in
theatres, cafes and other public places,
including the post-office and railway
stations. Plenty of opportunity is
afforded lewd women of the half world
to flaunt their charms before the eyes of
school-boys and young men. And many
a boy who would not think of visiting
a questionable resort is, in this way,
attracted, contaminated and, in many
· cases, started on a life of vice and
debauchery by the experienced women
who have been driven from their
former haunts to make their living
on the streets. Youth and ignorance
are the wanton's first choice.
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The great trouble with some, not
all, of these fiery reform movements
is that they are conceived in the minds
of persons who are agitating reforms
from a theoretical standpoint, and, of
course, such must be impractical. Re-
formers are not infrequently "society
slummers" looking for interest thrills,
maudlin excitement, if you please. A
self-appointed reformer either knows
his work or else he knows nothing con-
cerning it, and the latter class, in
many instances, has not understood
conditions, one reason why the feeble
efforts have failed in creating results.
Too often they are able to influence
or excite an ambitious official into
thinking he can do great work, and
incidently acquire some notoriety
They succeed in breaking up a district
where the evil is segregated and the
conditions which result against these
attacks are much worse, as is proven,
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than they were before. The city evil
is deserving of human sympathy, in-
asmuch as its greatest strength lies in
Nature.
What is meant by the social evil?
It is commonly understood to be im-
moral conduct, a violation of the laws
and custom intended to regulate the
procreative passion. The evil is pro-
bably as old as society itself, co-evil
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self, goes not back to a time when
statutes, confessedly human, or pro-
fessedly divine, were capable of con-
trolling the fierce fires that blaze
within the blood—when all consuming
Love was cold Reason's humble slave,
and Passion yielded blind obedience
unto Precept. This vice is no respec-
ter of person, but “Society” classes
are mercifully spared—with their
money.
Properly policed segregated vice-
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districts is the greatest safeguard to
young men and young women that
any community can give until such
times as it is possible to destroy this
condition. The average woman of
low character knows her place in
“the district” and generally away
from it. Often she is more modest
than the foolish schoolgirl in the same
place! When she comes to the city
where there is a segregated district
being no such place for her, she now
goes to the hotel, the rooming-house
or flat, and secretly plys her trade.
It may be days, weeks or months
before the police is aware of her
presence; then she simply moves to
the next community and proceeds as
usual.
In one of our northern cities a few
years ago, when segregation' was
abolished, and the “Madames” scat-
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tered, an unoccupied apartment ad-
joining that of a most religious county
official was leased by a wealthy and
handsome “Madame," and “her girls."
The daughters of the official and these
girls became very friendly and their
identity was revealed by a detective
who, one day, saw "the girls” and
the officer's daughters together in a
theatre box, merrymaking!
The underworld receives new recruits
every day. If it were possible to
reform men; if it were possible to keep
men morally clean, there would be no
necessity of attempting to reform
women. The women would remain
clean. Every time a woman goes
wrong - some man helps her! She
can't go wrong alone. It is a sad
commentary on manhood, but it is a
fact, nevertheless, that the average
man demands illicit relationship with
the opposite sex. We can't uphold
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this condition. We would, indeed,
destroy those unpardonable privileges,
yet, as a fact and, even as a means of
present safety, when there is a segre-
gated district, it is seldom that prosti-
tution is carried on as a business in
any other point of the city.
This, you know, has been a subject
always handled with kid-gloves. Not
until doctors, physicians and nurses
threw up their hands in utter despair,
and such literature as “Damaged
Goods" and the like were encouraged
by these physicians and surgeons,
were we ready to admit that the results
of evil are so death-dealing, so life
destroying, that the public press had
to advertise it-HAD TO ADVER-
TISE IT, to save the nation.
Every “nice" magazine was con-
demned at the start for speaking
plainly of “human nature,” and prud-
ish parents were deploring the fact
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that“unwholesome literature’’invaded
the sweet, clean papers, books and
magazines. Then came our public
schools, our learned men and women
throughout the land who know that
the only safe means of saving youth
from sinful careers is to publish facts,
not theories, and also must it be taught
in our temples of knowledge throughout
the land.
The supply of public prostitutes is
apparently limited by the demand,
while the number of “kept women” is
constantly increasing. So long as the
better class of men and women in
higher social stratas will receive these
fallen sisters and make social devotees of
them as soon as they become a “sensa-
tion" or when they get before the
public as “victims of men's perfidy”
with, possibly a murder or two in the
case, just so long will judge and jury
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be deaf to their evils, and society
will send them flowers.
Do you pity the public wanton?
Of course you do. But what burns
deeper than the red-hot brand, than
the knowledge that one of these women
is known to destory a good son-not
one good son, but many. The yawning
grave receives the victims yearly. Like
human lepers they pass you on the
street, sit at tables near you, go where
you go, meet your friends, and become
a part-of-your-very-existence.
It is said to be startling in its truth-
fulness the great number of “kept
girls” in a city whose parental home is
in the same city! Nor are these girls
from the homes of the lowly. They
are found in boarding houses and
fashionable hotels, and only God knows
their motive, for certainly the mothers
do not understand these strange
daughters who forsake home, father,
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mother, brothers, sisters, religion and
friends to live lives of such utter
abandon to moral principles that it is
little wonder one despairs of reaching
them, especially the girls
If, despite all the safeguards of the
law and the restraining force of religion,
society continues this evil, if, with our
clearer insight into this condition with
our advancing civilization, courtesans
increase in number; if, with our boasted
education and the pride and help it
promises us, women of respectability
grow less chary of their charms—if the
necessities of poverty and the luxury
of wealth breed these species, is it
.not reasonable to suppose that some-
thing must be radically wrong in almost
all classes of society?
So much has been said concerning
the society woman who not only
flaunts her beautiful charms before
the youngest male guest at her banquet,
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but who likewise gives him drink,
that society has long been regarded
as the fountain-head and the real
source from which this wickedness
issues. Boys, just budding into man-
hood, our future men and fathers,
mistake the social code for the real
and only social life to pursue. In
these homes of wealth and luxurious
surroundings, where they meet fair
butterflies of fashion, with everything
on their backs and nothing in their
heads, they quickly become a prey to
these young females who, many times,
- are only wealth-protected wantons.
And, if there be sweet chastity in this
assembly, what more can it hope for
than to gradually fall to the level of
the men who debauch themselves,
morally and mentally, then finally
become husbands for such as the pure
girl.
Last December a young girl, the
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daughter of a wealthy financier, was
wedded to a young man who, while
not wealthy in his own right, is the
son of a millionaire. The wedding was
notable. Assembled in the magnificent
home was the best of society. After
the wedding, or during the festivities,
a young lady guest smiled into the
face of her man escort and said: “We
have had a delightful time, despite
the fact there are no drinks." He
turned to her and said, "It is the most
sacred wedding I have seen in twenty
years. I know of nothing more pathetic
than our modern weddings where
Love is debased by a lot of drunks.
My God, my God, can't you girls
furnish us better sights than that?”.
It is a pleasure to say that the bride
and groom of this beautiful event, by
their combined religious natures, their
first decided stand-pat idea for what is
the right beginning in holy wedlock,
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have set an example that is being
followed by many others, those who
dared not do it, fearing the censure.
Yet this drink is furnished elsewhere,
and if man is difficult to control in
placid nature, how much more so are
his chances of falling from grace if his
veins are fired with intoxicants! You
tempt him, then condemn him if he
insults womankind.
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CHAPTER IV
NO VIRTUE WITHOUT TEMPTATION
Do men prefer the plucked fruit of
the fruit stands to that which hangs
in the first flush of its own fresh
beauty in the dewy orchard of Youth?
Not much. The dearer, the fairer,
the purer your child, the greater does
it offer sweet temptation. Few men
turn from a fascinating Venus to watch
a little cash girl, walking down street
with a bundle under her arm. Not
a student of Nature will tell you that
“goodness” attracts a man. It may
please him; but when did it attract
him? The very ministers of our gospel
who have defiled the cloth have done
so more through immorality than all
other crimes in the category of crimes.
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Why? Simply because he is human,
that he has the weak link of human
passion in his physical makeup, that
all his prayers, creeds and fine logic
cannot save him against the female
who attracts him unless he is so
strongly fortified against this “neces-
sary evil” that he is—a power. Those
are the men, if they can withstand
temptation, who, really are the greatest
power for good, for their lives are
attuned unto the spiritual, and if
there is no salvation in this age
through the power of religion, one
may as well say: “Throw open the
gates!"
It is amusing as well as pathetic to
see some howling reformers. They go
forth to “wipe out the segregated
districts. They return home, wipe the
sweat band of their new hat, and tell us
the city is clean! Clean of what?
Certainly not of this evil which is
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human nature reduced to lust, through
a mode of living that precludes the
opportunity to wed, even if marriage
is desirable, and all the grand pos-
sibilities for the better and more
perfect life, are drawn down and into
the quick-sand of human degradation.
Prisons are full of crimes committed
in the name of this sad offense. Go
into any of our large cities where they
have homes for unfortunate women
and their fatherless children. There
you will find the low, ignorant girl
with her hapless babe; near her is a
sweet-faced child-mother, the once pre-
cious daughter of a good mother,
driven from home in her shame by an
angry father, sheltered by charity
within the shadow of her own beautiful
girlhood home. There you will find
the girls whose names they will not
reveal; but who have, often, come far,
hoping to hide their shame. And
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little injured child-mother, you find
a still lower class, a type of diseased
woman, who, when cured, goes right
back to her infamous trade! Some-
times a girl is rescued; but so often
is it that a girl regards her disgrace as
the unpardonable one that, if she
fears suicide, she becomes, hopeless
and careless, and a careless woman,
the victim of man's perfidy, will ruin
your son and laugh in your face. She
has done it. She will do it again.
Beautiful women, stamped with the
public seal of shame and weakness, have
done more harm in retaliation toward
mankind than the world ever knew.
Degraded womanhood, when it does
sink, sinks to a serpentine level, and
the red tongue that plays between
lips that once were fair and virginal,
is a viper's head.
Can these women be saved? Yes,
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saved in the flower of their virginal
youth. But to save them it will take
more than books, lectures, mother's
love and prayers, and more than
human strength can stand at times.
You are not going to work against an
ordinary sin when you go forth to
fight a sin that means death and
destruction. You have ever to re-
member that the physical makeup
of every man and woman is just-so
strong.
Virtue is not the lack of temptation.
Virtue is temptation set aside. If
there be no moral fibre in a young
person's physical makeup, more dif-
ficult will be one's work with that
person. How important, then, that
fathers, not always mothers, should
instill into the minds of their boys the
fact that their son's bodies are not their
own bodies, but the temple of Christ
in which the young soul is kept. A
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1
boy does not understand this. Even
the preacher cannot make him under-
stand it. He comprehends only a
physical condition; and here is where
a father can give to his son the best
lessons of life. And it won't be in one
lesson or several; but it will be in the
love and the guardianship of father
and son from the boy's infancy until
that boy is a man and takes a female
companion into his own life.
Any brothel, let it be ever so fasci-
nating to a youth, will destroy his
finer sense of fitness where women are
concerned. Many men never go to
them. They know the fear and the
danger. But those men are, if any-
thing, worse than the frequenters, for
their prey is within the sacredness of
the home. So here is where mother
and daughter play the part for the
purity of the home. Here is where
anxious motherhood honors her child
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and—God pity her-never knows who
may ruin all the work of her love and
years of untiring effort to support a
noble cause in the soul of her daughter.
Danger? Yes, worse than danger, a
precipice over which Virtue is hurled to
death and, often, to damnation!
When you see the ragtime dance, do
you see where it leads to? Possibly
an evening's innocent pleasure, and, as
likely quite the reverse. Street walkers
and those others who ply hotels and
rooming-houses invariably flock to the
big city where the segregated dis-
tricts are broken up. That is why
Chicago is filled to overflowing with
female prostitutes. They know before
they come that the reformers who have
caused "scatteration” have played
something into their hands. How dare
one offend a modest appearing woman
in the hotel, cafe, railroad station?
Not always is she gorgeously attired.
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There is something noticeably attrac-
tive in rich, fine raiment of a plain
and studied pattern. Modesty itself
was never more carefully gowned than
some of these female vampires who
are unrecognized by the desired victim.
This type may meet your innocent
girl today or make friends with the
good wife. Humanity may be ever so
careful; but it is a clever one who is
not deceived by the woman whose
wits are a part of her character in the
underworld.
The official report in many places,
where they wish to scatter these
segregated people throughout the city,
is to make more and worse prostitutes.
This evil has flourished since the day
that Rahab hung out the scarlet thread
on the walls of Jericho, and all the rant-
ing, theorizing, reform-wailers in the
world have not to date been able to
wipe it out.
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You can't reform society from the
bottom; you must begin at the top.
