The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-01-06
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

/ Christmas Week-An Indux of Country
| Cousins-A Would he Suicide Gets Mar
| ried-A Factory Scandal-Fair Recruits
for the Salvation ArmyA Royal Visitor
Good Joke ON u Lawyer, Etc.
New YORK, December so, 1882
EDITOR CHIEF:
Ring out, oh, Christmas bells, ring
out! Startle the echoes of night with
your CHEEKY notes. ALI hail! All hail !!
to the grandest and most sacred holiday
of all the year. Sad indeed must be the
heart that feels no responsive throb in
this glad and joyous season. know not
IL it is the announcements that Christ has
come again, but tue hearts of Jew and
Gentile seem to expand. and grow more
liberal as they listen to tho sweet music
of the Christmas bells.
We can think of nothing but Santa
Clans this week; perhaps it would be
quite as we'll for us if we could spend
more time with the children and less
with grown up folks. The stocking and
the Christmas tree are the most il,-
portant matters now, and there are
thousands of good, kind souls in this
great city whose special mission it is to
see that there are no empty stockings in
New York but with oil their care there
will be thousands right here within a.
stones throw of the Trinity chimes who
have never heard that Christ has risen,
and could not toll you the reason of the
ringing OF the bells.
Costly indeed are the displays in all
the shop windows; ricll1and rare are the
goods that meet your eyes at every turn.
In fact it is enough to prive q moderate
man distracted. don't know how it is
with other peoples wives, but whenever
my wife looks in u shop window if there
is Kohinoor diamond in sight, worth
three or four millions of dollars, or u
cancels hair shawl that wonld serve for
u turban for the Imam Of Muscat, that
is just exactly the thing she wants, and
nothing else.
Our country cousins are here in full
force; it may he that they are seeking
revenge OIL those who descended Oh them
in July and devoured their apple pies
and doughnuts as the locusts of Egypt
devoured tho substances of the land no
doubt they will he amply revenged be-
fore they return topasturo.
You may possibly recollect that last
week spoke of the case of a young wo-
man who attempted To commit suicide,
and on conviction was sentenced to six
months in the penitcntiary the affair
took u new phase on Tuesday when the
girl was brought into court. Her faith
less lover, for whose sake she was willing
to cross the Styx, relented of his cruelty
and mae the offer to tie Judge to take
her for better or for worse if the Judge
would only suspend ssntence. AS this
would relieve the country of considerable
expense his Honor tAought it u wise
thing to do, sole called the couple before
him, and just as he was about to tie the
nuptial knot the Dutch,nan fell down III
a fit, but after pouring about a quart oil
schnapps down his throat lie revived
sufficiently to say "yaw," when the
Judge asked him if he would take the
woman for better or for worse, and OIL
tue conclusion of the ceremony the pail
Departed smiling, for the husbands
saloon, satisfied that though "the course
of true love never did ruiz SMOOTH" YET
"Alls well that ends WE'LL"
A shocking phase Of our city life was
brought to light last week in the trial Of
Benjamin Schlesinger for the seduction
Of Katie Holthuson. Schlesinger EN-
ployed over hundred girls, and tht
revelations of the trial were Of the most
shocking and revolving character. The
astonishing part Of it is that girls having
any self-respect could submit for months
and years to such degrading associations
Our American girls seem to have per
feet horror of domestic service, and yet
there are thousands and thousands Of then
who will submit to all sorts Of petty
tyranny and degradation rather thar
have honor and respect and comforta
BILE home in domestic service. If the
revelations of cur city factory life, al
given on the Schlesingsr trial may bt
considered fair sample, God help tn,
man who chooses wife from sucl
tainted stock far better and more hon
CRADLE the condition of the hnmblest
dish washer than tho best paid lady il
any Of these abominahfe dens. There
are good women aud true by thousand.
at work in these places, women whose
lives are one long and holy sacrifice
but the fault is all their own-there ar
hundreds Of thousands Of homes in til,
United States to which they would b'
, gladly welcomed if it were not for tn
fact that they esteem domestic labor
degradation. Most of these women ant
girls look forward to some time liavin:
il home of their own, and not one in fifty
is qualified to take care Of it or make il
IL happy home for poor man, even j
they should ever achieve it; they coult
a not cook potato or broil steak, o
a make q decent cup of coffee, the etuca
ton for home life that they might acquir
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