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Show THE SEA CAST UP ITS DEAD. Jessie McCann, daughter of a wealthy weal-thy New York family, a settlement worker, a most attractive girl, disappeared dis-appeared from her home a day last week, after a search or a month or more, the body was found in the sea off Coney Island. An Eastern paper asks : "Why did a beautiful young woman, with a luxurious, intelligent home, filled with all the charms that material ma-terial possessions can give, prefer to throw herself into the icy water of tbe sea? Why did a lovoly young girl, brimming with the qualities of b'ooming womanhood, with life Just opening Its charm, rosy petals to her, her heart sympathetic and reaching out into that human contact with her follow men and women, choose death in the icy sea, to that or life'' What was It that cut all those connnclions with humanity, including the pulsating pulsat-ing vitality or the lov for father, mother, brolhpr, sister, and her fellow fel-low workers in the vineyard of humanity? hu-manity? What was It that. In a breath, killed all thosp activities, that fioze up the warm stream or lire in that beautirul, intelligent, young woman0" wo-man0" Here Is the answer in pari "Jessie McCann is only one or a vast army or missing girls whose bodies are some day cast up by t ho sea. Girls are disappearing rrom homes every day Some are found still alive, htit almost all are found "cast up by the sea." Not the material ma-terial sea that carried the body ot Jessie McCann for a month, but that other sea. the social coast, rockhound and forbidding, the sea that is the seaboard or perdition. Other girls, less beautirul, perhaps, less Intelligent, Intelli-gent, than Jessie McCann, leave their homes in much the same way Many-dart Many-dart out from places they call homes that hold none of the comforts that surrounded Jessie Mef'ann, to go to toil in shop, and factory, or sweatshop sweat-shop That Is the end of them. They are never seen alive again Then, some day, when the search has grown cold, when hope has grown weak, their dead bodies are found, cast up by the sea that held them The world Is full of Jessie McCanns The sea is filled with their dead bodies. The sea that holds many of them in its icy clasp is morr deadly than that which cast up all that is left of Jessie Jes-sie McCann." Now that is the story of girls In lnrge cities; that is part of the story or thp tragedies where your next door reighbor cares nothing as to your weirare, and the world is unsympathetic. |