Man, physically considered, is merely
an animal, and the law of his life is
identical with the laws governing ani-
mal life. Continence in man or woman
is a violation of nature, a sacrifice
made by the individual to the necessity
of law and civilization. The whole
plan rests on one given point—wedlock.
Men and women should marry. It is
God's plan. Unfortunately, there are
conditions in many lives which pre-
clude the marriage state. This brings
before us the class who, if not sinning
through premeditated sin, are the
victims of human nature.
For long ages woman was but a
creature for man's caprice, the drudge
or the ornament of his home. As the
the world advanced and matter was
made more subject for mind—as Divine
reason wrested the sceptre from brute
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force-woman began to assume her
proper place in the world. She has
stepped forth into freedom and is
realizing for the first time in the history
of her race that she is a moral entity~
that even she, and not another, is the
arbiter of her fate. And, unfortunate
indeed, this freedom earned so sorely,
is regarded as a license to greater
freedoms.
CHAPTER V.
THE WILLING SLAVES OF MEN
Women inhabiting disreputable
houses are only a small percentage of
girls and women living impure lives.
The statement that the “White Slave"
traffic has placed more than 200,000
women in the United States in the toils
of sin is as huge a joke as was ever
perpetrated upon the American people.
There is scarcely a glimmering of
truth in many of the stories of “White
Slavery."
There are comparatively few girls
in the United States today in houses
of illfame who could not walk right
out if they desired. They want that
kind of a life and will scoff at the
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reformer and even kick him out if he
does not get out when asked.
I agree entirely with that St. Louis
editor who said “white slavery” is
"largely a matter of choice” that the
reports of such crusaders as young Mr.
Rockefeller,” is “only the same old
red herring drawn across the trail
of privilege''-his vice crusade a phi-
lanthropic butterfly chase to net the
maudlin.
That women are exploited com-
mercially, made the slaves of panders
to an extent that would make the
virtuous young Mr. Rockefeller des-
perate, that they love their slavery,
extol their masters and display their
chains with pride, is known of all men
and of all women for that matter;
but the young working woman who
courageously declines slavery-for there
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jugation-knows that she will be scorn-
ed of her sisters.
The worst part of this slavish pro-
pensity is that it not only prostitutes
womans highest intelligence, but kills
that desire within the heart which is
the most sacred function of woman-
namely motherhood. It is the vice
of our time. If young Mr. Rockefeller
desires to tackle a proposition that is a
crying evil, let him tackle the office
prostitute – and may the gods give
him joy.
The young working women first
become slaves of fashion and then the
slaves of men. Men are often slaves
of fashion too, but, in the multitude
of men, how many such are to be
found? A fashionably dressed man
excites comment-if he overdoes it,
as a few clothes racks do-ridicule.
And with man devotion to the cut of
his clothes passes as he scuttles down
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the years. But with woman it is
different. Does age wither or custom
stale her insatiate longing for the
infinite variety of the very latest?
And does she not get it in this era when
styles change with every change of the
moon? She will sacrifice anything in
order to be suitably gowned.
The sacrifice! Time, patience, tem-
per, not to mention beauty and taste-
all go to make up the disintegratory
force of it on character. And when
woman is draped in all of fashions
garb, is she satisfied? Not while plate
glass windows reveal other gowns,
perfectly ephemeral things draped on a
form entirely dissimilar to her own;
not while professional models walk
up and down modiste's studios to
demonstrate how perfectly lovely the
thing is. She wants that gown, too,
and she gets it, even though she has
to become a "slave" to do it,
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A prostitute of Paris entices an
artist to construct for her a daring
costume that accentuates her every
physical attraction, deletes her every
defect. She shows herself as is the
custom of her trade. The artist's
work for her particular personality
tells. Immediately press and camera
are brought into requisition, merchants
compete to secure duplicate patterns
of the marvel and, in a space of time
incredibly short, replicas of that cos-
tume, making women ridiculous in
that the costume was not designed for
them, appear on the streets of far
cities, towns and villages. For “white
slaves" love to show themselves in the
market-place.
For a more pitiful procession, stand
on State street, Chicago, or any great
retail shopping street in any large
city, at the noon hour, when the
great stores are emptied of shop-girls.
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Notice how suitably those girls are
dressed for their vocation—that cheap
finery, the effort to be in the prevailing
fashion. And if you study the pro-
cession at intervals of time you will see
the fashion change pathetically. At
what sacrifice? It is enough to make
angels weep.
Underneath this madness for clothes
lies tragedy, confined not to the shop
girls about whom so much has been
recently written, but to women in
higher positions in business life.
Young business women sell themselves
for gaudy raiment the world over, sell
themselves to labor, and to men.
The lamps of the red-light district, and
of districts discreetly obscure, are
lighted by the willingness of working
women to enslave themselves to man.
Much has been written and voiced
as to the necessity of women entering
trade--much is maudlin. Take out
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of trade the women and girls who enter
it solely to procure stylish clothes and
better conditions will prevail for the
women whom necessity, not vanity
drives there. For, be it known, that
among the working women are a vast
number who are not eager to deck
themselves in finery and join the
“white slave" Parade.
We have before us today a type of
woman who is worse than the woman
who is publicly regarded as one of the
“bad type." It is the female, usually
a beauty, who sells herself soul and
body to the highest bidder, for the
mere sake of tawdry trappings to
bedeck her body. Nothing so im-
portant in all the world is presented
to her narrow mind as the mere desire
for the praise of men who admire her
physique, her beautiful garments, her
general appearance of the “stylish
companion” most men are proud to
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escort where-God pity them—they
would not be seen dead with the
ordinary decent and respectable girl
who does him less social credit. We
have that strutting peacock of a man
who couldn't see beyond a satin frock
and a string of pearls if you gave him
second sight, or endowed him with
Divine sight. He wants other men to
envy him. He has the opportunity to
see his wish gratified. And you take
the woman of this type, generally the
love pirate of some rich man's office,
and for a time, often a long time, she
can do more with five yards of blue
satin, a handful of glass gems, and a
few loose morals than a good wife can
undo in a life time. As soon as she
tires of her tiresome old lover, or when
his checks are not just what they
should be, she shrugs her shoulder
and moves on.
How can you reform these women?
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Here you have a type to whom
morals are devilish. Women in the
underworld often remain there for the
sake of a mere livelihood—and that is
less than the majority receive - but
what of this better kept woman whose
influence actually creeps like a red-
hot flame into the sacredness of a
man's own home? The private secre-
tary in many instances isn't private
about anything. Do not think this
refers to the honest and noble women
in this field of labor who are doing
honorable office work. It refers to
the “kept woman" who comes to the
office when she pleases and leaves when
it suits.
All men are not to be censured for
keeping such women when you under-
stand the truth in the matter; for there
are wives of these rich potentates who
are wives only in name. A man
wedded to a society woman who lives
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a foolish, idle, life, who absents herself
from her home, who has no children
of her own and loves no one else's, is
the wife of today who drives love from
her home and sends “pirates" into her
husband's office!
The quickest and surest route to any
man's heart is through the channels of
love and sympathy. No other route
carries a woman to a man's heart.
She may try them all; but a man is
so devoid of happiness if denied these,
and so easily are they obtained in the
artificial life, that he goes the way,
taking from life the living lie, knowing
it can't last, hating himself for his
sham, praying, at times, to free himself
from it, and a man may as well try to
lift his own soul into heaven with
his own hands as to think he can save
his moral self in a half respectable
liaison of this kind. He must be
clean, morally, or become an outcast.
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CHAPTER VI
THE MAKING OF OFFICE VAMPIRES
I recently came into some facts on
this subject, which may be interesting
to some readers, and revolting to
others..
A young Southern woman named
Lydia Kerry is the “Secretary” of a
man about twice and a half her age.
This "gentleman" is a financier and
a respected citizen. Although strewn
along his pathway of life are the
ruined souls and despoiled bodies of .
numberless young women. Lydia is
his last and at present one of his
most willing victims.
This young woman was born beneath
the sometimes sunny skies of the great
moonshine state of Tennessee, of poor,
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but honest, parents. Lydia grew up an
impulsive, neglected but beautiful child
of nature. A liberal diet of sweet
potatoes, corn cake and peanuts, assist-
ed on its onward course by gourds of
clabber and an occasional taste from
a moonlight still, quickly developed
her lissome form, and running barefoot
over the hills in joyous sport with the
young mountaineers, gave to her a
majestic carriage which Juno might
have envied.
Thus the years sped on as years are
wont to do, until an unkind fate
directed her footsteps to Memphis.
Lydia was ambitious and scorned the
clumsy advances of the wide hat boys
of her mountain town. In the city
her youth and beauty attracted men to
her. She yearned for the glamour of
wealth, her soul mounted above her
plebeian position. She met the Chicago
man, conquered him, and he offered
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her a position as "private secretary,"
although she knew not a Pitman charac-
ter from a war chart.
So the task of her undoing was easy.
Her new employer bought her hand-
some jewelry, and gave her a thousand
little attentions so grateful to woman-
kind. And all the while he waited
and watched with the stealth and pa-'
tience of a panther for the psychological
moment to arrive when he could, with
safety, bring his prey to earth.
At last he has her firmly established
in his office den. He plies her with
wine, and with her body aflame, she
responds. She bends low and whispers
upon his lips, her breast throbs and
her breath beating upon his cheek,
sinks into his blood like the essence of
poppy juice. A handsome girl. Not
the beauty of ancient Rome, on which
we gaze as upon some wonderous
perfume plant wafted from an Elysian
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forest, but the sensuous beauty of
the South, that casts her magic spell
upon the hearts and souls of men
In the arms of this experienced temp-
ter this young girl's whole nature is
transformed. From a sweet, innocent
girl she becomes the impassioned un-
controllable fury of desperation and
desire. Her eyes are not longer those.
of a dove that illumes the pathway to .
heaven, but scintillating fires that
point the way to hell. Her lips are
not blossoming rosebuds, dewy as
the morn and pure as innocent child-
hood, but the scarlet red of a body
consumed with flame. Her throbbing
breasts are not like young fawns that
feed among the flowers, but marble
spheres impurpled by the fires of passion
and tinged with the sunset's glittering
gold. The ancient lover softly strokes
her loosened curls that stream like
silvery storm-clouds over the well-
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formed shoulders, he takes the hands,
heavy with the gems he bought, back
from her face and holds them in a grasp
so fierce that the beaten gold bruise
the tender flesh.
This girl of the mountains, whose life
had been lived among the birds, the
fiowers, the trees and men whose educa-
tion though not great, their honor
was strong, knew not that the hour was
at hand when honor and woman-
hood were to be snatched from her
keeping. The office swims before her
eyes and everywhere she saw bowing
demons welcoming her to the regions
of darkness; her girlhood modesty weak-
ens and resolves vanish beneath the ac-
cursed magic of her lover's kisses that
fall upon her lips; reason departs as
her blood becomes seething wine and
rushes through her heart of fire. Then
the bowing smirking demons turn to
white winged angels and lay upon her
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burning brow a wreath of fragrant
flowers-she is afloat upon a sea of
happiness studded with brilliant dia-
monds, beneath a moonlit sky, the
perfumed wind carrying her to a
distant port of which she neither
knows nor cares.
Like all temporal pleasures, prompted
by passion, the angels and the flowers
proved but a dream, the feverish lips
and bruised bosom, the womanly pride
grovelling in the dust and girlish
honor wounded unto death these alone
were real. With an outburst of South-
ern temper, a cry of rage and shame, a
cry that is both prayer and curse-a
cry that rings and reverberates through
the great office building like a maniac's
wail heard at midnight among the
tombs-she throws herself upon the
carpeted floor sobbing and moaning
because of the loss of the greatest
of God given prizesher honor.
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Is there sympathy in this lover's
heart for this little ruined mountain
girl? No, but there is fear of detec-
tion, and, quivering like a coward
looking upon his death, he tries to hush
the grovelling victim at his feet, and
she wails but the louder and prays the
Gods to curse her conquerer. The
employer lover glances remorselessly
at the girl, once so superior in her
pride, now cowering, a thing despised,
her jewelry and fine clothes her only
recompense for her shame.
But as the night turns to day, and
the sun casts its glittering rays over
the vast wicked city, Lydia's spirits
rise and, like many of her sisters, she
accepts the inevitable and at the usual
hour next morning wends her way to
her master's office where she is still
ensconsed in the chair of the “Private
Secretary”—for, be it known, Lydia
still retains her personal beauty.
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In the lexicon of youth and beauty
there is no word that carries the
destructive power as does the word
“flattery." Men find it more easy to
flatter than to praise. And flattery
is the death knell to virtue, as no man
flatters the woman that he really
loves. When a young woman meets
a vile flatterer the devil goes out to
lunch, and that is the dangerous
crisis in that young woman's life.
