WHEN WOMAN SINS.

NZ Truth, Issue 136, 25 January 1908, Page 4

WHEN WOMAN SINS.

A — — ♦ — THE BATTLE FOR BREAD AND BEER. Wihen a woman's hair is grey and her face betrays symptoms of a dissolute life there isn't much worth living for bar beer, and to obtain that without work it is necessary to be immoral, and when a' female's dial resembles a withered pumpkin struck by lightning, it becbrnes increasingly hard to induce men to sin with her, so that, the autumn of life becomes a (miserable struggle for existence, illujnanatod at rare intervals by an unexpected .apd providential razzlc. Jessie McEwan has spent a lot of timic m gaol owing „to, to p. predilection for swipe aud a necessitous indulgence m immorality, and when she was found recently wandering m Newtown Park an hour before midnight, the police gave her a bed. Jessie's companion m sin was a young woman named Charlotte Higham, who has already put m THREE MONTHS AT THE WASHTUB m Booth's sweating home and had since revelled for three whole weeks m Avell-earned liberty. McEwan was sent to gaol for three months with hard labor, by Magistrate Riddell, but as there was a chance of reclamation for Lottie, she was sentenced to a more awful expiation of twelve weeks m Booth's slave compound. This woman will graft her soul case out m the name of God, come out penniless, then lend her body to the first brute who offers her thc price iof a crust. If Lottie were paid wages for Avork m the Sweatalvation shanty she would continue the practice when she came out, but the temptation to have a gin after the cold, hard, knee-drilling existence on poor fare is too much for human na- , ture.