The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1882-07-13
scarching a Girl for Poison.

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ycnr ago Jennie Cramer We s the most beau
tifui girl In New Haven, and today IL Gabriel
should blow his trumpet he wouldn't DO ablc
10 got enough OF hor together to make quo
rum. Girls who are taking the chances that
POOR Jennie took, every day, by taking vino
baths inside, bought for them by young, brain
less spendthrifts, had best think over tho case
OF Jennie, and imagine how they would liko to
bo analysed the way she has been. From tho
testimony before tho Nalley entertainment, II
appears that her brain was given TO one doctor
TO sift, her lungs TO anothcr her heart to an.
other her liver went begging for q Gus.
toner, and her body was divided up
into choice cuts, her bones sent TO bone
boiler with NJ. d. attached TO his name,
and there probably Is not enough left of tho
poor girl TO wad gun. 1t is awful to think OF
the way that child was cut up, and boiled, and
fried, and friccasccd, and roasted, aud sifted
through culionder TO md traces OF poison.
And during the testimony before the Moot
court every nllusion TO any part OF tho dcnd
Girl which had been treated by the physIc
sharps, smiles would adorn tho faces of tho
prisoners and their friends, the jury would
laugh, and the audience, composed mostly of
women, would blush behind fans as each organ
of Jennie's was discussed, and evidence given
as TO tho search for foreign substances that
would kill. There are thousands OF fool girls
that think they know more than whole
benefited II they were taken across some-
body's knee and compelled TO listen 20 the
reading OF tho life OF Jennie Cramer from the
time she first got mashed on the twolegged
jackass, until her body was cut Into u thousand
pieces TO Ind out what allied her. About tho
first step that young girl takes that is wrong,
IL TO get an idea that she knows more than her
mother, and that the old lady is n shack num-
ber," and don't know anything about the fun
OF being out night and swilllng bser, swallow
ing hghwines, and riding In q rcd buggy
with q horse that will drive himself,
whether anybody has hold of the line or
not. The girl is liable to DO deceived In tho
old lady. That estimable person no doubt
knows all about 1t, and knows what n fool 1t
makes OF a girl. And when girl Will not
listen kindly to advice from hor mother,
she should have the conceit taken out OF
her with a press-board. II Jennie Cramer's
mother had taken her girl across her knee
tho first timo she rcbelled, and taken a
bedslat and knocked the wind out OF her
paper hustle, and spread the hustle all over
The small OF her back, and sat her down In n
hard bottom chair go hard that the filling had
fallen out o I her upper teeth. Jonnio would be
alive to day, and about this time In the after
noon she would be wiping the dinner dishes
and singing "Mother, is the Battle Over" or
mending tho heels OF her fathers stockings;
or, II her mother had taken her by the hand
and kindly told her that these Malleys were a
couple OF galvanized aristocrats who cared nc
more for her than they did for a dog, except te
hug her and to muss her up, the girl would
| have let them alone, and would now be happy n
home. But the old lady seemed to have made
| her so she had q bettor time out doors thar
| she did In the house, and now there Is no
| enough left OF her TO bait n minnow hook. Il
| mothers set about II right they can cause
| girl to do about as she ought to, but too manJ
| OF them talk n girl blind, and never give hei
| chance TO rally. Girls who have symptoms
OF being prematurely quick, should ponde
| over Jennie Cramer, and imagine how the,
| would look cut up Into slices not biggerNthar
| n cove oyster, and set away In sealed bottles