So when the young and beautiful
Rose Martelleau accepted the position
as “Confidential Secretary” of the
Vice-President of one of Chicago's
vast corporations she at once became
the recipient of reams and reams
of flattery. She was told that she
was beautiful as Rose of Sharron, as
dainty as Cleopatra, as brilliant as
Laura Jean Libby, that she was the
acme of all graciousness —and she
believed it.
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Beauty is often worse than wine,
intoxicating both the holder and be-
holder, but, like an almanac, it scarcely
ever lasts a year. Socrates called
beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato,
a privilege of nature; Theophrastus a
silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful
prejudice; Carneades, a solitary king-
dom; Aristotle, that it was better than
all the letters of recommendation in
the world; Homer, that it was a
glorious gift of nature; and Ovid that
it was a favor bestowed by the gods.
I say it's hell—not to have any.
Rose Martelleau, the innocent beauti-
ful child of nature, lasted as long as
two almanacs, and then the wine, the
late hours, the joy rides and general
dissipation began to speak warnings to
the fair beauty. As Rose's health
failed her beauty waned. The girl
who previously could bedazzle and
beguile the sons of men, now only
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partially amused them, even at times
bored them.
The Vice-President could not toler-
ate a complaining, ailing “Confidential
Secretary” and, as Rose had no means
of support, he aided her in securing a
new position-with a friend. She held
this position for a few weeks and was
again shifted. She struggled on for a
few months against insurmountable
odds, and then gave up. She died
within three years after accepting her
position as “Confidential Secretary”
to a Chicago “gentleman'' --who makes
it a practice to hire young and beautiful
“Confidential Secretaries."
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But Private Secretaries do not all
wither up and die, I beg to state. Some
grow fat and prosperous on the job.
That is the case where the employe
dominates the employer. Those are
rare cases, but in the business world, as
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well as in the gem market, it's the rare
jewels that are prized most high.
Della Blend was a country maid,
born out among the crystal lakes of
Minnesota. She came of sturdy stock
and from her earliest youth dominated
her brothers and sisters and playmates.
She was ambitious and, as soon as
she acquired the first rudiments of an
education she cast about in search of
something which might provide a prom-
ising career. To aid her in her
efforts and to more firmly establish her
efficiency in the field of commerce, she
perfected herself in stenography and
typewriting.
Our first glimpse of Della is as the
Private Secretary to the Manager of
a Utilities Company in Minnesota's
metropolis. For the good of the
service, or for the financial benefit
of the corporation, officials of large
concerns which deal with the public
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are frequently shifted from one city
to another, depending on the extent
of their usefulness and ability to
"fool” the people.
Della's employer was shipped to a
large Eastern city, and Della also
shipped, for, be it known, Della had a
good thing, and she did not propose to
lose it no matter how often or how
great the flight. This employer of
Della's is either a good manager or a
bad organizer, for within a short time
he is again transferred to the world's
greatest money-making center, Chicago.
Della is also transferred to the world's
greatest money-making center.
Fate has dealt kindly with her,
as she has accumulated both flesh and
finance. True, she is not much of a
beauty, it is said, but what she lacks
in that which attracts the admiring
eyes of men she makes up for in brains.
She finances the whole Blend family
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affairs, and it is whispered about that
she directs the investments of her
ancient employer.
Della has achieved success in the
business world, but she has lost some-
thing that the wealth of Chicago could
not buy, the privilege of wifehood and
motherhood. She has accumulated
money, but money is the devil's bait,
and those whose minds feed upon
riches recede in general from real
happiness, in proportion as their stores
increase; as the moon, when she is
fullest of light, is farthest from the sun.
There is one name which I can
never utter without a reverence due
to the religion which binds earth to
heaven-a name which to men should
be the symbol of life, cheered, beautiful,
exalted and hallowed—and that is
the name of wife. A good wife is the
rainbow in the storm of life. In the
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war, to err but once is to be undone
forever.
Business women who have been the
office slaves of men make poor wives,
if they ever reach that estate in life,
for the reason that they are too
worldly. Women like Della Blend, for
instance, who have been commanding a
large salary would not be attracted
to a man unless he is a man of
affairs. And men of affairs are not
attracted to the “Private Secretaries"
of other men of affairs, for the reason
that they might be accused of poaching
on someone else's preserves. And that
is bad ethics among business men with
“Confidential Secretaries" so it can
be seen that an “attached” business
woman is doomed to live her last
days with her regrets.
Della is the real thing though, for
she has an apartment of her own,
or someone else's. Anyway she is
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managing tenant and lives what is
called a "bachelor" life. True, her
employer is said to be almost a daily
caller, but I can't see where there would
be much excitement in that, as
eight hours in a private office each
day with a man nearing the goal of
three score and ten ought to take the
glamour off of most any kind of a
case. But maybe the old gentleman
is a good samaritan and is keeping
the tempters away from the buxom
Della. Is Della a slave to man, or a
slave to greed?
* * * * * *
As I was seeking material for this
story I met a young woman who to my
knowledge had held various and sundry
positions as “Private Secretary” to
what is termed “Big Men.” I in-
duced her to talk and to tell me
something of her positions and em-
ployers. She looked at me first scorn-
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fully and then pityingly and replied.
“Were you not such a fledgling I
would be insulted by your request,
but, as it is, I am only amused by your
ignorance," I can sum up the whole
“Private Secretary” business in one
word-Kisses.
“If a girl is young and pretty she
must submit to be mouthed and
mumbled whenever the boss feels so
inclined—and he seems to be always
so inclined.” She stopped for breath
and I kept quiet, this struck me as
good dope, then she again proceeded.
“I stayed with different men just as
long as I could tolerate them. But,
as the Moor of Venice intimated,
there is such a thing as being entirely
too much of certain things, so when
the kisses became too plentiful I
resigned.”
This girl's name was Caroline
Morganon, and five years ago she was
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voted a prize in one of the newspaper
beauty contests—a plan which I might
add has ruined the life and career of
hundreds of modest young girls-she
was swamped with letters and pro-
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of work. She preferred work first and
marriage afterwards; she is not now
equipped for either.
After listening to this young woman's
story I must confess that, even after a
variegated experience of some thirty
odd years, I was surprised and shocked.
Think of an innocent young girl
having to submit to the kisses and em-
braces of some drunken beast of an
employer, simply to hold her position!
What position in life does it leave a
woman in? Does it not kill her pride
and sentiment? A woman should be
almost as chary of her lips as of more
gracious favors.
A sensitive gentleman would as
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soon accept a bride from Boiler avenue
as take to wife a vestal virgin whom
every lecherous libertine with whom
she had come in contact in a business
way had kissed. Why a modest
woman, who has done nothing more
than try to earn an honest living,
should be compelled to kiss her em-
ployer is a puzzle.
A kiss should be a sacred thing—the
child of a love that is deathless. It
is the benediction of a mother, the
pledge of a sweetheart, the homage of a
wife. Promiscuous kissing is a casting
of pearls before swine, a brutal pros-
titution of the noblest and holiest
rite ever practiced by the human race.
It is a flagrant offense against all that
is noble in man and modest in woman.
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But, not due to the lower instincts
of man are all “white slaves" brought
forth, some connive to attain that state,
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as was shown in the case of Kala
Wheaton, a comely girl whose home is
on the north shore of Lake Michigan.
Surely the madonna-faced woman
bears the index of all that the soul
must contain. But here we found a
type whose very beauty was a mask
to hide the deepest deviltry that
could invade the heart of a human or
destroy the sanctity of a home. Whether
Kala went into the business world
with a pure heart, reflecting the in-
nocent face, or whether environment
led gradually to her downfall, is not
known. One thing is sure-to what-
ever depths she fell, she had the in-
stinct of the female temptress that
rejoiced exceedingly over her victims.
It began in the office of a man, one
who was kind and gracious, seemingly.
As his home life was unpleasant, he
made friends with the sweet-faced
girl. Quickly and happily grew the
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friendship which developed into a
peculiar affection, then the final result
where her honor meant nothing to
her and less to him. They drifted into
the sea of difficulties and cared not for
the shoals. Then came the wife, plead-
ing for a good wife's right. The girl
laughed at her. This woman, a wife
of rare honor and respectability, failed
to touch the heart of the wanton who
so ruthlessly had destroyed her home,
so the wife returned to her girlhood
home, bereft of love and companion-
ship, her whole life destroyed by a
madonna-faced temptress. Later a di-
vorce ended the union.
The man met with business failures,
and after a time he, too, left the city,
thus throwing the girl out of his
employment and “keep.” She found
other employment; but having known
the artificial pleasures of the glittering
life furnished her by the man, she was
Union.
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unable to live as formerly, so began her
siren wiles on the new manager. How-
ever, in this instance, she failed of
conquest. Just why is not known;
but for the sake of some decency to
the story, let us say the man was too
honorable.
Kala, like most women who have
passed the thirty-mile post, is not like
wine, whose charm improves with age,
and somehow even a Raleigh would
hesitate before wallowing in the fra-
grance of faded flowers, contemplating
ancient paintings and absorbing sweet-
ened frost — the old maid's market is
so overcrowded that they sell for a
song, with a canary bird thrown in to
supply the singing.
Think of a woman whose charms
have grown mellow beneath the summer
suns of some thirty odd years, standing
in the aisle of time “in maiden medita-
tion fancy-free” peering coquettishly
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m
into the surprised faces of creation's as-
sumed lords, silently offering herself
for a trial to the first taker for about
the price of a railroad eating house
sandwich-and seldom any takers. Oh,
manhood, where is thy blush; Oh,
chivalry, where thy shame? The ped-
dling of self by old maids with damaged
reputations and unclean bodies are
suggestive of the devil's auctions held
in days agone in Chicago's variety dives.
These remarks are not intended as a
reflection on maiden ladies who have
preserved their honor and reputations,
but only for that class that are ever
like the devil, fishing for sinners with an
old sun-bonnet, fishing for men, and
offering bruised lips and defiled bodies
in payment for a good time or a home.
A recent interview with the worldly
Kala, brought forth this startling state-
ment. “I am utterly disgusted with
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and prayectable table ho
nail
and pray for now, is to marry some nice
clean respectable young man who will
give me a comfortable home."
During my interview we were inter-
rupted by the unannounced entrance
of two of her "best" lady friends,
Both were little and old, and showed
that the horologue of time had long
since passed them in their struggle to
retain their youth, for the drug-store
bloom displayed its pristine brightness
in their dry and wrinkled faces. Jauneta
had but a minute, as she could not
keep "Jack" waiting. Jack, I learned,
was a married salesman whom Jauneta
was strenuously trying to steal from
his wife and children. When Jauneta
stopped for breath, Mercedes the other
member of the trio came forth, and
with a burst of pride and eloquence
displayed a diamond ring that “Pop"
had sent her. “Pop," I was later
advised, was Mercedes “angel" from
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up state. He was “awful” good to her
and never “bothered” her but once
a month or so when he came to the
city.
There they were, the three of them,
in a supposedly respectable rooming and
boarding house. The old saying seems
to hold true, that “birds of a feather
flock together," and all the while
the innocents are coming in from the
country and settling down in “respect-
able” rooming and boarding houses
—that permit gentlemen company in
young ladies' rooms. With such as-
sociates, can you wonder that innocence
and goodness are so rare! Impure
women, like impure apples, contami-
nate the pure.
Where do these women seek their
prey? In the winter, around certain
dance halls, cafes, skating rinks and
in the "movies.” In the summer on
the outer edges of the crowds in the
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parks, displaying their busts and backs
in the sand piles of the bathing beaches,
and in the new "mashing invention"
the Jitney-bus. The “rooming-house
hound” can often be seen with these
unattached floaters. They are also
the kind that flock to the “fortune
teller” and resort to the matrimonial
ads, as a last and forlorn hope. They
become old men's darlings—for their
bank-roll, and whatever else they can
relieve them of. This class of derelict
female is the most dangerous in the
world, as they operate entirely within
the law, and their conscience is so
elastic that they imagine that they are
eminently respectable just out of luck,
that's all.
But to return to Kala. What is
the future for her? Her unholy as-
sociation with the married man would
damn her socially; surely it has blithed
the flower of innocence in her very
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being; she can't be womanly, for she
has not lived womanly; but lives there
a man, any man, good, bad, or indif-
ferent, who is likely to become the
final victim of this woman? What
would be his life in her keeping?
What sort of children would be the
result of this union? Would the fol-
lowing of a path that leads in and out
among the murdering abortion doctors
make for decent motherhood? Yet
these vampires are not unusual. Alas,
they are so plentiful that no man can
really say that his own sweet-faced
daughter is not one of them! That is
broadly speaking, of course, though
the vampire class that preys on the
married man, this parasite that sucks
the very blood from the veins of civili-
zation is not always sitting in men's
offices, but you may find her walking
calmly to church with the prayer-book
in her hand, or, else, singing in the
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choir, her voice mingled with songs
of praise to her-Master! She lives,
she exists, she has tramped the earth
since the first dawn of creation. Who
is she? What is her mission? Why
must she exist? Oh, you who love
honor, purity and goodness, live well,
marry, rear your children. in holy
wedlock, shun abortion, live for God,
the home and pure love, and instill
into innocent minds the noble and
honorable purpose of love, wedlock and
children.
