Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-10-02
SAVING H GIRLS

IN. South 29H"t' Messenger (which, by H.. way. is now
"'If tn" mos :'ajoA'" paper in the state has the following
patI"t1" story OF cA~ OF :r laur. girls u d side j. NV at the state
l"F :'rt tF5 ls':r CONN pn fate OF 'housm.ds s:.GarIy situated
\ >Hp Of " ri, aho" eighteen. drn->H3 w. n 'estIy j. ,
hIu" Smt and carrying a suit case. stepped into tr tent and said
'Tl"aNc Madame. don think me fresh" ishe saij Trash = and
wash You rooId have heard her lovely, soft, ORIENTAL voice see
inr ing, black. vrlrty eyes. and appreciate the beauty and fresh
hess of her please don t think me fresh, do rt mean if t}at
way at all, but will YOU tell me what equal suffrage meanso'
We looked our establishment at such a question in this day. and
S' 'N'lhU Las week we Wer" m Chicago and heard every
where people talking about woman suffrage and did not know
what they meant. 50 when saw this place and tt words, stop-
pea to ask. "" told her briefly what we were doing and what
the cause meant Her big eyes filled with tears and She said
In my country-l come from Turkey-woaen a. SO oppressed
ami down-troddcn. so abused in every way that there is 10
future tor them. and now my country is so torn with war I from
pie 'o 'hlnk what 1t means to the women. Polygamy and i'm
"oFaII1E make slaves of women and they cannot help themselves.
thought perhaps You eauld tell ME some way 10 help them"
We asked her name and what she was doing She gave us
her stage name, am certain her own would hay been more at
tractVe' and said She was dancing with one Of the shows. Her
nome Is IN Tampa. Florida. She with her mother had come to
this country to escape the fate which they must meet in Turkey
n daughter was threatened with tuberculosis and was ordered
to seek employment which would be in the open air. As she "
pressed ii. Il did not know Your language ami .,uld NOT no =
clerk. anyway. could not live on the wages they would pay me-
y girl cannot he good and live Oh 81 and $ pr week The DconIo
am with pay me 50 a week. bat do not ikc ii and want to
quit"
Some one interrupted then and She thanked Ms preuiIy and
passed on
Later in the day. one Of the women in charge Of the tent
walked down the street 10 see il she could lind where the girl was
dancing. She found her. Dressed in her nati.v costume, she
was oelng exhibited before 4 tent with q number d: other dancers,
all OF them the TYP with which we are $ sadly familiar at street
fairs and carnlyal> Her 1.-THE loneliness was ii startling con-
traSt to her companions And making the announcement for the
show, was the most NlainoUs specimen Of BARKER ii was ever
cur misfortune 10 have encountered. The talk 1e gave to that
crowd u MEL ana boys was Dnspeakably Va in lis suggestive
Ness He spied the l1le group Of women at the side and finished
his harrAngne'ln this VASE: OF course VI don't cater to the
ladies. II they come III II Is al their own risk. because l tell You
frankly boys this Is no Sunday school show Later in the
afternoon 1he same women saw 10 II that the man was removed
and the show properly looked after by the authorities.
But What 5 to become OF that girl who wants to be good.
There is only one Inevitable end for her 50 long as such men and
such shows are tolerated, and SO long as a girl cannot earn a lv-
1hg al a dec@n1 employment. Dancing her native dances is the
only thing sGe @o1id do TO support herself out Of doors. In itself
all right but when used by al evil minded beast to arouse the
aasest and Eost evil thoughts and passions among men. it is a
#rong against which eTery clean minded man and woman must
protest When people refuse 10 tolerate such things. they will
cease to exist as 3 menace 10 the Faush Of this nation. Women
can help-even without the vote they can help to suppress such
things.