The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-17

Of him. That aunoys him. Then. she
wants 70 control him, and that makes him
l9Hs 70 get away from her. Then she
eonifadicts him. And that causes him 10
hy from her. 10 Is true our empire IS not
q very long one. 1t is true, we cater TO
men, and they give us Of the money they
as, ana they are never loyal 20 as. NOW.
as / am / begin to wonder whether IT.
WOULDN'T have been better policy 20 have
r91H spo4 woman ana yet know 10
morrow, II / had my beauty and my youth
DICK, ! should return TO the old life
once heard a clever man say that women,
IKE butterflies, have no souls. / wonder if
lt Is true. / almost believe 10 is. ] GER
fanny hope Dc Is. for L seem TO know the
sort or punishment that viii Doe given
70 me ~ am TO endure "a hereafter. The
mar skirt, the lack of all but coarse food,
having 10 work and work until my body
acnes and aches. That would be my pur-
!. even /. who am seldom startled, looked
az thls woman with amaZement She had
TAXED on as If she were addressing some
luiHS or somebody standing beside me,
ana l mad no answer for her / knew she
mad SAID a great deal that was true but
Jhdi u was true made 10 none the less
dreadful TO hear ! knew that she was to-
Jay representative of the woman in the
Bible; but, unlike thar one of Olden days.
she seemed hard of heart and strong Of
lultiiee she realized her kind, and she
did not forgive them. She rose, and with
a grace that seemed odd. as 1 looked at
her rags, she bowed good-by. refusing TO
the money that was he'd out TO her, and
gong her own way For she had always
her?
The morning paper told. She was de-
scflped as having been picked up by a pO-
Hceman, No. 900, from the river, and he
herself I'm.
The newspapers had column about it.
Ihey told OF her short day of glory; they
told OF the men who were her lovers, and
they ended w,th a very poetical quotation.
: eml-renglous and altogether untrue. And
]? l didn't think Of anything poetical
concerning her life-story / thought only
this: III l had a girl child who lOnged for
luNuLy, VINO longed for wonderful jewels,
who lOnged to have nothing to do i would
show her something of life / would take
her far over on the East Side and let her
see what the women, she thought beauti-
Iul, came TO be; now dirty, and ragged,
the hospital and a charity funeral We're as
certainly the end of each story as that
beauty and discomfort We're beginning.
/ would take her to the morgue and let
her look on some dead woman whose story
was told IN her face. and then, # that girl
enid was still discontinued, ] would push
ler OUT INTO the world which she lOnged
Tor ana let her md out exactly what it
meant. To me, there seems nothing so
horrible as the life Of the wicked Madga-
lene, taustina, or Jenny. call her whatever
you VIII, according to her century ana her
country for il is a life absolutely without
love. A life full of greed, fun of envy.
p7Hlblgf as TINS woman SAID. a lie that
saushes some women, but only for while.
Il makes me sick at heart when think
that TINS woman's words were true-that
1t is from Gods own land, the country
that the recruits to the army of vice are
drawn. There is no CONSUMPTION needed.
they come only too gladly. Who Is going
TO straighten all this2 You and / may pos
slbly feed them when they are sick, but
those are the days when, unconsciously
they say: TOO late"
Who Is going to stop all this I'm the very
beginning2 Vice regns IN a republic as
well as In a monarchy The socialists may
down kings, but they cannot kill wicked
ness, especially this Wickedness that comes
from women, and which means the death
OF faith and hope in the hearts of so many
men: / SAID few moments ago what
would do If / had girl child who was
discontinued. My friend. / said that Now
| know did not tell the truth. l would
protect her from every vice as long as 1
could, and | would teach her what real
love meant when 1 found that the love for
the good things of life, so-called. was
drawing her away from me. Who is to
solve the questionable question of Magda-
lene, of Faustine, Of Jenny2 Perhaps we
will have to wait until the second coming
of Christ. But during that time this
ought to be said-"God help every woman
who nurses in heart the demon of discon-
tent'-said by you and your neighbor,
and Bab