Some of these women are received in
a certain tolerant or blind society.
When it shuns them they become so
desperate that they are reckless, not
so much of themselves as the victims.
Something of the madonna tenderness
remains. It has been found in the
faces of old hags who have died a
wretched death after a life of “con-
cealed” prostitution.
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There have been beautiful women
over whom men have raved. The
smile of a certain "lady," meant social
favor on any man who received it;
her frown was his downfall! She
swayed the hearts of all men. Suicide
was the result in some cases. One
man was ready to slap the face of
another man who dared to doubt her
virtue. These men egotists felt them-
selves to be the favorite lover. She
maintained her relationship on that
footing with reserve and dignity-so
much for the power of beauty. But
her last feast was in a garret and her
last meal was a mildewed crust. Men
had died for her, the beautiful des-
troying angel of human love! “For
Sale” has so often taken the place
of madonna-like beauty that, unfortu-
nately the stigma of dishonor really
rests on the loveliness of many pure
girls until their innocence is established.
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Love prays. It makes covenants
with the Eternal Powers. It is aroused
in endearments and rises from one
gradation to the other, but always
upward and onward if it is to thrive.
this God-given love than the old
couple going side by side down the sun-
set hill of life, leaving behind them the
memories of a perfect love, a happy
home, their children, and the little
world made up of their combined
efforts to live nobly and well and, as
near as possible, in accordance with
the Divine plan intended for them.
* * * * * *
Then there is the other kind of
"white slave,” the professional kind.
The kind that induces “Daddy" to
buy wine, to write fool letters, to take
her to hotels on trips with him, and
then rises up in all her virginal anger
and demands a large sum of money to
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insure her silence. “Daddy” usually
pays, but sometimes he don't, then
there is a large sized scandal, at which
“Daddy's" wife stands agast and suffers
more than either principal. The Mann
act ought to be revised so as to provide
hanging for the professional "white
slave” as she is as great a menace
to society as the murderer.
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CHAPTER VII
PHILANTHROPY COMMERCIALIZED
At the White Slave. investigation
held in Chicago, in March, 1913,
many scandals were disclosed in con-
nection with department stores and
mail-order houses. I could not, al-
though I were as vindictive as Ther-
sites, and gifted with the vocabulary of a
Carlyle, do justice to the cause of young
women starved into prostitution by
their honorable "millionaire employers,”
men as honorable as Brutus. When
the President of one of the large
mail-order houses, a concern which
has used its millions of wealth to com-
pete with legitimate business through-
out the country, was put on the rack
by Lieut. Gov. O'Hara, and asked
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point blank whether or not he thought
low wages had anything to do with
vice-he stuttered, and stammered,
became excited, grew red in the face,
nervous of body, and finally answered:
“N-0-0-0," in an inaudible whisper.
And what of this President, this
Chicago Merchant Prince? Why, he
is one Chicago's "greatest philan-
thropists” and most public spirited
citizens—the head of one of the greatest
girl sweat shops in the world. Under
oath he admitted that he employed
4,732 women-119 girls between the
ages of 15 and 16 years receive on an
average, salary of $5 per week; 1,465
girls receive a salary of less than $8
a week. This man admitted that
his concern made a net profit in 1912
of more than $12,000,000.
There he sat—the envy of no man.
The sleek, well-fed philanthropist. A
man who gives thousands and thou-
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sands of dollars to so-called charity.
Thousands and thousands of dollars
he spreads broadcast with prodigal
hand and substantial newspaper notices.
Money which has been wrung from the
aching and emaciated bodies, heavy
hearts, and faltering souls of the
female help employed by this mam-
moth mail-order concern.
No wonder the State of Illinois was
called upon to investigate the conditions
of its working girls and women; as
countless thousands of little girls be-
tween the ages of 14 and 16 toil in
department stores and mail - order
houses for starvation wages. Children
denied the protection of home, the
privilege of school, the teaching and
environment that make for better
womanhood and prepares them for
motherhood-starving and slaving their
lives away; wrecking health and spirit,
and dulling their moral sense, while
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this President and his crowd admit
piling up twelve millions of dollars
profit in a single year. Shame on
such philanthropists; shame on the
State or States that will permit thou-
sands of its little girls to become the
victims of the greed of these philan-
thropists; to be ground to pieces in-
tellectually, physically and morally,
under the wheels of selfish business,
when the law should throw a strong
protecting arm about them and direct
their young foot-steps towards the
school house instead of the sweat shop.
Is a man, capable of directing a
business which will bring to its owners
a profit of $12,000,000 in one year
incapable of determining the relation
of low wages and vice? Does any sane
person believe, for one moment, that
this man does not feel, way down
deep in his heart of stone, that hunger
and want and ceaseless hopeless yearn-
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ing for just a little of the good things
of life, and rest to the tired mind,
drive the craving body and faltering
spirit of the working girl over the brink
of shame?
Philanthropic employers of little girls
at starvation wages may go on piling
up millions of dollars, but their path
of business success will always be
strewn with the wrecks of womanhood
and virtue. Giving alms that were
secured at the expense of children's
souls is, indeed, a hollow charity. If
the donors of ill-gotten gold would
build fewer monuments to their own
memory, and help save a few of the
young girls in their employ, their
chances might be brighter when they
come to cross the river of death.
Everywhere in the city the working
girl is battling with want, while our
"philanthropists” send Bibles and
blankets, prayer books and pie, salva-
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tion and soap, large donations and a
big committee in a private car, to
visit a job-lot of lazy niggers whose
carcasses are not worth a Buffalo
nickel in blocks of five, who wouldn't
walk into heaven if St. Peter was
asleep and the Golden Gate stood
wide open, but, once inside, would steal
the eternal throne if it were not spiked
down.
Advertising, did you say? Yes, I
ere
Catalogue. But I would rather see
the whole black and tan aggregation
short on Bibles, than to see one white
child crying for bread. The streets
of Chicago Swarm with able-bodied
beggars; young men mostly, whom
want often drives into crime. Human
life is cheap; men are slain in the prin-
cipal thoroughfares for less silver than
led Judus to betray Christ. Young
girls are sold to shame, and from
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squalid attics comes the cry of starving
babes.
Not only that, but men, women and
children in ragged clothing and worn
out foot-wear, with empty pockets and
hungry stomachs, are begging for a
chance to work, begging for a job in
some factory, packing house, any-
where and everywhere—but in vain.
The city is over-crowded and work is
to be had only at a premium. Not only
is the city over-crowded, but it is over-
populated and over-developed, and like
all human developments-travels ever
in a circle. Immorality and license,
barbarism and ambition, civilization
and sybaritism, dudism and intellectual
decay; then, once more, immorality and
license proclaim the complete circle.
And yet this world boasts of its
great philanthropists; men who em-
ploy vast numbers of toiling mankind,
and reap large profits from their efforts.
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Business, as well as society, is swept
by the breath of lust and reeking with
wretchedness, the hope and prospects
of moneyless young men are crushed
out by greedy grabbers for gold;
abortion and prostitution is commer-
cialized and mail-orderized; the sanctity
of the home is drugged with wine and
wealth; the divorce vies with the
criminal courts in points of business.
Thieves, grafters and fakirs abound.
The slimy fingers of greed hide beneath
white silken robes, hypocrisy and
drunken revelry are the companions
of wealth.
Under such conditions-Poverty and
Depravity — can one wonder at the
number of suicides! True, it is the
coward that commits self-murder, after
all blandishments of life are gone.
Suicide is a most revolting crime, nor
does' any reason suggest itself to our
understanding by which it can be jus-
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tified. To die, in order to avoid any-
thing that is evil and disagreeable,
is not the part of a brave man or
woman, but of a coward; for it is
cowardice to shun the trials and crosses
it is honorable, but to avoid evil.
But to hang, poison, or drown
onesself is not the only means of
suicide. The person that destroys a
healthful constitution or body by in-
temperance and dissipation, debauch-
ery and unhealthful indulgences is in
the sight of God just as much of a
suicide as the despairing prostitute
who drains the poison bottle while
the cruel pangs of remorse are break-
ing a weakening heart and weakening
mind.
It is said that remorse is beholding
heaven and feeling hell. It is the
echo of a lost virtue. There is no
future pang can deal that justice on
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the self-condemned, he deals on his
own soul. Frauds, crimes, remember-
ances of the past and terrors of the
future, these are the furies that are
ever present to the minds of those
trembling on the threshold of death-
Suicide.
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CHAPTER VIII
LOVE, MARRIAGE, AND LEGALIZED
PROSTITUTION
Love! He touched the secret of our
souls who said: “Love. All other
pleasures are not worth its pains.”
Each is a celestial soul unto its true
mate! The introduction to this felicity
is seldom alike in any two pure love
affairs. A girl may love and marry
her boy classmate, or her neighbor,
while her sister's love call is like the
trill of the bird that sits on the topmost
bough, calling, “Sweetheart, Sweet-
heart, Sweetheart," and the reply
does not come for years, then, more
than likely, it sounds like an echo from
some far distant mart-lives intended
to blend in the perfect union of love
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in wedlock, but how often, oh, how
often, the least divergence from the
rightful course will change the whole
destiny and happiness of two lives.
There is a certain divine rage and
enthusiasm where love is mutual and
desirable. Certainly it establishes
marriage and we naturally regard its
most perfect beauty, in a sense of
romance, when youth holds sway;
though statistics prove that early mar-
riages, while promising fruitful results,
have not been proof against great and
tremendous disappointments. But
'round the real lover the muses sing.
All that can be said of marriage in
youth is that the lover who sees his
fairest picture in early years, will lose
some of it later; he who knows it best in
later years, will miss much of the
beauty of earlier joys when innocence
is blended with love and-ignorance.
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reject the philosophy of the older man
and woman, and abhor their philosophy,
but all, let it be known, travel happily
to their own Court and Parliaments of
Love, so it might seem that, at some
time, love must be our portion, real
love, whether it ends in wedlock or
ethereal dreams.
A little incident occurred a few
years ago which is not devoid the real
touch of love's romance. A school
teacher found a letter speeding its
way from hand to hand in a school
room, hastened from lover to girl
sweetheart. Naturally any written
communication is not permitted there,
and especially is this true where letters
are exchanged in the school room.
She told the story in this manner:
“I rushed forward, caught the letter,
then turning to my pupil, a young
man of seventeen years, I said: “Ben,
you know the rules of this school. I
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shall read your letter to the whole
school. He came forward, held out
his hand for the letter and asked me
kindly to return it, saying that he
would not disregard my rules again.
I did not return the letter, but I put
it in my desk. Later I read it. Never,
to the best of my knowledge, have 1
read anything purer, nobler, grander,
than the love confession of that boy
for the little girl. It was an inspira-
tion. His young soul was wandering
in a world of love and romance! There
was nothing gross in the tender words.
It was as pure and hallowed as the
love call of a man who would marry his
girl sweetheart. I destroyed that let-
ter. I was, indeed, a love iconoclast,
for that summer the young man died.
I believe that I destroyed something
that was a part of the real love which
was to be his small portion on earth.
I have recalled that as the worst
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mistake I ever made in my class-room
for I am certain that was to be his
ideal love."
All romances worthy of notice have
not ended in wedlock. History is a
melancholy feast of narratives to make
the very soul weep, for great love too
often has known the deepest sorrow
and we who cherish the ideal wonder
why.
Love leads to marriage, or, at least,
we so regard it. It may have establish-
ed itself through finer ideals in the
lives of our educated men and women
though marriage rites, crude as heathen
rites, were solemnized purposely to
establish nothing more nor less than
ownership of one's companion! The
procession of the soul had nothing to
do with it. Frequently, as is evidenced
in many places today, not even the
bride had any authority to say one
word against what might be a loveless,
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undesirable, wretched marriage. Ro-
mance was unknown, but man's master-
ful power, the slave-owner instinct, was
a law unto itself. Just what the women
of these tribes endured is not known.
Revolting, indeed, is the thought to
all good women, of rearing children in
wedlock to an unloved mate, and we
know that marriage, whether romantic
intended for the propagation of the
human species. Children born of love
unions are generally happy natured,
while children born in strife are not
happy, and even where - there is no
wedlock, when the mother has borne
her burden of shame and grief, she
most always imparts to her luckless
offspring a certain melancholy strain
from her disturbed brain. The vege-
tation of Love naturally represents
our highest type of civilization. A
soul that dwells in clay sees no flowers,
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pearls, poetry—the endearments of a
romantic dreamer who would have
music, song and love!
