Eighteen Years of Recklessness Or Personal Reminiscences of a Life Pursued in
Eighteen Years of Recklessness Or Personal Reminiscences of a Life Pursued in
W C Cotes
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He said that he had done all he could for her, but she had become so disgusting that he only pretended to keep her out of the street, and that in that he was not always successful. There is in Chicago an institution known as the Washingtonian Home, an asylum for the reformation of those who drink to excess. A branch of this Home was established for the treatment of females. To this asylum the woman was finally taken, but with all the care and surveillance that was there observed Mrs. F. Would s...ucceed in making her escape, and quite often be found in the streets in a state of stupid intoxication. In visiting this place I have seen there those whose features still bore traces of former beauty ; those possessed by nature with true womanly virtues intellectual eyes, and those who were once a husband's pride, and the little prattler's darling mother; yet in all was discernable the ruinous effects of dissipation. What a spec- tacle this was to me ; and then to add stil greater horror to the situation was to ascertain from their own lips that many of them still possessed indulgent husbands and affectionate children, whose only disgrace was, that the wife and mother who had given her offspring birth, and should protect and counsel them, was but a poor imprisoned inebriate.
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