Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1876-09-05
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what 0irls Gatu by Chessing she
life - a Picture Or Two Of ies
DelightA

A few days since a NEWS reporter ia
search Of an item entered the parior oil .
brothel on d street. Virginia. A hand
some Mexican girl. barely twenty-four
years old. lay dead there. The corps
rested upon the lii Of q pine conn ooA
| furnished by the undertaken. Mtne Hi''s
feet half a dozen wax tapers giimmerea
| family in a branching candle~iiek. he
tween the dead fingers . withered bouquet
hal been thrust. The night before the girl
had swallowed a doz- Of morphine. An
| IA woman. dressed in white. with arun-
cisl flowers in her scanty dyed hair saf
nra, ! brokensrringed. hair-cloth sofa.
III .impsred behind q heavy coat Oh
yonc,. Three men. with their hats on
,il,.,l hack their chairs. smoked their
ciy.r. and .pat upon the worn and stained
Rru..el. CARPET. A few badly painted
iswJ mixtures hung upon the soiled walls.
. ,aIi looking-glass hal been covered with
. .he.t ont Of some vague sentiment OF
reverence for death. Now and again . re-
ror,sr. the Coroner's clerk, . policeman.
on some fashily dressed young man with
| an evil al uuhcaitu, iese saaeaaet "a shu
went ou, again. This was the end VI
A life Of "gildei sim" Reporters ar'n't
much given 10 mofalizing. and perhaps
| the youth employed by the NEWS Ia more
| susceptible than most VI his tribe. but he
| couldn't help thinking that II . photo.
graph % that room could have been taken
and scattered by thousands over the coun-
try, IL would have made . very powerful
sermon. shabby. iM-furnished and dirty
As the place Was. IL was as gOol a. thrte-
quarters IL such houses ever are, and the
dead girl had been far from being the low
est Of her class. The place was even q cut
above those where Winter and summer
after nightfall the door remains open and
tine gaudy occupant sits In half-dressed
discomfort Affecting 20 read . book or o.
tentaiiously petlng a shivering little dog.
while she waits for the foolish ty 10
come. some letters to her mother
anil sister. left by the girl, were
we'll written and as full Of honest al
lection as II thu writer hal not been what
she was. She saw what was coming and
knew that only death could save from the
| hideous fate 81 her class-down from N.
eitement and good clothes 10 whisky and
no good clothes : to old age with whisky
| and food as scarce as the wolf OF the
| steppes finds food In the Russian Winter
then death In the streets or the Jail or the
| public hospital. Another girl had taken
poison the same night. but had been saved
| IRON death. which she will wish. In time.
| she had not. Some months before, the
| reporter learned. she had left . good home
10 live with q man with whom she WAS In
fAtuated. The girl Was propped up In .
bed In a little basement. the only light al
mitied 10 IL being from . grating In the
sidewalk overhead. She was comely and
and intelligent looking. She had
chosen this rather than an hon.
est life. The moral Of these
two instances Is that there isn't . great
deal Of gilt on a life Of "gilded sin."
| There Is not q miners or mechanics wife
ON the Comstock,. If her husband il sober
and industrious. who does not have vastly
more Of the comforts Of life than these
foolish creatures who throw over virtue
for the luxuries supposed to follow. pros
titutiOn. Even in the finest Of the houses
| devoted 10 lust and riot the girls are slaves
| 10 their keepers. being constantly in debt
and Kept under a surveillance worse than
that Of the police and even more trying
than work. There Is very little virtue In
being yirtuous when tho facts are known.