There are probably one million of
women in this land living lives of
legalized prostitution; who conceive
children in hate of husbands they
abhor, bring them forth in bitterness
of spirit to be reared in an atmosphere
of discord-offspring stamped from
their very inception with the die of the
criminal or the courtesan.
Yet the “Reformers” view with
alarm the vast increase in the number
of divorces; are weeping and wailing
because women will not suffer in
silence a bondage that is bestial-a
prostitution pre-eminently the worst
in the world, that of a loveless marriage.
Day and night the doleful jeremids go
up from these pious pharisees that the
laxity of American divorce laws is
imperiling the morals of the people,
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sapping the home and threatening to
topple our entire system into ruin
irremediable.
When we see the avaricious and
crafty taking companions to their
tables, and their homes, without any
inquiry but after their financial stand-
ing; or the giddy and thoughtless
uniting themselves for life to those
whom they have only seen under the
glare of electric lights; when parents
make articles for children without
inquiring after their consent; when
some marry for heirs to disappoint
their brothers; and others throw them-
selves into the arms of those they do
not love, because they found themselves
rejected where they were more solici-
tous to please; when some marry
because their servants cheat them;
some because they squander their own
money; some because they are pestered
with company; some because they will
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live like other people; and some because
they are sick of themselves, I am not
so much inclined to wonder that mar-
riage is sometimes unhappy, as that it
appears so little loaded with calamity;
and cannot but conclude that society
has something in itself eminently agree-
able to human nature, when we find
its pleasures so great that even the ill
choice of a companion can hardly
overbalance them. Those, therefore,
that rail against divorce, should be
informed that they are neither to
wonder or repine, that a contract
begun under such principles ends in
such disappointment.
Foolish "Reformers" appear to be
harboring the hallucination that where
divorce is not difficult, husbands and
wives are taken on trial; that matches
are made just for amusement or to
gratify a prurient passion, and that
women pretending to respectability
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as men of the world do their mistresses;
also, that where it is next to impossible
to break the marriage bond, it is
regarded with greater veneration and
entered into with much greater caution.
Doubtless a few roues and adventuresses
might make a business of marrying if
divorce could be had for the asking,
but it is an insult to the better class of
American women to suggest that any
law could so demoralize them that they
would deliberately wed men with whom
they did not expect to pass their lives.
A great proportion of the wretched-
ness which has embittered married
life, has originated in a negligence of
trifles. Connubial happiness is a thing
of too fine a texture to be handled
roughly. It is a sensitive plant, which
will not bear the touch of unkindness;
a delicate flower, which indifference will
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watered by the showers of tender
affection, expanded by the cheering
glow of kindness, and guarded by the
impregnable barrier of unshaken con-
fidence. Thus matured, it will bloom
with fragrance in every season of life,
and sweeten even the loneliness of
declining years.
Marriage is holy only where there
exists mutual love and respect. Such
unions do not need to be reinforced
by strict marriage laws. They mean
much more than a “civil contract;''
they mean devotion unto death, and
would stand unshaken if every law
known to man should perish from the
earth. Only such unions should en-
dure. All others are unholy and un-
clean-civil contracts to commit a
crime against posterity—and should be
dissolved. Those who protest so
bitterly against divorce, who would
compel people to live together after
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love has flown, appear to think the
marriage ceremony a thaumaturgic in-
cantation which sanctifies debauch-
ery, a modern correlative of the ancient
rites of Bacchus.
The number of divorces has, indeed,
become appalling; but this is but a par-
tial suppuration of the sore. It argues,
not that divorce laws are lax, but that
society is rotten. Martial misery can-
not be decreased by denying it relief.
. If a woman does not love and honor
her husband above all men, she
might as well be in a brothel as com-
pelled to share his life. If a man does
not love his wife, happiness cannot
abide in that home. Laws cannot
make people virtuous or happy. They
cannot prevent mistakes in marriages.
They cannot guard the sancity of the
home.
The early history of marriage is
so varied, and its beginnings are so
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slightly removed from the natural or
animal condition that no definite acts,
as to whether the marriage contract
evolved with the advancement of man,
or whether it existed in the rudimen-
tary state, are known.
However, the trend of logical reason-
ing leads us to believe that the institu-
tion is one of man, and the numerous
cases in which, as an institution, it
fails utterly would seem to convince
us that such is the case. However
that may be, it is quite evident that
marriage and the knowledge apper-
taining thereto has in no wise pro-
gressed, as have various others of
man's institutions.
In days prehistoric, women were
thought of and sought after only for
the purpose of gratifying natural desire.
They were accordingly bought and
sold, so much woman for so many
hides or tusks or kine, very much
re
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(except in a rudimentary state) as
they are today, among many of the
so-called upper classes. After having
purchased his partner, the groom would
escort her to her new abode, box her
soundly on both ears to signify that
she had become possessed of a new
master and the ceremony was over.
There are many records of tribes
where the men and women lived
together quite indiscriminately, there
being no master or spouse, but each
so living as his fancy dictated. Here,
indeed, was variety the spice of life.
Among certain nations the men of one
clan were permitted to cohabit with
the women of another particular clan,
one clan being permitted to one other
only. This method has been termed
"group marriage.” It undoubtedly was
owing to the disfavor under which the
primeval woman fell and to the destruc-
tion of female infants from this reason
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that the supply became entirely in-
adequate to the demand of the males
in various large districts, and hence
sprung the practice of purchase, a
practice which became so established
that women who were secured without
this formality were regarded in the
light of the prostitute and the offspring
became bastardized. The traffic
became a popular one with parents
who, it seems, were wise enough to
of prices ever tending upwards. There
came a time, naturally, at last, when
these prices reached a point which
the would-be benedict could not or
would not pay. Accordingly it came
to pass that the aspiring warrior would
band a few of his trusty friends
together and swoop down upon the
woman, carrying her away by main
force, after which for the first night
he was compelled to surrender her for
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the uses of his friends who had assisted
him, then she became his exclusive.
property. There is a tradition that
the chief assistant in these little sorties
is today represented by the best man.
As civilization advanced and the
significance of the procreation of off-*
spring became more evident, the im-
portance of marriage became greater
and was celebrated at greater length,
in which ceremony the barbarous cus-
toms came to be a part by symbol
only, i. e., the woman would make a
pretense of great grief and would
apparently have to be torn from her
friends by main force, after which
she would moan and tear her tresses
and, having reached the dwelling of
her new lord, would huddle herself
in a corner and glance at him from
behind the disarranged locks, requiring
great diplomacy to be coaxed forth.
In one of the East Indian tribes,
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upon marriage, the wife became the
property of all the brothers as they
successively reached maturity, and in
many tribes to lend the wife to a
stranger during his stay at a hut
was considered the highest possible
courtesy. The necessity for definition
and ceremony in marriage seems to have
been occasioned by the development
of the right of private property, on
account of which men desired some
definite knowledge as to their offspring
and heir. The marriage ceremony,
therefore, as it grew of importance,
more frequently became symbolical
of the new relation as partners to a
contract, than to sexual privileges,
although sometimes the latter was
symbolized, an example of which has
come down to us in the custom of the
marriage ring.
At the earlier periods, there seems to
have been no action out of the ordinary
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other than a feast (to which the savage
is always prone). Later the feast
lasted for several days and even weeks.
In the Malay tribes the man and woman
ate pudding from the same dish, and
in Brazil they drank brandy together
from the same cup. In Japan they
drank a fixed number of cups, in
Russia a single beaker, and so on.
In certain East Indian tribes the bride
tied a cord of her twisting about
the husband's waist, which was there-
after always worn. Other customs, such
as joining little fingers, tying garments
together, douching each other with
water, being marked with each other's
blood (India), tying hands together
with grass (Hindu), the woman carrying
fire to the man's hut (Australian) are
notable.
Coming then to civilized customs, of
which more is known, we will pass
over them briefly. While in most
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countries the religion takes no cogni-
zance of marriage, the ceremony usually
is of a religious nature. The Buddist
considers the union of the sexes only a
concession to frailty, a mere civil
action. The Mohammedan regards it
in much the same light, and the
Hebrew likewise. The ancient Greeks
and Romans had a religious ceremony
with the blessings of priests, and
prayers to the gods, but it fell into
disuse. In Nicaraugua the custom
was for the couple, with small fingers
clasped, to be led before a fire and
instructed by the priest until the fire
should be burned out, after which.
they were considered man and wife.
Thus it will be seen that through all
ages there were only degrees of dif-
ference to attain the same end. A
study of these degrees is useful and
should be more so. The instinctive
actions of rudimentary peoples should
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assist us to a correct understanding
of ourselves. A failure to understand
the simplest of these has caused many
a ruined home and blasted life. How
to know what woman to select or what
woman not to select- that is the
question.
You must start with a full under-
standing that however sentimental your
ideas on the subject may be, and
however revolting the association of
so-called debasing thoughts with the
object of your adoration (if there be
such an object with you) the end of
marriage is a relationship which is
identical with the propagation of the
race. There are other important
considerations in this advanced day,
but none so absolutely essential as
that your consort shall be able to bear
you a family and consent to licensed
privileges.
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CHAPTER IX
NAMELESS BABES, AND BABELESS
WIVES
It is said that when a woman's
first child is born, that the old dames
of gossip, slander and malice, sit
down immediately and count nine
on their clawlike hands! An exultant
cry of delight is heard from these old
scandal mongers when the count is
not nine. Yet, and we are told by
medical authority, that these sisters
who keep tab on others' secret love
and grief, are not the only ones who
figure in the world's statistics and
discover that the first born is only
too often conceived in pure love before
wedlock!
· The only theory advanced for this
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condition seems to give rise to two
thoughts — unholy love and also a
natural instinct to know if wedlock
would be a suitable condition, knowing
that in all religious honesty it is not a
state of union for a day, a month or a
year, but just so long as the contracting
pärties live! "Wrong” cries the old
dames. "Right” whispers quivering
Reason. "Shame" moans civilization;
but the baby comes, the offspring of
love, and the incident is
never forgotten. Strange, as it is, we
hear of the child born out of wedlock,
or too soon, who lived and died long,
long ages before we came here to
trouble our souls with the reason of
just living at all.
The subject of illegitimacy has been
touched by nearly all great thinkers
in their writings. Our public libraries
have bulging shelves of books, written
since the establishment of the civil
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code, to clear, if possible, the cobwebs
of doubt and derision, while offering
suggestions for purity and holy wed-
lock, so it will not be amiss, possibly,
such persons as Scott, Hugo, and
Hawthorne have delved into this sub-
ject. If for no other reason, and the
reason of this book is for higher purity,
we would learn from any source,
ancient or modern, the possibilities
and the consequences of this condition
as it is likely to enter our own lives, for
we want to broaden our views of the
fallen sister. We are not thinking
wholly of the scarlet sister of the
night, but the girl who innocently goes
wrong or is likely to go wrong, and
the years of lamentable torture ahead!
First, then, as to the prevalence of
illegitimacy. A few figures from
statistics will suffice. The number of
illegitimate children born in the war
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zones during the months of May and
June, 1915, are numbered in thousands!
More than twenty thousand—some
say more—helpless babes, many who
will live to replenish the earth, may ask
the reason for their unwelcome birth.
Can you answer it? Can I ? Religion
has been throttled to death in that war.
Hell reigns. Is it or is it not the Divine
idea of replenishing the earth, even
out of wedlock, when savage men kill
and destroy earth's species? Is it
noble or sinful to break God's laws of
chastity when such cruel deviltry lays
waste a world? Will there be strength
of purpose, greater religion, finer and
happier possibilities in the future gen-
eration, made up of a world of illegiti-
mate children? Have these mothers
forfeited chastity for a cause, or has
war destroyed their moral fibre while
breaking their hearts and destroying
their souls? Will the babe at the breast
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bring peace and love to hearts that
grieve for their real love mates who,
likely, had the war not occured, would
have married their companions.
In England, Ireland, Scotland and
Wales, during a period of ten years
was made known the record of 500,000
illegitimate births, averaging about
fifty thousand a year. In the British
Isles careful investigations have been
made and preserved, while in other
European countries there has been
some research, but research in no way
is so exhaustive. In the United States
of America, so far as observed, the rate
has been almost three times as great,
the comparison deducted from statis-
tics of large centers of population, i.e.,
Washington, D. C., Chicago and New
York City, compared with London,
England. At a rate of increase cor-
responding with the increase in popu-
lation, the figures bring us startling
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conclusions, showing that annually
300,000 women are prostituted in the
United States! It would, without
doubt, be safe to say that there are
between one hundred and fifty and
two hundred thousand victims. From
what classes these spring is herein
shown:
4,706 were servants.
2,443 were from factories.
985, country or rural districts.
607, seamstresses.
831 were from homes unemployed.
59, daughters of professional men.
385, widows.
The author of “John Halifax Gentle-
man,” says: “No one can have taken
interest in the working classes without
being aware how frightfully common
among them is what they term a
“Misfortune." How few women come
to the marriage altar at all, or come
just a week or two before maternity!
