The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1896-01-03
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result. Nobody listened to her; every
body watched me.
l tasted my soup, but couldn't cat 1t.
! was not 81 hungry as l became later:
The soup tasted like paste with salt and
pepper III IL aud some sliced carrots.
Having struggled with 1t in vain, l drew
h nc n91 he oa fo o me In II WAS n; hpminy;
look s"discou riYlpg, and iried To eat some
or H.. But the Tffst morsel of meat l put
10 my nioni iStssqfiy nansea,ed me: spit
girls, that meat is vijcly tanted.''
THE TAINTED MEAT.
They said: Yes, IL is; IL almost always
Is. But when You get good and hungry
You can eat il. You know you won't get
anything but dry bread and tea tonight.
aud tothorrow You'll get about the samr.
only i'm be coffee, So by the time yoa get
meat again you'll cat it,
i may as well relate right here that my
experience With the food was just as pre-
dicted. had 10 meat served me While
was there that was not tainted Now, if
the authorities and people who know all
about such matters, have decided tha 1 bread
anu coffee In the morning, soup, rice.
meat and cornbread at noon, bread and tea
at night form proper fare for people who
are being punished, have nothing To say.
having never studied the chemistry of food
don't believe in hysterical sentiment.
and am not going to demand butter and
essnry is a diet that viii be nourIshlng and
sustaining. But let 1t Ge considered that
these women are confined there for SOME
petty offense, not for some great crime, and
they are eApiatinS The trouble they have
made by working all day for the govern
inemt III some capacity or another;
THIS diet, If IL is all that IL should be,
without ever Il bit OF dried fruit such as
Is usually regarded as absolutely nee q
cssary even in hard fare.this Diet in the
name of Justice. should be who,esome-
One does not give ones dog decaying
meat. lf these women were murderesses
they should not he thus fed. 1t is my I'M
three days that / was at the wor khouse
l had only tainted. rankly tainted, meat
served TO me, and not bit OF frllt
In any form. The inmates said they never
had fruit, and that EPSON salts were dis
pensed when this diet resulted in indiges-
ton.
After dinner the women lighted their
pipes-those who smCEed-aDd strolled
AROUND through the corr dors and hung on
the window stills ard talked. Wherever
went | was followed by two or three who
were waiting to get some details CT my
story. The woman with the clutches had
lost one leg, and she hobbied to the win
dow Ia throw Ei.s 10 her husbapd when
he went by, in striped clothes, with the
gang.
Size explained that she ard her husband
had been ON a prCtractcd drunk. and We're
asleep in bed when tie Officers came 10
haul them out and arrest them. They would
not give her time to put Il stocking on her
one foot or to put anything around her.
She was nearly frozen al tue station mouse,
and came out to the wcrkhouse in pitt
able condition. But she was too full of
fight on every possible occasion to allow
Of muCn p.tylng.
The faces OF two of the women were so
good as to amaze me. and ] asked them
both what they We're confined for. Drunk
said one, and 1t Was followed by laugh
crippled Emma "wc'll drink anything you
give US 'f
"Bu, you have never been here hefore?"
] asked one Of the two who attracted me.
Herr exclaimed Emma. pointing at
the woman mentioned Will her pipe. why
Gagnin lives lerS. She can't remember the
butte; :, sG: :. is: s,e's in this time for six
DRISKiIs THE CAUSE.
madam" said Mrs. Gagnin to me, trying
to look dig9ftSi ard Indifferent to the
remarsS, Its tle drink that gets the
better OF me- Itake ii 10 drown trouble.
Il was my husband who got me here in
the first placS, the dirty brute that he was,
and IT'S comm here I've been ever since.
I'm not fast wstnan, like some that's here;
no, indeed; may tke Blessed Virgin ever keep
me from that. I'm good Catholic, but
the minute ] git out If / take drop
Il the creethur Tam Babbed again. You'll
be back lcre aesis, too, now they've be-
gun on you. No. andeed don't use no bad
langwudge, dop't lie, l don't smoke,
L
"Gagnn you're an angel. It's inc that's
the devil,'' yelled Emma. 81 smoke, 1
drink, l chevy snuff aud tobacco, swear.
| L" hut Mrs. Gagnin got up with the air
| OF Il tragedy queen and departed 10 her
| cell; the others laughed, and looked seri-
| O,iSlv INTO the sparkling eyes OF crippled
! Emma. ,.-- .,
| said. in reference to Mrs. Gaguin.
For the Lords sake, don't say that:
| she's listeninsr' yelled the iTrepressiDlc
| Emma. Smell he struttin around here to
| beat h - now. There won't be any livin'
| with her"
| woman. who later became my cell mate.
! and who was the only woman with cduca-
ton in the place.
| Il was drunk, too" she assented, with
| Cheerfuness. They had me down here
| me now to Tie eEd OF my life. / wasn't
| really drunk 1t was Christmas eve, and
| / had been in the market. Some friends
| OF mirc lad n bottle and we look frink
| together. After that l passed an oifCer,
| who promptly took me in. This Is the
| fourth Tine / We been DOWN III EellhS
| so / expect IT .
! .s'rhev want women in the sewing room. y
| called out a woman named KATE. WHO was
| a little Irish termigant. They've got
| pIentv CT to,ored gals to wash and scrub.
hui ii Amt so easy 10 get the sewing done
When they get short on help they just
| telephone 10 the city 10 take IN ieW OF
| the regulars and the next morning down
| will come a lead of them
| Our noon hour was over and we went
| below to tue sewing room l wasn't given
| ANYTHING 10 do, as they were closing up the
/ weeks work, and 50 got garment and
| p,,iI.,t out hastings and talked to those
| who insisted on talking to me.