Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-01-06
DEPRAVED GLASGOW
AWFUL SIGHTS IN STREETS OF OLD
SCOTTISH CITY.
More Drunken Women There Than
In Any Place of It's Size In the
Worid-How Good Citizens Try to
Redeem Them,


~ Worid-HOw Good Citizens Try I
1g Redeem Them.
There is no city in the world tbs
~ has so many drunken women in prc
:. portion to its size as Glasgow" says
= correspondent of the st. Louis Globe
t. Democrat. "As breeding place 70
N female topers neither London, Pari
nor New York can compare with tn
!. Scotch town, which prides itself OF
- the progress 1t has made In almos
Il every kind Of municipal reform
1T Is no exaggeration to say that al
n American walking in the evening
b through Glasgow's poorer quarter
r through Salt Market street, Bridge
> Gate or High street-soon begins to
g ask himself II there can be any sober
: women In that part of the city. Here
in the course of an hour one NAV see
nearly thousand women pass in vari-
GUS stages of intOxicatiOn, nearly all Of
them looking either for a saloon or a
pawnshop. which, by the way, are
usually close together.
When once woman begins to
drink here she Is done for is a quo
tation In this Scotch city, and one be.
heves 1t true after an evening i'm the
Sums. Old gray headed women with
weak. diSSipated faces and torn rags
for scanty covering reel through the
streets begging cOppers with which to !
Duy more drink. Young men, them
selves the worse for liquor, exclaim:
Give the barefooted old grannies a
penny. We hope well never come to
that The middle aged topers are the
coarsest OF all. their hair matted IN
tawny snarls, dresses half fastened
and their speech too foul for repeti-
ton. Some Of the worst characters
appear in striped black and white fan
mel petticoats, and these Women are
called the 'petticoaters'
"One 'petticOater. was on an unusual
~ nigh spree on the Saturday night the
writer went through the Bridget as ,
Bridge Gate street is called. Mad with ,
drink, this fighting woman rushed ,
nome to her attic, put out her children ,
ana with Ratchet smashed the furni.
ture and even tore to pieces the chill
1ren's clothes. The oldest bow. eleven.
went FOR the police, but in the mean n
line the Infatuated mother had nailed !,
ip the door and defied them TO enter. ;,
mus In one nights intoxication the !,
Detticoater' had broken up her home.
estroyed the household treasures and
asst her children into the street.
The young women for the most part ]
'ear coarse shawls, and with great /
they wind them first about H
lelr babies and then about them /
Ives. Every young woman seems 70 |
a mother, but they pay scant atten. !
On to the little ones, about the ONLY |
election baby gets being the SUD-
rt from the shawl. have seen girls
eleven and thirteen so intoxicated 1t
at they could not walk straight wi
zen the little girls of six and seven all
outside the saloons waiting ou
peep In or hoping that mother" die
II let them have "drap." The little up
MS are barefoOted and half naked. abe
e droOp in the corner of the mouths pre-
many or these little people indicates lift
lhiy the depression caused by cruel Is
anu neglect together with Ill health pos
hunger. Little Stun angels born per
h an appetite for drink, they have One
u time ahead of them if they grow pus
er I
he cause Of the degradation is the Ing
'tched home life. laziness and in. grol
perance. Thirty thousand families
Glasgow live in one room flats We
leuheS indeed six or seven families IL
III one long room, with only a pert
X mark or piece of rope dividing of a
rented space. Euddled together in thre
masses men, women and children weeC
~ the gfOssest immortality can re- Ing
oheller houses are being builf weed
NY however. where men may find weed
Ihiortable nights lodging for pit and
T. te- W
bout these shelters on Saturday expo,
Is men are gathered by the score. able
women with children stand neor and ,
ee"s '"cir husbands for cOppers. pleas
are few shelters for women raise
"nele ior . cents In American of sp'
y woman may stay overnight the II
AVE place to cook her own tea are N
breakfast. But these shelters do MIST
axe the place of home. for no
sion Is made for the children A In,
one may sleep with the mother The
Is five years old. but the beds are Illinoi
W. IKE the hunks Of q steamer, dence
there are half q dozen farm
sters. The Shelters however. great
II improvement over the tene. held II
and in them people are Obliged nois h
decently. wealth,
"se hoihe mas Deen established ance a
arried men with children who cOnsin
drunken wives The wee kid tremel,
Is the Scotch express it. are TAX. no Ion,
OF Mt an absurdly small sum who "
Z ia'her Is with them at night. knows
ic'ure ol SIN ana shame would best pl
rue 10 lie dld 1t not contain Chicago
bright patches here and there
these shelters and institutions. lite,
ire peasant parks I'm the very Salt b
I the slums, a fine peoples pal by CUES
AIT sailery ana opportunity Wash
-, '|~"" VIM VIII Try at all TO Don't
,hat &c no",e look IN young jures tn
that Saturday night who ia r.
rty-two and has been in prison ho.
four times. The good people d., ,
yow give the seventy times op- iu'
Y TO ,ts drunkon wcmon" ' w They al
better.
'iety Of Filipino Soldiers. Use pi
annual report to the secretary per.