Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-05-17

how it is i'll other cities, but l know il
New York there are plenty in my buSi'
ness who would send you any innocent
girl if they we're only paid enough fol
it. You might better come and see me
week from this time, as there are sew
eral ladies who have spoken to me, and
would like 10 see them and talk to
them about it,
Madame Evans professed to enter,
tain some scruples, and said she knew il
was very generally practiced, but she
didn't like the idea of corruptinS any
one. She advised the reporter 90 sdver'
tise.
'Of course (she said there will he a
great many of all kind that will answer
il; but then there are often schoolgirl iris
that DO 30, just for fun, aud drop of
before they know it,
She thought, however. that if lie
would be satisfied with what she could
for him, he might call again, and she
would see what she could DO,
Madame Watts is a negressr and boast
ed that all classes visited her, from la
dies ia carriages to servant girls
when some ladies', she said, come,
may see i'll the cards all about them;
but if I tell them they are not wholly
straight, they will deny it.
This city has changed great deal
within the past few years; it is nowhere
near as moral as it used 60 DC. would
not like to say that the public schools
did il; but those school girls are about
as wild a set IS you can find anywhere,
and are more likely TO become bad
than good
As regards shOp-girls, in her opinion,
you would have TO hunt to find one in
twenty who was all right She thought
she could iiud what the reporter wanted,
but the best way was to let the young
lady live at home, she said,
For If she is young, from fifteen TO
seventeen, and leaves them entirely,
the first thing you know she Is on the
town. She can't keep still; but If she
has money TO spend she wants to make
a show
Madame Widger vas certain she could
obtain what was required. She had
kind Of matrimonial office, and had
then about twenty names registered.
You needn't let the namo 'matrimo-
nisp frighten yon,' she said; of course
it has to come under the head, and once
in a while two persons will marry
It was sometimes little difficult, she
said, 20 induce young girls 10 enter into
her arrangements, and required several /
visits; but the photograph of the gentle
man had grear effect; when she sees
that, she said:
She begins to get a little interested,
and perhaps asks questions about him;
and then find out where she lives' and |
try to make some sort of an appoint !
ment. When the gentleman comes
again tell him to go around and see
her, and il he likes her, why after
awhile they generally 20 of together.
I don't know where they go to; it isn't
any of my business.
Madame Jones admitted that she had /
done d good deal in this way; she said
that she got letter from gentleman
wishing her services, and he was to call
on Sunday night.
4 had but very little trouble she
said, because what he wanted was very |
easily obtained. Most persons wouldn't
care for it though, He wanted me 10
find a young girl from ten TO twelve
years ofage. A woman is going 10
bring me one Oh Sunday evening"
The reporter visited other places, with /
much the came results; for all these
women entertained the lowest estimate 1
of human character. An instance, to
show that the evil is not negative, is
afforded by the fact that a letter was re-
ceived at the Tribune of1ie, q few days
since, from one Of the most prominent |
physicians in this city, stating that an
had been made by one Of these
creatures to mislead his adopted daugh-
ter, a girl of about fourteen years Of age.
The little girl, while on her way to |
school, was met several times by an
other girl who asked her TO come and
have her fortune told, and who at last
placed in the chiId's hands paper con-
tanning a list of questions So arranged /
as TO excite her youthful imagination.
These she had been requested to write
10, and il was thus that the
matter was discovered and the plot
frustrated.-M Y. Express.