Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-02

lost W onen OF New 9York---Solemn
s9usI5Eiib Factsl for Ithe People. b9jdihZ3
The New York correspondent of the Chris
Tsian iatsligesess thus rnoticesaithei book by
DR.. Sanger entitled 'The Historysof5 Pfosti-
tution:" 70 ytiTojFa, lsr3''J'iisGoo edi 9hoii
70 There are half dozen solemn facts in that
extraordinary work, that all christians, both
Of townapd Of f country, ought to ll0s l0ok in TIE
face, ,zs,, - "'''i ~ 20 ~ -
|. 20 As, tn, Ahousesd of pleasure ia'New York
for this is the modern name for what Solos
mon called the "doors ofhelp' '7rarel largely re-
fcruited from the country towns and farm hOus-
es, thought to be known by every wretched
girl who meditates life in the brothel that
the average duration of the abandoned awos
mans life in New, York is justtour yeu:s u :
It requires only that brief space of wild re-
velry, cbarnpaigneing, and carousing-
drink, dee tradition and disease4Ato reduce d
beautiful girl of5eighteen into a I loathsome
corpse, flung out to the corruption Of Potter's
Field" 1t ought to be known, too, that the
most of these wretched women are badly edu
cated-t there are few exceptions but, DR..
Sanger tells us that education is at low
standard among them Ill treatment, by pa
rents and husbands, send one tenth Of this
army to vice into their wretched calling. But
the saddest fact Of all, and the one most dis
graceful of our Christian civilization, is that
full one-fourth of the lost women of London
and New York were driven to the streets and
brothels by destituti0n! The terrible alter
native has been starvation or hell ' 1-
How many a virtuous reader of these lines,
now safe in virtue; because safe in compet-
ence, might, if sharp necessity had forced her
to such a decision, be now in the chambers
of the courtezan Nor will it answer for us
to labor for the lost woman's recovery by
Magdalen Asylums, &C., until we have labor
ed harder to save the daughters of poverty
bread. Employment at a fair remuneration
will do more to rescue in season those for
whom the vortex of the brothel is yawning,
For while those Societies afford occasional re-
covcry to the few, the other method will
ensure prevention and safety to the ma
ny. L..G -gg-f j. ..rt9- I'D u .yf1-
You ask, perhaps, how many there are Of
these lost women ? l learn from DR.. Sang
er's accurate volume that there are 1850 in
New York. just think Of two townships as
large as Holokoke, populated by these mis-
cradle Pariahs Of society. If they were pack.
ed in line side by side, they would extend
two miles and four hundred yards! They
would form solid procession from the City
Hall to Fortieth street. j They would fill five
hundred Of our ordinary omnibuses and of
all this fearful array it would seem that nearly
one half are under twenty years of age =
How many Of all these will ever be saved
from the pit? This is question that curdles
our very blood for the gate which these un-
happy creatures pass through is gate that
seldom opens but one way. They that 60 in
thereat, 60 out again no more forever. Thus
far not one courtezan in twenty has been re-
formed Z. ..Es Do ...,.,F icg'~ii.r r-i.-.Es.