The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-09-14
A warning.

Jennie Cramer is the name Of a
young, beautiful and attractive lady
whose dead body was found mysteri-
ously floating in stream at New
Haven, Connecticut, few weeks
ago.
She was the petted child of fond
parents and popular companion
among the young men Of her home
circle. She was allowed, TO select
her own company and to have the
utmost liberty Of conduct in her as
sociatiDns. 81
She was not "fast7 as the term
goes-she was like thousands of 9th.
er girls, only gay She accepted
promiscuously the companyof young
men who were fond Of sport and a
good time without regard to their
character or the place or kind Of
amusement to which they led her.
Her parents never seemed to have
conceived the idea Of her falling un.
der evil influences, or much less that
reputation or life were in danger un,
til called to drag her dead body out
of the stream.
How she cameto such an end is an
inquiry still shrouded in mystery
BY some she is supposed to have
been foully dealt with by her male
companions, by others that she com.
mitted suicide.
But an equally important INQUIRY
is suggested by her fate; and that is,
whether there are not thousands Of
young ladies in almost every com.
munity who, like Jennie Cramer,
are left BY their parents entirely
without supervision or care as to the
crmpanions and influences surround.
ing them?
This fac. is pressed home upon any
one who observes the thousands Of
young men and ladies promenading
the public streets of our cities at all
hours of the evening-we were about
to say all hoursof the night. Young
ladies in their "teens," with their
arms atectionateIy clasped by the
hand OF gushing young men, who
seem to make special etlor, to adver-
tise to the public by their attitude
and their airs that they are admitted
TO special familiarity with the ladies
they have in charge.
Many young ladies who submit to
and permit such manners, or ill.man-
ners, on the street from their escorts
don't know any better; they don't
know that such familiarity on the
part of q gentleman is gross; that it
is positive evidence on the part Of
the man who practices it either of
grossly, stupidity or criminal du-
plicity.
A young man has no business to
grasp the arm of a young lady for the
purpose Of escorting her through the
street. Such manners, to say the
least, are cloud" A nice sense of
propriety will not suggest or permit
it. A young lady who has not dis
cretion enough to repulse such ap.
proaches ought to have her father or
big brother about to command Glands
off" The great danger of the times
is this growing lack of a sense of
propriety on the partof young ladies'.
They may think to enhance their
personal attractions and win the af
fections of the opposite sex by a free
dom, and certain degree of abandon
in their manners, but they more
often lose the respect of those who
are really worthy of their regard, BY
a lack of maiden dignity and pro.
priety. There is always danger to
daughters who are mingling in pro-
miScous society without this high
sense of propriety which every lady
should possess and enforce on the
part of her companions. Jennie Ora
mer's fate will become more fire.
quent event when parents have
ceased to- observe and inform them.
selves of the compauionship and con-
duct of their daughters who are ming
ling in society Wheeling Register.