Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-03
"Her Ways Are Ways of Righteous
ness and All Her Paths Are Peace"

- = Virtue certainly has its rewards in
: 4eivic righteousness-and the peace of
4 clean life is beyond price to every
body.
~ have been following the story Of
81 "a beautiful young woman, who was
= murdered in New York city a few
z days ago-who sold herself to vari-
Gus bad men, who paid her money
g. With~which toe buy clothes and gems.
She left her mothers roof to live
this absurd sort of life, and as the
story of the murder develops under
police investigation, the poor crea-
lures beautiful face was her abso-
: mte curse. 1t has always been de-
: -batable question as to the effect
= which personal pulchritude has upon
individual character in women. Van
ity leads to defeat. This poor crea-
ture gathered in the ge-gaws and the
1ewels-and she thought enough OF
. her mother to pursue her calling in
another place than where her mother
lived. If all the black sheep in the
.. family would betake themselves to
parts unknown, they should receive
a mite of commentator from the
> general public. 1t was unfortunate
that this daring young woman did
not get further away while she was
at it. The mothers name is thus
drawn into the published story, and
sshe is a good woman, the publicity
of the daughters method of living
is fully as hard on the mother as the
miserable death of her erring child
could make 1T.
There may be solitary Instances
where those demi-monde women can
hold on to the money gathered in
this dubious way, but the immense
, majority generally go the downward
pace until the show is over and the
poor clay gets quiet resting place
in the cemetery.
AS this girls story is written and
5 spread upon the pages of tens Of
thousands of newspapers there
SHOULD be some sympathy shown for
the poor mother of this handsome
prostitute. but the young woman is
getting what was surely coming to
her-time enough being given. "The
way of the transgressor is hard"
says Holy Writ, and the murdered
girl invited her fate by her own
choice of an adulterous life with
sensual males. There is said to be
little honor, if any. among them.
A woman of the deni-monde might
oe the club when she pushes her
self into forbidden paths and crosses
the path of those who found her in
their way, and she has to be re
moved, by fair means or by foul.
1t is a most pitiful sacrifice for a
young girl to make-with greed for
money, and what money will buy as
the end and aim of her daily exist
ence.
= : Perhaps this story, with all it's
Tragic herrors, may secure some other
girls attention who is obsessed with
craving for finery, and who may
be waveripg in her purposes, and al
most ready for the dreadful plunge.
If such is the case, then there is
ssome good in it's publication; but if
t only familiariZes young minds with
tife notOriety of demi-monde life and
.pFactices then it is evident such
things should be rigidly censored and
. kept only in the records of police
courts and general courts of justice.
This poor creature carried her
wares to a dreadful market. Her
beauty was her bane. She made the
plunge, and she reaped the crop
which her own hands had sown.
AS l have before written, she got
haps she was fortunate in shutting
off before she had become loathsome
to her intimates in ungodly living.
Brazen BootIegging
On last Sunday afternoon, when L
was out driving with a clever young
friend of mine, we drove through the
woods in the rear of my old farm.
We came out unexpectedly into the
open and in an old public road we
overlook a wagon with two men in
lit and a number of glass jugs col
lected in the front of the wagon.
Evidently there was something. go
ing on-in that part of our county
that could only be explained by the
presence of Illicit stills and what is
made in the stills and carried out
in those jugs or big bottles. L had
no intention of asking the why and
the wherefore. but ! reported the
fact to the United States marshal
next morning.
One gentleman remarked to me,
''.Why. Mrs. FELTON,. l expect there