The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-06-03

l My nearb mas Deen almost DrOken to-day
for the first time for twenty-five years
have been tempted to do wrong | SAID
why? Because have not place to lay
my head. I am stranger in the city,
and I came here to get work went into
a shop and though had TO pay five dol
lars week for my board, could only get
four dollarsfor my work, and I came out
and have been travelling for several days,
and had to-day only one small piece OF
bread. met gentleman in the street,
and he said: Where are you going?' ]
said 1 was hunting for work and a board
ing place. He said, come with me, and
he showed me a room splendidfy furnish
ed, and said: you stop here, and I'll
pay your board. / said upon what terms
that you may come and visit me? He
said yes, that | may spend an evening
with you I said, No, sir Applause. ]
That is the way many women 60 astray-
because they cannot get money to buy
their clotheswith, or pay their, board.
And my heart aches, and / have longed
for this opportunity to speak to the pub
lie through the press. I felt then as if
my soul would burst within me, and I said
to her, trust in God and His angels, and a
way will beopened for you. l gave her
board and lodging with myself. q Tap
plause. So it is with hundreds of thous-
ands, could I tell secrets. And now
friends, fathers and mothers, what if that
had been one of your daughters II IS
time that something was done. When I
pass out into the evenings, and have been
out late, my heart bounded when have
heard the resistance of these poor girls
saying: Z cannot do this great wrong |!
cannot do this great wrongl' Yet it
was necessity that drove them to that stu !
alton I do not believe that my sex are so
bad that they are so sensuous that they
of themselves will go astray Applause
Very many of the town ladies, as they
are called, have hearts that are pure, but
it is necessity that drove them to thier
course of life and keeps them there.
They feel that their character is gone, and
that no one looks upon them with com
passion. Now, it is time that all females
are aroused to the subject. I am glad
that something has commenced to be
done, and pray Almighty God that it
may 90 on until there is home for every
woman in Boston. IF some homes were
provided until they could get work it
would be beautiful thing. I feel that
our race is running out. Many come to
me, and treat them for no disease. II L,
only said: ''How do you dress (take that
first, has nobody said anything to you
about it?' They say: no. treat them
in this respect and send them away re-
joicing. am thankful to-day for the
privilege of telling these things that
people may know Them People may
speak disrespectfully of the girls in the
street, as they pass to their work, but
they are innocent; they are innocent
They come from the country and find that
they cannot clothe themselves, and my
heart bleads for them The old lady sat
down much affected. g GfAa a1a
TERRIBLE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS.
Mrs Thayer said that she had a young
lady friend who, after trying to get sit
uation as book keeper, where she was of
fered two dollars week, went to aChris-
tian man who employed girls, to make
overalls. 1t took the speaker two hours
and half to make one Of The garments,
and she considered herself good sewer;
and how much was given to her friend?
Only five cents apiece. She found that
she would have to work twelve or four
teen hours a day for her board. She could
have got into a basement kitchen, but the
speaker said she advised her not TO go, as
they are very unhealthy, receiving all the
bad malarious air from the cellar. She
then took her young friend around to sew
eral places to get her situation in q good
place, but the answer returned was: 81
prefer Irish or colored girls" Some Of the
ladies in the town told friend of mine,
said Mrs. t., that they could not take a
real decent. good looking, intelligent glrl
into their houses, on account of their hus-
bands. / have known women whose flesh
on their lower limbs has rotted off in con-
sequence of the great amount of standing
in the factories, and / never knew1a facto.
ry girl who was able to raise a healthy
family. Those who work a few years are
ruined. would not advise any girl to
go into factory and work eleven hours
a day. They might as we'll commit sui
eide at once. There are too many girls in
Boston. If a girl is learned she can be-
come teacher, but then she only receives
one quarter what the men get. If she is
handsome and attractive she can 90 on the
stage. A young friend of mine took that
course, and she got four dollars week,
but managers look upon them all as girls
of the town.
THE OTHER SIDE.
| Professor Wetherell, editor of the Cul-
tioator was the next speaker He said
that he had been told that the wages of
coat makers were $40 to $20a week, and
right opposite his Office there was a sign
hanging out asking for these coat-makers;
SO he thought there were two kinds of
facts. If there are coat-makers working
for 37scents garment, when they can get
all the way from SO to $40 week he
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