Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-11-24

when he desired such freedom would it not
have been the more Christian course, and
would not Mrs. Crittenden have loved her for
so doing. l tell you, my friends, that you
have taken hold of the wrong end of this
business. have better right to speak, as
one having authority in this matter. since it
has been my province to study it in all ITS
various lights and shades. When practiced
cairvoyance, hundreds, ay thousands of des-
olate, heart-broken men came TO me for adj
vice. Misses, cheers and laughter. Some
may think that it is better to keep the SEM
blancc of husband or wife. even if il be not
a lover. Such is not my philosophy. | ad-
dress myself to such as have souls. II you
belong to the other sort take advice of
Tombs lawyer, and not of me-.
have learned that the trst great error
most married people commit is in endeavor-
ing to hide from each other the little irregu-
larities into which all are liable to fall
laughter since nothing is so conducive to
continuous happiness as mutual confidence.
II our sisters who inhabit Greenes st and other
filthy localities choose to remain in debauch,
and if our brothers choose to visit them
there, they are only exercising the same
right that we exercise i'll remaining away, and
we have no more right to abuse them than
they have to abuse and condemn us for exer-
cisihg our rights our way. Storms of Kisses
But we should by our love and kindness en-
deavor to prevail upon them to desert those
ways. Let me ask of husbands if they think
there would be $4,000 women of the town
supported by them, if their wives were am
bilious to have an equal number OF men of
the town to support, and for the same pur-
poses. l tell you, nay. The good women of
one of the interior cities of New York some
two years since organized movement TO put
down prostitution, and tried by stratagem to
find out who visited houses of prostitution,
in order to ostracise them. They pushed the
matter until they found their own husbands,
brothers and sons involved, and then sudden
ly desisted, and nothing has since been heard
of the eradication of prostitution in that city.
Laughter. The same experience tried here
would result in the same. What can be more
terrible than for delicate, sensitively organ
lied woman to be compelled to endure the
presence of beast in the shape of a man,
who knows nothing beyond the blind passion
with which he is filled, and to which is often
added the delirium of intoxication? Men
who, before marriage, preserve delicacy and
regard for womanly sensitiveness and refine
ment too often after marriage show them
selves in their true character, and prove to be
little better than beasts; and thousands of
pallid cheeks, sunken eyes, distorted imagi-
nations and diseased functions testify to the
truth of what l say.
At the conclusion of the lecture the vast
audience still remained, shouting for Mrs.
Brooker, who finally stepped to the front Of
the box, and bowling, delivered parting sho t
81 would ask" said she, how can we re-
form the Greene-st women she speaks of, and
at the same time teach them to live promis-
cuously with menu" prolonged cheers for
Mrs. BROKER. Mr. Triton then announced
that tho exercises were over, and the audi
ence reluctantly dispersed.