The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-07-12

| loan sharks and buyers of salaries for
| further Fleeing.
| Then come the merchants and pro-
| fessioral men. Most CT these are mar
rled and have decent homes Some
! We're fortunate when the life sentence
OF marriage was pronounced and are
| correspondence free from loneliness.
Others were uofortunate ard husband
! and wife alike are Lonely and
strangers to each other and happiness.
The sea carries hundreds of thou
sands of lonely mer: fishermen sail
ors. stokers. marines; each with his
Loneliness idden. Loneliness has
made them habitual cursers. Tied to
the sea as their only known means
of livelihood they develop irascIble
tcnpers and a feeling Of grievance
against the word III general. Their
| conversation consists principally of
discussion of their wrongs, and they
say d dozen times a minute.
These. together with the single men
in the army, are the chief victims and
mainstay of the restricted district
Here, for a price, they can purchase
female companionship of a kind; any
kind rather than none. The seaman
who hasn't set eyes on skirt for
months goes stTaishtway for Whiskey
and woman Directly he gets ashore
He has been suffering Veritable
martyrdom of loneliness, and now the
pendulum swings madly the other way
or course there are exceptions, but
they only prove the rule.
And now for the other sex.
What are the millions of girls to do
six evenings q week, 10 say nothing OF
SUNDAYS, who work i'll factory. office
ana store: Wages that just maintain
life. No money for entertainment, good
clothes and healthy amusements. 9th
Ell girls, superior mUrtals, lucky in
-, f,,1 H.
in automobiles and fine feathers to
Fashionable hotels and theatres and
Bathrooms Loneliness and despair
grlls them These are the source OF
supply for the restricted district
where they rot and drop into early
graves without CN er attaining woman
hood.
hen there is the old maid class.
These have been virtuous with no
apparent reward but loneliness. Their
number $ legion. Their brthright of
maternity has been denied them.
When | think of that sorroWful, Woe
bcgone, fOrsakcn bunch OF loneliness
feel sorry for ever having written
n word AGAINST any old kind of a dog
or cat: for love Of some sort an Old
malu must lave, and here is where
:'Ido and FIossie come IL; Of course
they 10; hang my stupidity. Here's
where | take back every word of that
confuunded article of mine on dogs
and cats: only l do wish the dad
burned things wouldn't make love in
my garden at fourteen o'clock in the
morning.
And who shall describe the loneli-
ness of the wives whose husbands
don't love them; or the widows whose
husbands aid love them?
Here is TRAGEDY written in letters
of fire AMI tre mothers whose babies
are dead. And the mothers whose
daughters ere worse than dead. And
the mothers whose boys are in Jail or
at sea or are gone God knows where.
Here is LONELINESS loneliness.
hell, hell, hell, with never a chanHe of
reprieve.
Who shall dare to say how or where
or when this whole lump Of wretch
edneSS can be leaVened and helped
back to happiness?
The means must be manifold and
secret as between heart and heart. The
means must spring from sympathy
and fellow feeling. No need to seek
far Sorrow and loneliness are all
around us And the time to begin rem
edying It is NOW, NOW, NOW.
The larger problems arising out of
this article are as follows:
l. Bearing in mind the classes of
mon concerned, what substitutes can
crea nization offer them for the sa
looms, the pool rooms, the gambling
helis and the restricted district? These
are at present the Fairgrounds and
refuge from, loneliness of millions of
men; millions. mind you; and men
are but children grown larger and not