The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-01

strange country to take position as
maid-servant; when she is well she goes
back to her old life, returns to the hos
pital perhaps three or four times, and
eventually comes there to die. Can you
do anything but pity her? You an honored
wife, loved mother, how can you say
one word against here Put yourself in
her place and think out the riddle
Sometimes the other woman comes
from better class of society; she is we'll
educated and was well born, and she
traces her downfall almost invariably to
her love for man. 1t seems to me that
when this happens surely there ought to
be forgiveness; and yet there very sell
dom is. The mother who has never had
temptation hurls all the huge stones of
invective at the daughter who is weak,
and then the daughter becomes the other
woman. Who was the man? Was it
your son or mine2 Was it your brother or
mine? Sometimes the man is what he
calls true to her; that is, for three, five,
six or ten years he gives her whatever
love he has, accepts her faithfulness and
love and then when he wishes a wife to
sit at the head of his table reminds her
of what she has been to him and takes to
bear his name, young and innocent
woman. He tries to cure the leprosy with
lily.
IS BRECKENRIDGE GUILTY OR MOTIF
For weeks past the newspapers have
been full of the story of young woman
who says she was for nine long years alb
solutely faithful to man who betrayed
her when she was II years old, by whom
she bore two living children, and for
whom she lied, even to her mother. Now
he has married somebody else. l know
nothing about the truth of her story; I
only say that if it is true, then | hope
nUpTV man in X pptI1OlyHy will holm fo 1vuob
him. l am not given, as a general thing,
to sickly sentimentality, but the betrayal
of girl of IL by man of AZ, a brilliant
man, man whom she had always re-
spected and honOred because of his posi-
ton in her state, seems to me something
very dreadful. And the giving of nine
years of the best part of her life to him
should at least have had its reward by
her bearing his name and by the recogni-
tion of their children. Remember, l do
not think this would have wiped away
the SIM both would have suffered for
that, even in this world; but cannot un-
derstand how man can so utterly disre-
gard the rights of love and the rights of
his children, as to willfully force this girl
into acknowledging that she was the 9TH
er woman. Again say, l don't know
that the story is true but do say if it is,
this man ought to be made to suffer here,
as he certainly will hereafter
A while ago, l was up at the Maternity,
aud talking to Sister Irene of the women
who came there. She told me that the
greater number Of those who came from
the better classes of society were almost
invariably young girls, who had lost their
purity through married friends of their
fathers. 1t is so easy for a man who Wis
it's intimately at the house, to grow IA
miliar with girl of 12-to kiss her, and
take her on his lap; if he is fond of child
rem, to give some amusement, and then,
as the months and years go by, he dis
covers that the child has become wo-
mana woman of IS, and that he is very
fond of her. He knows how to do all
sorts of pleasant things for her; and her
mother, foolish womanl permits her to
go TO the theater with her fathers old
friend, when she wouldn't allow her to
go out with boy of 20. I do not say that
this is always the result of such an ae-
quaintanceship but do say that blame
mothers for permitting such state Of af-
fairs to exist.
THE YELLED YOUNG WOMAN.
Last year at the Maternity there was a
girl about 10 years old, who had private
room and who never came out of IL with
out a veil over her face. Sister Irene, the
doctor and the nurse were the only people
who ever saw her face. That girls
mother believed she was visiting friends
in Italy, and during the time the girl was
there the mother visited the chapel and