Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-04-27
WATERFOWL GIRLS
CAME TO GRIEF
ARRESTED In MILWAUKEE ON
CHARGE OF VAGRANCY.
Left Home Last Saturday to Go to
HubbletOn to Attend a Dance
Saw Visions of City Life and
Submitted TO IllusiOndry Beck
oning-Were Expected Home.

That the pernicious habit of street
gadding and attending dances of the
mixed classes is having it's demoraliz-
ingleffects upon the girls of Water
town, was again amply illustrated
in the experience of couple of young
girls Of this city, who came to grief
in Milwaukee after extorting pains of
sorrow and sleepless nights from their
poor widowed mothers, who must ne
cessarially have suffered all the tor
lures capable of being bourne by suf-
fering humanity. 1t was an exper-
fence that should have it's lessons in
moral effects to the young woman
hood of the city who may be on the
road to ruin by taking the first steps
that lead to decentralization and later
to utter despair and grief to the way
ward and the loving parents, who, c.
spite the fact of the lapse of time,
still watch the steps of their offspring
with the same pulsation of love that
characterized their watchfulness in
the days of infancy, thus denoting
that mothers love is not bedimmed
in any of the stages Of life. Though
growing to womanhood and manhood,
the mothers or parental love still
fingers with the same devotion OF the
days of infancy, when the steps of the
little ones were guarded with watch
full eye
The Leader does not pose as great
morallst given to sermonizlng, but
there are conditions SO glaring that it
feels they should be brought to the
attention of the public from time to
time in a spirit of charity-and the
incident referred to is one of them.
1t is prompted by an experience of
the two young ladies referred to, who
underwent an experience that is any
thing but encouraging in the strife
for virtue and kindness among human
ity.
1t appears that the young ladies
left their homes in this city last Sat
urday evening, telling their mothers
they were going to Hubbleton to at
tend dance. They participated in
the gaieties of the evening, but failed
to return to their homes after the
dance, not intimtating to their moth
ers of any intent other than to return
to their home circle to cheer and COM
fort their mothers-the dearest friends
on earth.
During the gaieties of the evening,
the young ladies saw visions of city life
and gave in to the snare of deception
that leads so many down through the
pathway of iniquity and into the
meshes of despair and down the to
boggan slide of ruin-so easy of access
and so hard to ascend again when once
on the downward course.
The young ladies submitted to the
illusionary reckoning Of the devil and
ignored all feelings of love for those
at home so dear to them and went to
Milwaukee. What transpired from
the time of their arrival till the pres
ent time, the Leader cannot say, but
it can venture the assertion that they
were thrown in contact with many OF
temptations so invigiling to the young
in this day and age. This is perhaps
better proven in the fact that they
were placed under arrest by an officer
on the charge of vagrancy. When ar
raigned before the police court magis-
trate to plead guilty or "not
guilty. to the charge, the judge
gained from them the intelligence
that they were Watertown girls ane
succeeded in getting from them the
story of their experience and waywaro
course, which appealed to the dispen,
ser of justice. The Milwaukee chief
of police was instructed to communi.
cate with Chief of Police Block Of
this city, and ascertain what course
should be pursued. The chief broke
the news to the mothers, they urging
the return of their daughters to hea
the wound to their breaking hearts
caused by the rude and unthoughtfu
course pursued by their offsprings. II
was expected that the young ladies
would return last evening. Out OF
respect for the innocent ones at home
the Leader will mention no names
and trusts there will never be repe-
tition of the occurrence.