Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-07-31
The Duty Of American Mothers.

One night not long ago, young girl in a
haunt of vice, in Philadelphia, accidentally
while at supper put her foot on a parlor
match, which set fire to her clothing. An.
! other girl, who ran to her rescue, shared her
fate; their dresses We're of thin material and
blazed over their heads while they fled
| shrieking to the street, and there burned
slowly to death. The men, their compan-
ions, stood by and offered no help. The
significant part of this horrible story is that
both women were young, attractive, of good
birth and social position, both educated
Zone graduate of Vassar College, both
had left homes of comfort and ease, hus-
bands and children, voluntarily, to take up
this mode of life, which in their case could
boast of no attractive gliding. The house
in which they met their terrible fate was
one Of the lowest of their class the men
whom they chose as friends belonged to a
wretched negro minstrel show-degraded
cowardly brutes who stood off in safety
watching them die Only two or three days
ago the police records of our own city told
an even more pitiable tale. A father found
his daughter in an infamous place, and
strove by legal means to take her out. She
defed him, the courts sustained her. and
she went out gayly from the court room with
her vile companions, gggling at the dis
comfture of the broken-hearted father and
brother, who stood with heads bowed in
shame as they passed by.
The most frightful fact in our social life
faces us in these stories. 1t is that there
are women in this lowest deep who are not
driven there by want or cruelty, nor led
there by betrayed affection; women who
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