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This, of course, applies to a very low
class of people for whom the social
ban has little or no terror, their sense
of pride being burdened by their
greatest handicap-ignorance, illiter-
acy, evil environment and no pure
enlightment of purposeful womanhood.
Women of the middle class are the
element which frequently go on the
street and are known as the “priest-
esses of the night." This avenue of
life, more wretched than any written
words can convey, is a pathway to
utter destruction and death. While
women of the street have been saved
and every effort is made to protect
them, only too often they despair of
ever regaining a woman's good place
in the world, consequently return to
the street—worse, far worse in their
wretchedness, and vastly more dan-
These women will tell us that they
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are selling their body for the means
to provide food for a child or children,
sometimes a whole family. After all,
is it so strange? All the world turns
from a fallen woman; she cannot
work; she cannot hold up her head;
there is nowhere to turn; curses, re-
buffs and contempt are her sportion.
Self preservation being the first law
of nature, is it strange that the starving
body knows no other law?
In practically every railroad station
of any size worthy of notice in America
we see women whose duty it is to care
for the stranger who comes within the
city gates, to help those who come
friendless and need immediate assist-
ance.
In a well-known station came the
forlorn Magdalen. No lower could
she sink in the depths of sin and de-
gradation; but she asked help of a
charity sister at the station to place
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her. For hours and hours these
charity women tried to find the dis-
graced woman a home. They were
not so careful where they sent her it
occured to me, for I was talking with
one of the charity women, but they
could do nothing for her. She was
unwanted in a city of thousands. She
had no place to lie her head. She was
a burden and a disgrace—with a hope
in her heart, which likely, had it been
fulfilled at the time, would have been
to her dark soul like the dawn of a
thousand days. They sent her out of
the city because the city did not want
her and could find no place for her.
Whose fault? Did she sink lower and
lower? But that was impossible, or
did some good Samaritan see in her a
soul to save? It is not known what
was her fate, we only know she was,
poor girl, a human outcast on the
whole wide world!
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The fallen woman, the expectant
mother, who has no hope of shunning
her fate, who, so often does not know
anything for self preservation, knows
the law stands over her with its terrible
penalty if she risk death to escape
shame! Can you bring yourself to
picture the terror and the anguish of
the woman who makes the discovery
of her condition? Before her mind
rises up the hell which awaits her.
She sees herself wronged by the man,
shunned by her associates, disgraced
to her friends, and often disowned by
parents—especially a father. Which
is better, to let the babe live and be
cursed on earth as many children are
so injured, or should it die at once?
But here is where “Thou shalt not kill”
holds the wronged one in awe of the
Almighty God and His vengence-God,
man, all humanity against her and
a helpless little life coming, that is
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the innocent cause of a living hell
and earthly torment. But often the
result is murder.
Statistics show us that out of one
thousand illegitimate births the mor-
tality in infancy is seven hundred,
while of the lawfully born only one
hundred die, i.e., nearly five hundred
of every thousand illegitimate children
are murdered.
Sir George Graham, late Registar
General, is quoted as having said:
“If the mortality were not greater
among illegitimate children, every fif-
teenth person in England must be of
illegitimate extraction." There is no
doubt that in nine hundred and ninety-
nine out of every thousand families is
the strain of illegitimacy! This again
exemplifies the plan of nature in evolu-
tion, for such propagation, even though
at the expense of individual happiness
and honor, does much in admixing the
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blood and imparting that vigor to the
race which is so essential. The
tendency of marriage (the social code)
is always toward the union of equalities.
Such unions when too long continued,
as in many inter-marriages, result in
degeneration and frequently hopeless
idiocy, inferior mentality, cripples and
Let the men who would cry out
against all who have the stigma of
illegitimacy upon them remember that
all persons so born are not weaklings,
but quite the reverse, though strength
and power from this class of persons find
themselves in the minority. There were :
Napoleon Bonaparte, William the Con-
queror of England, Pizarro, the Con-
queror of Peru, General Burgoine and
Marshall de Saxe, of illegitimate birth.
The Bishop of Orleans was the son of
a maid servant at a public hostelry in
Switzerland, and knew no father.
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Alexander Hamilton, famous in Amer-
ican history, was of lowly birth and
bore the stigma. Da' Alembert, a
master mind among writers of his
day, a grace to the Court of Catharine
II., and Frederick the Great, and
honored by the Pope himself, was
picked up soon after birth in the
gutter of Paris, a foundling. Boccaccio,
the father of Italian prose, was a
bastard, as was Erasmus of Rotter-
dam, whose name is most honored in
the Chronicles of the Renaissance.
George Sand had the same strain in
his veins. Alexander Dumas, himself
an illegitimate son, was the grandson
of a French Marquis and a slave
woman of San Domingo. Abraham
Lincoln attributed his power of anal-
ysis, his logic, mental activity which
distinguished him from the others of
the Hank family, to the fact that his
mother was the illegitimate daughter
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of Lucy Hanks and a Virginia gentle-
man. (Note that it was the mother
influence which gave to this country,
Abraham Lincoln.)
Therefore, all you women, if through
ignorance, misfortune or weakness over-
step the bonds of the social law, when
the temptation comes and plants in
your heart the seed of murder, tear it
out, root and stalk, and sturdily face
the result. If the child be the offspring
of great love then may you know that
the years of disgrace and scorn which
mayhap must be faced are as naught
to the happiness which this offspring
may bring you.
Truly, men have strange and very
peculiar ideas concerning such marriage,
as was evidenced only a few years ago
when the idea of "trial marriage" was
introduced to a shocked audience.
The idea of ten years wedlock with
the privilege of sundering the sacred
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ties of relationship for any reason-no
just reason, provided the separation
was desired—was nipped in the bud-
ding, so we are told by the honest,
though very indignant, wife of the man
who proposed this freak institution of
marriage. This—then from man!
Less debasing in every respect is the
mating of animals, many of which, if
a companion die, seeks no other-
though the one that lives be the male!
The leopard is known as a moral animal,
following a sex instinct of choosing
his female companion, the same one
year after year in rearing their young.
The great need of the two parents
is shown in all animal life. It needs
no explanation. A woman cannot
give the proper attention to a child
and make her own living and one for
the child. That many do perform
this miracle is evidenced through a
certain form of martyrdom, which we
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term heroic, in cases of widowhood;
but the eternal fight for a living leaves
its unmistakable scars on the woman.
But the woman who brings into the
world an unwanted child seldom has the
necessary assistance to merely exist.
This is because in the more respectable
homes such "events" are not permitted
to become public news.
In the city of Paris (and in many
other cities) there stands a great
palace, the residence of a practitioner
of medicine. Its foundation is built
upon dead children, and the key to his
fortune spells murder. One of the
kindest acts of our clean advertisers
was to wipe out the medicines intended
for criminal purposes which, while
carefully worded, conveyed to anxious
ones the chance of relief from disgrace,
though the medicine was dangerous
and was more likely to cause death to
both parent and child. But youths
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bought it for sweethearts, and anxious
girls got it themselves, and many,
perhaps, were the exultant motherless
who were wicked patrons of these
drug institutions selling death to
ignorant womanhood. This sale of
preventatives continued for years and
years, if you yourself can recall just
how long you found them in your daily
newspapers!
So many difficulties conspire against
many young men marrying women of
their choice that the vast army of
hard-working, earnest men, are hoping
against hope, while sweethearts are
working too-and waiting. Romance,
so sweet and precious to youth, is
necessarily destroyed by the existing
materialism of actual conditions. The
love - in - a - cottage romance fails to
please most women. Commercialism
plays its part too strongly and the maid
who, years ago, wed the man of her
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choice, helped him by slow degrees
to make a home and a living, today
has sons and daughters who have
inherited none of the parents' lowly
acts of mutual help in their love..
They expect too much and give too
little.
Said a young business man not long
ago: "I want to marry. I really and
truly desire a home of my own. My
whole life is directed toward a home of
my own. But how am I to get the
right woman for that home? If I take
a young woman to the theatre, I must
send flowers, have a machine of my own
or hire one, purchase the best box-
seats, take her to supper, and repeat
this indefinitely, with other expensive
expressions of my affection. I may
other men who, like myself, are paying
the same price for her society! The
humblest maid is likely to be the most
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extravagant wife. I see men who toil
all day going to their suite of rooms
in a fashionable apartment or hotel,
only to find their wives absent, or
refreshed and resplendent for a night's
gayety at some place of amusement.
Men are leaving their nights of eager
dissipation when they desire to wed.
Home to them is the attraction; but
you don't find the right women who
want the positions, and it is too
expensive to court them anyway.”
That was the speech of a young
man, not quite thirty years old, bright,
fresh, clean, honest, a man who is
steady in business, a “comer" and who
would make a good wife 'the best
husband on earth. His position is
similar to thousands of others who,
rather than wed these purse-mad,
wild, joyous girls are losing all desire
to wed at all-and many of them never
will.
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Perhaps one of the saddest sights in
the city is that domicile, frequently
known as a private boarding-house
which contains a mixed element of
men and women. There you will find
innocent young girls whose minds are
as fresh and pure as the dawn of day;
there you find the shoe clerk whose
salary will not permit him to wed;
there, too, is the crafty lawyer, a
bachelor, wise to the ways of man and
maid, and forlorn in his unsettled
state; there abides the old lady, totter-
ing on to her grave, while in the room
beneath her is Julia, the prettiest
young widow in the city, whose “uncle"
supports her, but never calls to see her.
In a back room is the dark-eyed girl
who sleeps until noon, then goes down
town “shopping” and wears fifteen
dollar shirt waists every day in the
week. But-here SHE comes, the
woman whose hair is as dark as the
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tresses of her little daughter. The
child has the eyes of a wild rabbit.
Often she is alone and what is so
lonely as a precious little girl in a big,
lonesome boarding house? This
mother is corrupt. The landlady needs
her money. She keeps her there.
She comes and she goes. Wise in all
her unholy ways she-that type is
the siren who goes after just such boys
and young men as I have just narrated.
They loathe her. They despise her.
But somehow or other her tentacles
of wiles will wrap themselves around
the chosen youth, and-she gets him.
She robs him of his ideals, she steals
his manhood, she leaves him moneyless
if she can, then goes back to her room
and shares the bed with her innocent
child. A snake coiled around a white
blossom is her true position with the
child that cried itself to sleep when she
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put her to bed and went out on her
mission.
The general supposition is that the
human family is the only family of
creation that demands affection in the
relationship herein described. The
loss of affection kills the natural desire
of association; yet thousands of divorces
are granted each year because, through
the lack of love, everything else goes
wrong. Love makes quick amends for
any injury, hurt or wrong. Where this
tenderness is lacking comes the in-
difference which causes every form of
why parental interference causes so
many unhappy marriages; this, too,
is why many girls, even more so than
young men, if disappointed in one
love affair will turn to another, seem-
ingly finding exactly the same measure
of pleasure; but who, later on, awakens
to the greatest grief the young heart
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is to know. Marrying for spite is
almost as common as marrying for
love. All its teachings have not des-
troyed the conduct which, leads so
many maids to the altar, just to show
what they can do...
A noted judge of the city court was
once asked which class sought the
divorce soonest? He said that the
disappointed matron who had not
married for love, but money and posi-
tion ranked first; while the lowly
class held on to their vows year after
year until driven by immorality or
drunkenness of their husbands to seek
relief, while all other cases were not
worthy of notice. Another office,
hearing many distressing cases of a
lowly class stated that ignorant as are
many of our foreign women in this
country, the one great offense to them
is immorality in their husbandsall
else being excused. Aristocrats fight
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the divorce courts with their millions;
while the poor woman in her mining
hut home will suffer the agonies of the
damned, bring children almost year-
ly into the world, and finally, heart-
broken, seek the divorce — never
to wed, of course, as practically all
foreign women are Catholics.
It being so well known that love,
kindness and human expressions of
tenderness are so essential, it seems a
wonder that any man or woman would
consent to the holy rite of marriage
who is not certain that he or she is
certain of that love which will suffer
at the very best through many vanish-
ing dreams that can never come true.
These fearful conditions then are
what lead men to wrong modes of
living. This is why women are not
safe with most men. Not a wile is
left untried when a man chooses to
wrong a girl and the one he is surest
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of is his false love, for the woman's
heart turns first to love and there is
her weakness. This, coupled with the
thoughts of possible marriage, has
made more human wrecks than almost
any other known vice. Weeping girls,
expectant mothers, hardened criminals
who seek Homes of Refuge, like
“Homes For The Friendless” are all
ready to tell you of blithed love and
hopes. Yes, marriages do result from
these terrible conditions-frequently
the happiest marriages—but it is most-
ly the contrary. .
The sex call is so essential, even as
it is an instinct in the animal and the
fowl, that the intelligent must consider
it first of all, and to disregard it may
mean the one great barrier to a happy
life.
