The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-02

Yields herself to the horrid trade, is just
four years! It only requires that brief
space of earousal and champagne, o.
revelry and rum, to reduce a beaVsful
girl. fresh from the country, into
lloathsome mass Of disease, ready for
the paupers grave.
In addition to the ten thousand pros
titutes, there are probably twenty thou
sand more who are either "kept mis-
tresses,n or the occasional freqnenters Of
houses of assignation. If the names OF
all these could be published, it would
make fearful quaking Gin society
and some knees would "smite together
behind brown-stone fronts and beneath
Paris laces. Some years ago New York
was horriiied at learning through the
press that q licentious man lad been
conducted to q room in house Of in
fanny in which he found his ora rife
waiting to receive the "wages of sin"
Neither one had suspected the infdelity
Of the other.
But it is not necessary to pry more
de eply under the crust, into this loath'
some mass of statistics. Let MS look at
causes and remedies. The prime cause
of this vice with one seX-and that the
guiliier sex-may be wicked outbreaks
of passion; hut with the other sex only
the minority are led to prostitution from
animal appetite. They are generally
badly educated. The love of fine dress
and the temptations of Incidence draw,
thousands into this wTetched mode o.
existence. Others are driven into 1t
by the ill-treatment of parents and
husbands. Large numbers were in the
first instance the victims of the sedu-
GERS wiles; for while society" passes by
the libertinc in tender mercy, it re-
morselessly tramplcs its victim under
foot. When tried to persuade one OF
these outcasts to return to her home,
some years since, she answered me, Il
can make living here-such as it is;
but if go back to my native town,
shall be thrust out of DOORS" Could
make any plausible replyf
In addition to all the causes of pros
titution already mentioned, the terrible
fact remains that fully One-fourth of
the lost women in London and New
York, are driven to the streets and to
the haunts of pollution, by the pressure
of poverty and want. More than one
woman i'll these over-crowded cities has
bad to decide between starvation and
the brothel, When work is scarce, and
the needle brings scanty food and fire,
what q terrible temptation there is for
poor seamstress or the sailors wife
to fill the half.dozen little hungry
mouths with the wages of her own
sin. She barriers her soul for bread.
Oh. We who in 'ceiled houses" are safe
from snch temptations only because ye
are safe from penury, be careful how
you hurl the stone of contempt ut those
who fall into crime through stress of
bitter suffering! And see to it too that
We never "grind the faces" of these poor
Isewing-women by offering the miserable
wages that do not yield more than o
crust of bread and "unwomanly rags"
Honest work with honest remuneration
would save more unhappy creatures
from the maelstrom of vice than all the
''asylums and retreats" in existence.
For those who are already vicious
and depraved, the asylum has been to
thousands door of hope and recovery.
The New York Magdalen Society
whose admirable Institution is in East
ssth street-have rescued a large num-
Der from infamy, and found for them o
home Of purity. The grace of him who
died for harlots, too, has often been
their safeguard and salvation. In Lon
don great work of reform has been
accomplished by midnight meetings.,
to which the prostitutes are invited,
and in which they are addressed with
Christian Kindness, and doors of escape
are opened to them. To one of these
meetings an afflicted mother sent her
own daguerreotype, in hopes that her
erring daughter would recognize the
face, and be won by its mute pIeadings
to bettor life. The picture was passed
around in several meetings, until at
last it met the eye for which it was in
tended, and the guilty girl broke into
tears, and set off for the home of her
childhood. Does every parent act in
this Christian spirit toward the sin of
wandering child'
If any of my readers wish to read an
admirable narrative of labors for the.
fallen, let them procure little volume
entitled "The Omniputence Of Loving
hluubccS. IL 10 tuC
lady's seven months work among the
abandoned women of Glasgow. 1t de-
picts the various arts employed to decoy
innocent girls into vice, and also the
heller art of perseyering Christian to
recover them. The book is intensely
interesting. -.t..t EtHet!
One of the brief narratives tells of
wretched girl who came to midnight
meeting for prayer. She was convert
ed, abandoned her horrid trade, went
into mill, and earned comfortable
livelihood. Going once to enquire
after fellow worker, who was sick,
she found the photograph of her own
brother ON the wall. "what are you
doing with my brothers picture there"
she inquired. "Your brother" said the
sick woman; che is ay brother"
ETHAN sa;d tho first eff he ia yOur