The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-01-09

but the opera has divine charms for her musi-
cal ear, and abe Ia eeesrtea night after night by
msa with pleasing face and q ready tengues
She 10 yet "a white - the lndriven snow. One
night she takes midnight sleigh ride on the
road, and they stop ct . faahienable looking
restaurant in Harlem Lane or on the road
She is persuaded to take glass of champagne
She is finally persuaded to drink an entire bot
tie of champagne. That night the world il tern
from under her feet She has tasted the apple
of death. She returns to her peaceful home by
the silken waves of the Sound q dishonsred wo-
man. .-.-.....4,-
To hide her shame she returns to New York,
but her destroyer has goue-she knows not
whittier. Then the struggle begins for existence
and bread. She Is q seamstress, dry goods
clerk, but her shame finds her out when an in
FAINT is born to her unnamed. One night, hun
cry and torn with the struggle Of lost hope,
she rushes into tho street and seeks the river On
lone pier she seeks refuge from her ''lsst life"
The night watchman, anxious about the cotton
AID resin confided to his charge does not hear
the cry of "mothsr" from "a Departing girl, or
the plunge into the gloomy, silent river below.
She 10 not fouad for several days After, and thor
her once fair face is knawsd threadbare with the
incisors of crabs, and the white neck, round
cd AZ pillar Of glory, is . mere greenish mass
Of fostering corruption. She 10 not recognized,
and she thus fills the page devoted to missing
people.
Then there are the cases Of girls who dissap-
pear from their homes outside Of New York, and
descend int her brothsls, whore they find rich
raiment, rich food; . merry and unceasing round
Of gaity; champagne-and lovers, which they
could never hope for where they came from.
These girls leave home very often through SEN
ssality or laziness-for girls are lazy as well as
boys-and when missing are generally found in
brOthels, which ~ Q general thing they will not
leave for their parents Then there are hus-
bands and wives who quarrel foolishly and sep
arats to vsx each other, and are missing for
years. to finally be forced into other illegal ties
And there Ia Q case of ysung man, twenty, mar
ried and rich, who leaves his wife, is gone for
twelve months, and is found in New Orleans,
when he tells those who find him that he has
been very sick, and was forced to leave his hap
Ply home.
There is also, rs it is we'll known, great mum.
Dor Of infamous houses in this city where abor.
ton il openly practiced, and where whole heea-
tombs Of innocent children are slaughtered to
hide the shame of their guilty mothers How
many wealthy and refined girls are to be found
in these slaughterhssses, concealed there to hide
the evidences Of their indiscretion, by their pa
rents or relatives, whose social position would be
lost did the consequences of such indiscretion
show themselves. The mothers are left to die in
agony, again and again, and there is No coroners
inquest public burial, for are there not scores
of obliging physicians to hush the matter up.
And then again oar private lunatis asylums !!
How many men and women are spirited away
to those tombs of living men, where remembrance
clamor is useless unless the pupic press tracks
the injury, as in the case of we'll known naval
officer whe was most unjustly confined, a. the
Investigation proved.