The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-02-13


tory that in a short time it is OBJ
liberated altogether; whereas it
should be SO indelibly stamped
that it could never be erased from
the recollection.
In a few weeks ct most The
wrongs perpetrated by Stanford
White upon little Evelyn Nesbit
will be altogether forgotten, ire
spective of the fate of Harry K.
Thaw. The world will continue
on its way and smirk and emile at
wrong-doing and try to conceal the
enormities and sins of its most in
dulged children and condone their
faults with every excuse that can
be adduced to minimize their deeds
and actions.
Many Stanford Whites will arise,
play their parts, evil though they
may be, then pass away into the
oblivion of forgetfulness, and still
the sun will shine and night will
follow day the same as now. And
the crowd of humanity will hurry
on toward the grave and eternity
with the same unthinking abandon
of their final destiny as now.
Lessons, though taught in letters
of living fire. are hard to learn by
those who have neither the will
nor the desire to educate themsel-
yes in the way of right. Though
one moth scorches it's wings as it
approaches the flames, thousands
will not benefit by its example,
but rush to their destruction. all
unseeing the terrible end or ter
minus at which they will arrive
There are hundreds of Whites
in cur city to day, nightly fighting
for their prey. and there are hun.
dreds of Evelyn Nesbits who will
fall unoonsoiously into their nets.
Every night in the cafes and
hotels and rathskellers and restau
rants you can see gayly. bedecked
men, many of them past middle
age, waiting, eagerly waiting. for
the bevy OF young girls that nightly
frequent these resorts, all unoon-
soious of The hangers in store for
them; the poor, silly, inexperienced
flies! little do they know of the
horrid spiders whose shining tenta-
oles are ever outspread to drag
them into the web of ruin beyond
repair.
Yet there they are, and they are
ever weaving newer and stronger
mesbes to hold their victims es
soon as caught. Oh mothers, could
you see these spiders of sin and
SORROW and shame and degradation
and depravity, spinning the meshes
to entrsp your innocent daughters,
would you not keep them from
their haunts and habitats. would
you not make any sacrifice to save
them from death-the moral death
which follows once they are en-.
snsredP
Let little Evelyn Thaw teach you
a Lesson from the witness stand,
and let it be never to allow your
daughters to the care of strangers,
except you know them we'll and
that they are under good chap
eronage.
Remember they are the most
priceless treasures God has given
to your keeping and it is ever to
guard them with jealous love and
care. Do not allow them out of
your keeping until the time arrives
when you can honorsbly part with
them by giving them into the pro-
teotion of good. loving husbands,
who will shield them and protect
them from the evils and the Gins
of wicked world.
Above all, warn your daughters
against old men-men of middle
age, men with shadowy past, for
such have only intrigues and de-
signs and passions to crafty.
May and December never mate
we'll, the genial warmth of the one
lis chilled and blasted by the frost
of the winter. And besides, age
ever ooverts youth and it would
fain turn back the cycle It time,
but as it cannot do 90 it tries to