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CHAPTER X
FROM THE CAFES CAME SHAME AND
DISEASE
My business in life has been such
that I have frequently been obliged
to visit all manner of places. I have
talked with the inmates of the foulest
dives on this continent. The barrel-
house, the gambling hell, the brothel.
I have seen former "inmates” begging
at the back door for a crumb of bread,
or for a drink of whiskey to stimulate
the human wreck. I have seen hate-
the madness of the heart. And I have
seen jealousy end in midnight murder.
Love and Hate and Jealousy are
fires that burn as brightly in hearts
steeped in crime, as in those in maudlin
humanity.
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Many refined educated young women
were found in those harbors of sin-
women who gambled their all on a
cowardly lie clothed in the garb of
eternal truth. Three causes I learned
were the principal reasons which led
these young girls to forsake the straight
and narrow path” that is supposed to
lead to everlasting life, and seek the
irremediable way of eternal death.
False love, automobiles, and drinking
and dancing in the public cafes.
It is not a very long step for young
girls after they begin taking auto rides
with young men they scarcely know.
The natural sequence is plain to most
persons who have made a study of
thoughtless girls and their love of
fun. They are as putty in the hands
of the men they meet. Their ruin is
but a question of days, often hours.
For, when pretty, young girls go out
by night in joy rides with chance
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acquaintances there isn't much left
but tears and shame. Broken hearts,
shattered reputations and the merciless
tattle of the evil-minded gossips who
hound the steps of the unthinking
through long days and nights become
the portion of those who “just love
a good time" and are not circumspect
in pursuit of it.
The human vultures in the shape
of men have no hesitancy in calling at
the homes of their intended victims,
while foolish parents look on and smile
at the frolics of the young. Then
come the cafes, the private booths,
the glass of wine, then the bottle of
champagne, and the dance in the
“open space" and around the tables.
The wine suppers come more frequent-
ly and, step by step, while their hands
touch one another's, the girls are led
down and down into the valleyof despair
from which there is no route of return.
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Little by little they gave themselves
to the joys of the evenings, and closer
and closer they approached the crisis
against which all pure and pretty
young girls must constantly guard
themselves. When the time came they
were unequal to the test, and they
confined themselves to their male keep-
ers, body and soul. It was not a long,
but a sad story; such a pitiful tale of
weakness instead of wantonness. It
was their secret, their romance-poor,
blind young things. They had given
themselves to the worst of men “and
the darkness came on quickly and the
gloaming turned to night.”
Fond fathers and mothers sit many
a night in tears and look back upon
tiny graves of those whose little ones
they have held and wonder if, aftër
all, Death is the worst thing when it
comes and stretches its hand over the
cradle and takes away the child.
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There are some things that are worse
than death. The destroyers of these
homes and young girls have done a
terrible thing.
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Along with the automobile and the
cafe there is another contributing factor
to the downfall of young girls. It is
the innocent, and almost necessary
telephone; which has become practi-
cally indispensable in both business
and home. The telephone is a wonder-
ful invention, and yet, did it ever
occur to you that it was a most
devilish little agency? As an illus-
tration,just read the following conversa-
tions:
The man at the phone was good
looking and his clothes were immacu-
late. He sported a nice, cute little
mustache, a cane, and a white rose in
the lapel of his coat, which signified
that he belonged to the society of
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Purity. He stepped lightly into the
booth and lifted the receiver from the
hook.
“Give me Garfield, nine, ninety-nine,
operator, please.”
"Hello! Who is speaking please?”
Mr. Traveler! “Wrong number, par-
don me, please," and he walked away
with a smile on his face.
An hour later the man, the nice
clothes, the cute little mustache, and
the cane, and the rose, came back.
He again picked up the receiver.
"Nine, ninety-nine, Garfield, please,''
he said.
“Hello! Who is this, please?”
“Sweetheart, I'm at the Hotel. Cal-
led a while ago but Daddy was there.
Told him I had the wrong number.
I want to see you so badly. Get your
hat and we will take a long walk up
along the bank of the river, it is
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quiet up there and no danger of being
seen. I will meet you in ten minutes,
near the tree.” He rang off and
hustled away.
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She was sitting in the parlor trying
to read, but she couldn't. She was
young and pretty, only seventeen.
The color in her cheeks showed health
and vitality and the beautiful brown
eyes were full of merriment. Time
was hanging heavily on this young
thing. She was thinking of that wild
young scamp of a sweetheart whom her
parents forbade her going with. She
was alone now. Parents and everybody
were gone somewhere. She could not
read, try as she would, her mind
traveled somewhere, as the minds of
girls at seventeen usually travel.
Pretty soon she “traveled” to the
telephone.
“Lakeside 2222," she called.
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"That you, Jack?"
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has gone to the show. Won't be home
for hours. I am mighty lonesome, and
really I am afraid here all alone."
“Oh, will you come?" You're a dear!
“No, there is absolutely no danger.
Didn't I tell you that everybody has
gone, and will be gone for hours?
I am alone and just crazy to see you.
Don't be a fraidy cat. Sure, I'll turn
the lights out, and meet you on the
porch."
Jack came up, and the lights went
down.
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He was a sporty-looking stranger.
She noticed him on the street and,
strangely, he noticed her. She entered
a modest little house and a few minutes
later the sporty young man stood on
the porch talking with the young wife.
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“Can't I come in for a little while?
He inquired.
"I don't know whether it is safe or
not right now, said the "faithful”
wife. Waita minute and I will find out."
And going to the telephone, she
called
“Wabash 515."
“That you, Charlie dear?” She
sweetly asked.
“Will you do something nice for
me, dear? On your way home to
lunch stop in at Soakum's and get me
a package of oyster crackers, please?
Oh,well, if you are not coming home until
dinner, why I can have the grocer's
boy bring them over in the meantime.
Thank you, dear, but don't bother,
I just wanted them for your own
sweet self. Good bye, dear boy.'
And she rang off.
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Is there anything that can beat the
little telephone wire for deviltry?
I have seen disease in its most
malignant form. Young women turned
into veritable monsters by means of .
that dread disease syphilis, their faces
eaten away until nothing remained
but a seamy flat surface of scars and
ugliness. Often the lips have disap-
peared entirely, as well as the teeth
and gums. Where did these women
get the disease? From a man. A mis-
erable low down scoundrel who thought
more of self gratification than of the
preservation of humanity. In many
cases the offending cause was the
woman's husband.
There are something like eighty
thousand sufferers in Chicago from
syphilis. Many are young men who, in
“sowing their wild oats,” caught the
vilest disease that ever befell mortal
man. These young men consult some
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quack Doctor, as a rule, and after a
few weeks' treatment are pronounced
cured. They marry, and blind and
crippled children are the result. Little
old withered, bloodless babes are the
natural result of syphilitic parents.
Young women should hesitate long
whose health they know nothing.
There are no laws on the statute
books which tend to protect a young
woman from the syphilitic beast who
cozens her into marriage. We have
many laws, committees and reform
associations for the purpose of dis-
covering this sin—this accursed plague,
but none to remove it. The man
affected with this dread disease who
marries inflicts upon his wife the
grossest insult imaginable. He makes
her the victim of his past unholy
passions and degrades her to the very
level of the prostitute who gave him
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the disease in the first place. He has
created between the wife and the
prostitute a bond of relationship. The
poisoned blood of the one courses
through the veins of the other and the
children yet to be born. Not only the
body of the young wife has been
soiled, but the mind as well, and her
dignity and modesty have been tainted
by contact with the wanton and the
libertine. Her love, her hope, her
happiness, have been struck down ere
they ever had a chance to bloom, and in
their stead comes physical and moral
decay, her future is over-whelmed
with the vileness of her position. The
scandal and humiliation of it all makes
her long for an early grave.
A diseased woman told me that after
she became affected with the disease
she became possessed with a passion,
a hatred for men, and vowed to destroy
as many of them as she could. There-
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fore she took all who offered them-
selves, old and young alike, if they
paid all right, if they didn't it was
all right too. “I paid back to the
male tribe what they had given me.
It was fun for me to meet them after-
wards and hear them curse and rave.
I have despised men from the day of
my ruination. But afterwards I just
had to do it in order to eat. For you
know the syphilitic is not a very
welcome guest, even in the lowest
dives in the vilest part of a vile city."
The Press, its influence and interest
in the Vice question? There was a
time when the principal business of
the press was the publication of im-
portant news and the expression of
opinion anent matters of moment.
In those days the follies, vices, and
consequent miseries of multitudes, dis-
played in a newspaper, were so many
admonitions and warnings, so many
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beacons, continually burning, to turn
others from the rocks on which they
have been shipwrecked. What more
powerful dissuasive from suspicion,
jealousy and anger, than the story of
one friend murdered by another in a
debauch? What caution likely to be
more effectual against gambling and
profligacy than the mournful relation
of an execution, or the fate of a des-
pairing suicide? What finer lecture
on the necessity of economy than an
auction of estates, houses and furni-
ture? Is not this a sermon on morals?
But many of the "great dailies"
that once went in for glory and aspired
to decency, are not now averse to
accepting a fat fee for championing
some particular interest, regardless of
the general welfare. "Scatteration"
appealed to certain interests, as it
reduced property values in the dis-
tricts formerly segregated. Money
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interests “grabbed" the deserted pro-
perty, held it for a time, then sold it
for “business” purposes at a magni-
ficent increase.
When the "great dailies” are not
"elongating" the leg of some corpora-
tion with a legislative ax to grind, or
boosting some political aspirant with a
large bank account, they are courting
the pervenues, who are ever ready
for the front page — puffing society
“queens” for a consideration, and
bowing in obedience to the dollars
of feather-headed dudes. The daily
press has degenerated from a public
educator into a professional scandal
monger, from an inculcator of sovereign
manhood to a pitiful flunkey that
serves for hire, panders to a vitiated
public taste for stray pennies. This
may be strong language; but this
mighty Yankee Nation will recognize
it as the gospel truth.
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CHAPTER XI
THE MERRY MAGDALENS
How often do we see, we men of the
"loop," anxious fathers and mothers
seeking “lost” and wayward daughters
in the crowds of State Street! How
often do we read of the pathetic
appeals to the officers of the law for
aid in their search! About one per
cent of the “lost” daughters are ever
found. Why? Because, either through
shame or inclination they never reveal
their hiding place. The ordinary girl
craves respect—even when she has
fallen low.
Very seldom does the unhappy strug-
gler who attempts to fight her way
upward from the underworld, get away
from the stigma. The rescue workers
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see to that. The condescention that
is shown her awakens nothing but
bitterness while she broods over her
uncertainty. She stands alone. She
is prevented from finding congenial
companions in the new life. She is
denied any friendships upon a basis of
equality.
Let her win a girl friend, and let her
seek to deserve that friendship of
some girl who is pure and wholesome,
and some meddler immediately regards
it a duty to speak in “strictest con-
fidence," of course, to the new friend,
and to say that while the subject of
the rescue work is behaving now, is
making a womanly fight to put her
a past that you should know" before
you compromise yourself. As long
as the girl is the subject of the rescue
worker she is branded “confidentally
of course," as one who loved not
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wisely but too well, or words to that
effect.
There is no place which redeems the
faltering ones in the underworld like
the little mission where the workers
have tasted of the bitter fruits and
have dedicated themselves to the glor-
ious work of redemption—not refor-
mation. It is the narrow-minded,
intolerant zealot in a work he does not
understand, who has put the word
“reform" into the list of the most
hated words. None but the broad-
minded and generous can really find
their way to hearts bowed down-none
but ones with big and sympathetic
natures are fit to carry on the work
of human reclamation. It is the
censorship of the cussedly clean which
makes the life of the striving girl a
living hell.
Every line of argument leads us
back to the best reformers who, right
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now, can't say they have cleaned a
city of its evil. The reformers have
but agitated the work. The home
is, indeed, the battlefield for every
reform. Unfortunately there are homes
where no moral fibre is in their makeup.
There are children born and bred under
such great and terrible immoral in-
fluence that it will take years and years
to cleanse the little ones of their
miserable existence under such pathetic
influences. Here is where the school or
the institution caring most for the
children must plant the first seeds of
purity.
In the very beginning of this work
against immorality a well known east-
ern professor of a boys' college was
said to remark: “Give me a boy
and girl from four years to sixteen, and
I can train them to live moral lives,
and I care not who has them after I
get through with them.” A broad
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statement, true, but strong morals
are not easily broken; or, if they are,
there is usually a quick re-adjustment
and the broken link is stronger than
ever. Moral purity cannot stand
without a strong base, and that which
is most essential is health and intellec-
tual training.
