The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-18

to chase down. and write
up" the human interest" stories.
These are the people who visit the
police courts, the divorce courts, the
public sales and any of the places
where the more or less pathetic sides
of life are seen in the sordid publ
city which is theirs when the law
"steps in
Has a baby been found in a gar
bage can, or on somebody's door
step, OR in park! Then is it the
duty of one of the 'sob brigade" to
hustle along, find the policeman who
found the baby or to whom it was
given by the distressed householder
or the pedestrian who first heard it
cry, and though that baby, at first
hand, may be as homely as the first
cake bride ever made, or as unat-
tractive in every way as it is posi-
bic for a baby to be-by the time
the "sob sister" Cor brother) gets
through with it, it will be dimpled
darling, cooling softly in the arms
of the police, ETC., ETC., and half the
women who will read it will scarcely
take time to powder their noses and
pin their hats on straight, before
running down to the police station
and claiming the privilege of adopt
ing that blessed cherub.
Does a deniZen of the demi mode
take an overdose of her favorite dope
and recall the days when she was
otherwheres and otherwise? and does
she take a gun or a carving knife
and go after one of her many gentle
man friends and carve or shoot
him so that the coroner is the next
man he meets?
Again, does a member of the sob
brigade" get on the job, and the cell
Of the lady with the past is smoth-
cred with flowers, and the warden of
the Jail has to put an extra trusty
on duty sorting the 1adys mail. The
newspaper story makes her "the
beautiful victim of mans lust" etc.,
ETC., and after the acquittal, the
vaudeville stage welcomes the lady
with open arms and she lives in clo-
yer until it is time for her to go on
another rampage.
Does a woman let her husband
beat her, while she keeps on living
with him, bearing him children, and
letting him squander the money
which may be hers? And then when
he has tired of her as a door mat
and cook, and he leaves her to have
recourse to the law which would
have freed her from him years ago
if she shoots him full of holes after
he has successfully prevailed on
another woman to accept the post of
door mat and cook-the sob bri-
gade" has the time of it's life writing
up the matter when the poor down.
trodden wife, maddened by years of
abuse" etc., etc., kills him and the
woman he has married.
Last week, one of the most con-
SENTATIVE papers had ? story on the
front page which would have made
Nero weep. 1t told of a little wo-
man, pale and sad, arrayed in a silk
dress and a hat with feathers in it,
who took some dress goods and a
geW-gaw or two from the counters
of departr12 ent store in New York,
and who then pathetically begged to
be taken to Jail where she would get
smiles and kind words.
Which proved conclusively that
she had been faithful and steady
reader of the out put of the "sob
brigade" and the same brigade
nearly had fits in it's effort to write
up to the occasion. We all wept
when we read or the poor dear's
starved life. Nc love, no kind words,
no anything but husband, nice
home Q. son of seventeen years and
d little daughter of ten. II ~ -
!!!! (These are tears, and if you