The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-11-13
A STRANGE STORY.
A Young Girl Interviews an OmceT
and Asks Permission to Enter q
House of Ill Fame

There ia probably no station in lie that
affords n better opportunity for the study o
human nature than that OF Tie City Recor-
dership. lie is beset with all classes Of
people, with all sorts of complaints. prayers
and requests, End on him depends the fate
OF more than one person. As evidence OF
this fact, the St. Joe Gasete cites an occur
renee which took place in the City Recor-
der's rooms Of tina, place, few days since
The Judge had just concluded the trial
of a civil case. and the plaintiff and
defendant with their friends, had left the
room, when the door opened, and hand
some young girl. about Is years Of age
with rosy cheeks and hazel eyes, entered
and requested to zee the Recorder. The
clothes she wore we're plain, though scrupu-
lou.ly neat and tidy. After placing his
books and papers in the drawer, the Judge
wheeled around in his easy chair and said,
"Well?" The girl approached, and in
low hut determined voice, and without a
tince Of shame on her rudy cheeks, stated
that she had come to ask his permission to
enter bawdy house. A nervous witch OF
his cheek showed that the Judge was COM
pletely done for. He h.d probably been
inierviewed BY as many people and on a.
many different subjects as any other man in
q similar position. but never had he before
been beset by such a request.
He asked her reason for such a step.
She said .he was tired OF working for a
living, and she was determined to 20, but
had thought best to ask his consent. A
long conversation followed. She was living
with her stepmother, on South Tenth
street; had communicated her intention to
her before leaving home; her father was in
St. Louis, and she had brother at Bruins
wick.
Judge Fleming expOstulated with her,
wildly pictured the result that must surely
follow such rash step, the vicissitudes shs
would necessarily haveto undergoin that lite
Of shame and degradation, but to no avail
and the words Of charitable counsel were
cast aside like so much chat. For more
than an hour did the Judge talk to her
and finally, after good deal OF persuasion
she was prevailed upon to return to hel
home, as innocent a she now i, and await thu
action OF her mother at Brunswick, I,
whom the Judge said he would write ii tbs
girl would agree to go and live with him
to which she consented.
During the conversation she did not seen
} bashful in the least on the contrary, va
very determined, until the last moment, AM
) when the Recorder offered to find her
J home where she would not have to worl
hard, she declined, and it was through grea
coaxing that she was prevailed upon 4
hear him through, and more than once di'
she ask the same question, il he would le
! her enter such place.
This young girl has sister who enters
one of the notorious bagnos of this cit
! some time ago. by the consent Of her father
! full and true account OF which appears
, in the Gasetts at the time, and 1t must Gel
iainly be very strange stepmother and
: very degraded father, Who would allow hi
) daughter, 4 young and beautiful girl jus
budding into womanhood, to enter upon
life OF shame and degrada,ions, as this on
wants to do, without word Of opposition
Il Is to be hoped she will reconsider be
e raeh determination, and grow up to be
: pure and virtuous woman.
An old Baltimore negro Who had em
!, grated 70 Libesis yean ago, ordered
ouantity Of Dr.. BulIs CouRh Syrup \ shol