When the people of a nation are
almost universally poor, sexual purity
is generally the rule. Simple living
and severe toil keep in check many
natural inclinations which luxury and
idleness are sure to corrupt. But when
a nation becomes divided into the very
rich and the extremely poor, when
waste and woeful want go hand in
hand; when luxury renders abnormal
the passion of the one; and cupidity,
born of envy, blunts the moral precep-
tions of the other, then, indeed, is
the nation delivered over to the world,
the flesh and the devil.
TO
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Beautiful in all radiant girlhood
charms is a young woman whose
office for a time paid but a meagre sum
in one of our large department stores.
Her downfall was quick and
disgraceful. When making a confession
before a hard-hearted judge who was
hearing her case in court, she said:
“I know I am beautiful. But when I
stood in that store and saw rich girls
who came there with plenty of money
and could buy with money or checks
what I could not get with a year's
earnings, I could not resist the temp-
tation to steal.”
“Were you not proud of your
personal beauty?” asked the judge."
“My physical beauty pleased me;
but I wanted lovely clothes, and though
you may sentence me to prison and
hurt me all the days of my life; yet I
still feel as I now do. I want to live
like the girls who come into our stores
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VV
and seem so well dressed, comfortable
and happy."
True, her temperament is weak.
Back of it lies the desire to attract.
Attract what? A man, with the view
of marrying some man to pamper her
vanity. How can our reformers meet
this type? What would you do with
her if she were your child? Suppose
you cannot further her purposes and
must leave her to her own plans—what
then? God only knows. And God
must direct the salvation of such girls
who have no holier or higher ideal of
their bodies than the thought that
there is a framework of ivory bones
and beautiful flesh made into a-
clothes rack.
A beautifully gowned woman with
nothing but a pretty face and a frilly
dress of tissue is about as interesting
as a six week's old kitten that plays
with its own tail. But the queer part
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of the whole thing is the girl plays
her big part in the lives of nine men
out of ten.
Save her! Save her! Save her!
Don't tempt her with money. Once
she was the innocent little babe that
slept within the curve of a pure
mother's arms. Her baby mouth was
made for love kisses; her eyes were
made to reflect heaven to a good man;
her body is the temple of motherhood.
Save her soul and body, you human
vulture who would laugh at the girl
for a day, then waddle off to your old
fat wife in her country home where
she is giving a card party. Save her-
ask God how if you don't know how
yourself!
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CHAPTER XII
VIRTUE LIES IN LABOR'S ARMS
As formerly said, it is, after all, the
poor, the hard-working, earnest ones
who have less to fear, since labor at
all times has saved one in the pursuit
of all evils. The sons grow up useful,
self-reliant men; the daughter indus-
trious and virtuous. Unfortunately
in the wide comparison between the
children of wealthy parents and those
of poorer ones, there is created an
envious unrest, and a most pathetic
one which confronts the young women
who envy the more fortunate young
women in what, apparently, and fre-
quently is, a more comfortable position
in the social world.
In many instances where a poor
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girl has seen nothing but the eternal
home warfare for the elusive enough,
knowing that life under such conditions
is robbed of many pleasures, real and
artificial, she begins a vain and foolish
plan to dress fashionably, always, too,
with the hope of captivating some rich
man who will be a safeguard against
future poverty and want. A greater
mistake never was made, since only too
often men who can supply this great
need are such great offenders in the
moral world, that any woman giving
in exchange her virtue itself for the
tawdry trappings of dress and sur-
roundings, will learn that a prison is
not the only place which makes one a
prisoner in this life. Bound to a man
who is wealthy, unclean, immoral, a
degenerate in everything, but faultless
attire, seems tremendous odds against
the girl and a natural lover who would
be only too glad to work for her.
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This brings us back to the man who
fails to gain the affection of the woman
he loves. All his work, striving, honesty
and sobriety, sink into insignificance
at the approach of a flippant youth
with a this-year model car! What
does he do, the man with his heartache,
his loneliness, his utter despair? Denied
the natural life he earnestly longs to
live, he seeks the next best.
Every woman in this world is a
power unto some man. When a man
loves a woman and she knows it, she
can do more for him, nine times out
of ten, than can his own mother!
If she fails to develop the finer charac-
teristics in him, she denies him the
greatest help that God ever expected
of her! And if she drives him from
her love and discourages him in what
is tender, clean and good, she sends
him into this class of men that we
mention in these pages. We do, indeed,
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stand agast at the evil created by men
in the name of love, and we ever shed
a tear of pity for the unfortunate girl
who is a victim of man's perfidy in the
confidence of her love; but just as
great is the flagrant sin against a
young man when a woman of his
affections deceives him, destroys his
life, and leaves him to a life of temp-
tation, for temptation is greater in the
carnal sin 'to a man than it is to any
woman.
Religion and higher education are
paramount in the creating of a moral
uplift. Scholastic learning is not educa-
tional nor helpful. It is the education
of the finest qualities in the child
that is necessary, and this will mean
years and years of help to further the
cause. One might say that the work
done today is for all future generations,
since we naturally expect great op-
position early in the fight.
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A few years ago there came into the
lowly camp of an Ohio mining town a
great many foreigners. Among many
of the Polish people were lovely daugh-
ters. These people, in many instances,
were quite ignorant; but there was one
noticeable feature—the girls were won-
derfully well guarded in chastity. Few,
if any, associated with men companions
who did not have the guardianship of
one or both parents. Younger children
were born, entered our public schools,
learned of a freedom which their elder
sisters never knew, with the result
that this liberty of action as well as
speech has long since smirched the
purity of that class of lovely girls..
A woman who made a life study of
this condition in our country, made the
statement that, of all human sins, the
one of immorality is the most dif-
ficult to reach. In speaking for
herself, she said: “I was a teacher in
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a college and my girls came from the
best homes. I believe they are the most
discontented young women we have.
In my philanthropic work I met fine
young women, and others who were
hopeless, it seemed. But I soon learned
that in the palatial homes, the domiciles
of these young women we envy, were
crime, strife, lack of religion, innumer-
able vices, drunkenness and hearts
that ached and knew no rest. A wife
held out her jeweled hands to me and
said: 'See the new ring my husband gave
me yesterday. I do not know whether
he gave it to me because he loves me
or because I help to make a show for
him.' Then, bursting into tears, she
complained: 'I do know he is out of
town today with another woman.'”
Do we ape this for heart pleasure; do
we work, toil and live but to come
within the border of this? And, is this
why our pure daughters debase their
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womanhood to secure money for the
furtherance of a sin-lighted pathway
that leads to endless trouble?
Someone has said that we have
exceptions to the rule, and they make
mention of certain queens, ladies of
fashion, well - known actresses who
trampled the social edict beneath their
feet. But have they? So long as a
certain name is mentioned in this
world, and her remarkable career is
narrated, just so sure will this notorious
actress, let her art be ever so artful and
clever, come before the flaming light
of public shame, and her sin, her
wretched immoral sin clings to this
day to the hapless offspring in her
grandchildren! The whole world knows
her as a defiant prostitute, and so the
whole world will recognize her. Ages
cannot efface her total disregard for
her womanly purity. Being popular
has not saved her. It kindles the
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flame of her scorching sin. But-men
admire her and they take their wives
and their daughters to see her act.
Queer, isn't it, that men will commit
murder in their homes when this
crime is discovered against dear ones;
then disregard the offense and pay a
price to see-the victim of another's
shame? But we must be amused.
Someone says that a certain actress
is strong enough to mount the empyrean
despite the serpent coil which drags
others to perdition, that she compels
the world to tolerate, if not forgive,
the black stain in her heart because of
the divine radiance which encircles
her head. It is today as it always
was, that which will blemish the fair
Diana leaves no mark upon the iron
Hercules. The pardon comes only
from the One Forgiver. And God who
made us, our strength and our weak-
ness, must know too that tallest poplars
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will gracefully stand in the tempest
and tornado when noble oaks are sure
to fall.
Why is this? Because of the human
side of it all! Because illicit love is not
guarded, that it is too easily accomp-
lished. While many will remark of
distinguished women who have been
impure, nevertheless, are they not
regarded as weaklings after all! Is
it not to uplift this type as well as the
innocent girl in the heyday of her
youth that this work goes on? Is it
not encouraged and honored when
chastity is discovered? Certainly.
There is a certain actress who has
won the title of being one of our most
modest women. Seldom is her name
mentioned that it is not followed
by some glorious remark concerning
her unsullied womanhood. She took
chastity for her “Mascot' of success
and womanly pride, and while some
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T11
notorious actresses who have lived
otherwise may receive the plaudits of
men and women, far less is their glory
than that sweet, stainless woman who
greets you with her virginal smile and
pleases you with her divine acting, and
leaves you with a moral uplift in your
soul when you leave her house. Has
she gained anything ? Everything.
And what has she lost? Nothing.
Society makes of its men and women
what it will, then sits in judgment.
Then what salvation is there for us?
There is only one way. The world is
naturally honest. We make it less so.
But the world's attitude toward the
fallen woman, once her disgrace be-
comes public, saves her not; and
during the past few years the world
has been equally harsh with men in
the higher walks of life who, for the
same offense, have been socially banish-
ed and removed from public office and
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denied the society of men and women
who were near and dear to them.
Who is to condemn or to save? The
press has done its part nobly and well
at times. The pulpit has echoed the
call of salvation since Christ came to
save the world. The feeble effort on
the part of men and women to offer
their wholesome homes for the habi-
tation of the woman of the world and
her scarlet sins has met with a jeer and
a hearty laugh. Who wants the woman
who has been drunk, brazen, indecent,
though made decent and respectable,
to come within the sacredness of one's
home? Only a false ideal holds up the
purity of the act. We would save them,
we say, but let it be away from our
homes. And that is just the extent of
much so-called reform-religion that
will not tolerate the woman, let her
sin be what it will.
When centuries of civilization have
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failed to purify a world of this sin, then
what can be done? For a woman to
win back the respect that she has lost
she must begin her life anew, and in a
foreign place. Even then she may be
discovered and her truly penitent
heart is torn to shreds. But she is pay-
ing her price. Then the work must
begin with the children. The hardest
day's work a minister ever did was to
talk to a stone-hearted audience, when
not a word of wisdom made a dent!
You must make your attack on the
youthful heart. The old leather bel-
lows of a man's heart beats mostly to
the tune of his own pleasures, and is
not easily penetrated by words of
warning. The old rounder, as he is
known, never thinks, it is said, until
he sits half paralyzed in his chair,
rheumatic in soul and body, diseased,
discouraged, feasting with Death, then
he intertwines his pain-tortured fingers
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Y
SON
and says that God has brought him
to that state to make him think. They
do say it, they always say it. They
simply want to live wrong and die right;
and nine men out of ten live and hope
that their sons will not follow in their
footsteps.
Bitter poverty is where sin brings
in sweet modesty with her bowed
head, her weeping eyes, her broken
heart. We have heard and know of
such cases where a young girl with
dependent ones looking to her for
financial support had resorted to this
shameful and disgraceful life for-
mere money. It is to reach the heart
of these poor souls that the work should
extend and save. God never put a
woman in this world with shoulders
too frail to bear her burden. It may be
deep, hard, grievous; but He has never
exacted the soul of one of His pure
girls to make material ease for others.
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Better far a cry to our public bene-
factors who relieve such distress than
the sale of a girl's soul for that purpose.
At the best it seems that the victim
of this life does not regard her purity
false pride. The noblest women in the
world are widows. Take them with
their little children. They feed, clothe
and educate those children, teach them
the laws of life, guard them to noble
manhood and lovely womanhood, and
if a widow can do this and be an
honorable woman, why say a girl with
dependents must resort to sin to live?
She does not. There never was a road
so rough, so stony, so hemmed in with
briars and tangled with weeds, that a
smooth pathway cannot be made out
of it.
But so long as the devil clinks his
gold and Bacchus leads the dance, and
when youth stoops to folly and hearts
y
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spurn God's love and protection, just
so long will the hard-working leaders
of men and women have a difficult
time to destroy this evil. Since even
marriage does not always help abate
the crime in one direction, but fre-
quently increases it, the only means ·
work must be so largely official that,
unless we have proper officers to dis-
charge their duties, who are going to
be an uplift and a help, one might as
well stand and blow his breath against
the high wall of Gibraltar, expecting
it to crumble, as to talk his life out
against impurity, where segregated
districts become scattered districts,
and the harlot and the virgin live side
by side and their lives are made
unwholesome by the very rottenness
of contact. Even prayers with purpose
cannot accomplish any more than
work with an effort, directed by noble
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men and good women. Even the
gracious aid of the Almighty has
something tremendous, for it is work
against the original plan of human life
which has its incentive in the prop-
agation of the species, and even when
greed and gain are not the principle
cause of this crime, we have something
deeper to fight, a condition which is
the fire of life in the embryonic stage
of future generations—life itself-even
when robbed of any desire to sin for
earthly gain. No wonder love pirates
defeat God's plan. War on nations is
nothing compared with the wars of
human conflict in the battle of-just
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