Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-07-16
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within the past week the newspapers
have been crowded with the details OF
two revolving murders. one case where
Cinnamon killed. an American girl, ana
packed her remains. IN trunk. and the
other OF a brilliant young society woman,
who had been given all the chances that
70 with luxury and position Her BODY
was badly mutilated and thrown In
nearby crek by her murderer
Both women were indiscreet. IL not i'm
moral in their habits. Nobody has re-
spect for their characters. however inuch
they may sympathize with innocent KIN
dred. They were perhaps lured 70 oeath
bv Jealous paramOurs. but their fate
should be an everlasting warning 10 ven
turesome. fast women
When people play with fire they may
expect 70 be scorched, II not consumed oy
flames. The young woman VINO posed as
a missionary 20 Chinese men and women
In New York city was not only Ialss
woman 10 her religious pretensions, but
shame-maker for her own family She
was flirting with two Celestials In a most
revolving way, and while one may SIN
cerely pity those who were tied 10 ner
life by blood and affection, IL is plainly
evident she courted a dreadful fate when
she hypocritically- lowered herself 70 the
Jealousy Of those dreadful foreigners.
II / mistake not, there viii De more
circumspection used IN those Cninese ms ms,
siOns. and considerably less intimacy with
IusrfuI Chinaman- Elsie Sigefs death Is a
lesson 10 all
The other woman was cursed with her
rhysseal beauty. She was adopted oy ricn
peoole because she had facial attractive
ness Her own mother parted with the
pretty child in an apparently heartless
way. and she was made pet and play
thing BY those who wanted sucn adOrh-
ments IN their home
The young woman was also apparently
without principle. so far as virtue goes IN
the makeup Of character. Married TO a
man in California who was amply able
20 give her what her nature craved' she
allowed herself 10 become unduly NIL
mate with another married man. and thus
invited her own awful fate
No amount Of education or fine oppor-
tunity viii Kill out the germ Of lust IN
nr,ch r,eouie II eats out every moral
principle in their natures and brings them
sooner or later TO untimely destruction.
IL induces the belief that the woman
Inherited sufficient laxity Of morals from
her low birth TO overcome all the lux
uriotis fondness Of her foster parents, or
the grand opportunities that her fond
guardian heaped upon her in education
and position
And she was but little over twenty
years when she met her awful fate IN an
out-of-the-way place (where she had no
business TO bel, and has inflicted shame
and modification on all who loved OF
had befriended her, and demonstrated IN
A living picture what animal lust can do
TO debase an immortal being, that might
have enjoyed for a long life everything
that was beautiful and ennObling.
II seems TO be advice thrown away on
rash girls and young women who venture
into dangerous places and with question:
able companions and who risk life ana
character IN such ways.
Those young fast women met a hard
fate. but they brought the ruin down
upon their own heads. and we may con-
ndentIy expect both murder and suicide
when lust and jealousy are the prime
agents in disreputable conduct.