Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-31

| AFRAID 10 go home, wandered about tn
streets until she was accosted by China
man, who persuaded her to accompany hin
to his laundry Once there he obtaine,
complete control over her, and she had beer
living with him for several months whel
the case was brought TO our notice
Il could give long list Of similar cases
| Every one who reads the newspaper
knows how whenever Chinese opium Join
| is raided by the police number of Caucas
ian girls are always found, usually tht
daughters Of respectable parents. A hack
| man was the means Of rescuing girl iron
| the clutches OF :. Chinamau only a shor
| time ago. Wun Lung had decoyed mel
from home of luxury and refinemen. il
| Providence. On arriving in this city ht
| got his victim into a carriage and toid 'ht
! hackman to drive to his laurdrr in Moi
| drove TO police station and he ChiuamaE
! was placed behind the iron bars, while the
| girl was restored to her parents
| 1t is the desire for dress that leads most
| young girls down the rolti to rain The
| speaker was Superintendent Blake of the
| department of charities and corrections of
| the city of New York, the man who. of all
| others, in this country is best quail flied &c
| speak on this subject, having for years past
| been brought into daily contact with q great
number of girls of the unfortunate class. -
| "A desire for fine dress See1s to be the
| ruling passion OF most young women he
continued. Many of them Will do anything
in order 10 crafty it, just as the confirmed
drunkard will resort to anything to satisfy
his craving fer liquor. We hear . great
deal OF fine defamation against the rum
seller aud about the number of souls ne
ruins annually and the vast amount of mis-
cry ne causes, but why is it nobody ever
says anything against the great dry goods
and trimmings merchants, who by their
80 ,n.s-
poor, foolish girls through the weakest side
OF their natures!
Il firmly believe that if the matter could
be fully investigated and accurate statistics
obtained 1t would DE found that the proprie-
tors OF these great stores devoted TO the sale
Of goods for ladies are quite as directly
responsible for the ruin of quite rs large Il
number of souls annually as are the rum
sellers. They cause quite as much misery.
too, and OF much worse kind: for many Il
married woman not only SquanderS upon
personal adornment her husbands hard
earnings, which should be devoted TO max
ing home and children comfortable, but is
finally led astray to crafty her passion Cor
dress.
DANCING SCHOOLS
and the public balls and dances given by
various social Clubs and organizations are
most prolific means of leading young
women to ruin. SO are the dime museums, the
matlnees at the tirSt-claSS theaterS-in short
any place to which young girls are foolisnly
allowed to 90 alone, unacoompanied by
proper chaperones, including even churches
and Sunday-schools. You will wonder at
my mentioning these last two places, but
you have no idea how many wolves in
Sleeps clothing there are within the folds
Of our churches. and / have known many
young women who traced their ruin to their
visits to some church or Sunday-school.
AlFan .,An -l,oi- 70,
ter is that the folly, righteousness, I'M
wisdom, over-contidence or indifference of
parents is responsible nine times out of ten
for the ruin OF their daughters Those
daughters may be Cnas and NirginiaS TO the
backbone, but they must be protected
against their own ignorance. their own in
nocence, their very selves, until they have
learned something of life and its dangers
and to know the look of bird lime ard how
to avoid snareS.
1T IS amazing that any parent should be
so careless and stupid as to allow their
young daughters to attend any places of
public resort without proper escort and
oversight, no matter whether those places
be theaters or churches, young girls are
pretty sure to become the victims of bruteS
in human shape if left to walk the streets,
10 roam in the parks, or to frequent many
places That are harmless in themselves,
without somebody 20 look after them
These human sharks are en- the 7.atch
everywhere to seize the innocent and ines-
perienced and compass their moral destruc-
ton, and parents with brains enough to tt
them TO become parents at all should expect
ii. Because girls have been led to ruin by
visiting churches and skating Kinks that is
no reason why either of those excellent in
situations should be suppressed. Il is the
parents who have permitted their daugh- |
tiers to visit them unattended that are to |
l.s1n, &c +tx, I,,af Is
guide the inexperienced feet of their chill |
dreE2through their years of immaturity, |
and those who fail 10 90 this will be very /
likely TO have cause to mourn the straying |
Of their daughters.
THE SRCAD ROAD To RUIN.
'1t is because parents OF the lower and !
middle classes are the more neglectful in !
this respect That he great majority OF the !
army of the lost is recruited from that Dor-
tlon Of society. Among the upper class
girls are usually so carefully watched and
guarded that the chance of their straying is /
reduced TO minimum. Though human
nature is precisely the same among all |
classes, it is for the reason named above
hat the statement that quite as many girls
20 to the bad among the rich as among the
Door is untrue.
"A great many more girls start ont on
he road to ruin i'll summer than in winter
The Sunday-SchoCl picnic, the moonlight |
Dicnic and excursion, the evening stroll in
he park and other similar diversions pecu-
lar TO summer are responsible for this
"A large number of those who enter the |
'oad to ruin in large cities are country
iris. You will remember that it was
'ountry girl whose career Hogarth depicted
n his inimitable series Of pictures. the
'Harlot's Progress These girls come 20
he city in search of employment, ana fail
ng to find 1t, and fascinated by the CAV life,
# the town, they are determined to re-
main, no matter at what hazard
But it is not only girls for whom pitfalls
re spread, and who are in danger in Q
arge city. There are countless human
hanks lying in wait for the boys also
There was the case of little Eddie Null
earn, who was coaXed away by 4 Bowcry
riminal who wanted to make thief OF
i'm, and who trained him just as Dickens
escribes the training of little Oliver Twist
" F'agin, the old Jew fence. When his
ducation was deemed complete, he was
ent out every day 10 steal, and if he re-
urned empty handed his brutal master
randed him with a red hot iron might
multiply such cases indefinitely, but have
aid enough to show that childhood and
outh has hard row to hoe in big cities.
nd should be zealously guarded
GEoFFREY WuLIsIoN CHRISTINE.
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