Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-02-05 | Page 2 | Life of Sixteen-Year-Old Girl is Ruined by Gossips

Life of Sixteen Girl Is Ruined by Gossips I GIRLS life ruined by the tongue of A gossip a mother insanely jealous of the Interference of strange hands In Jn her home a father more than 80 years old lying near death and all surrounded by such a cloud of poverty Ignorance and squalor that it brought a shudder this was the environ environment environment environment ment from which Judge Alexander Mc McMaster McMaster McMaster Master took a young girl 16 years old and sent her to the protecting influence of the State Industrial school at Ogden during his one days juvenile court session in III Tooele Thursday It is a pity pit that we have no detention home in Salt Lake for this girl said Judge McMaster yesterday esterday It seems un tin unjust unjust just to send her to the Industrial school She is not a bad girl and told me she wished to learn more from books and to tobe tobe tobe be able to do things around a home Gos Gm Gossips Gossips sips at Tooele told me awful things of the girls reputation how she went to the camp of Greeks and drank with them and indulged in carousals Upon investigation 1 I found she had been to the camp of Greeks once or twice but her life was ruined so far as the neighbors were con concerned concerned concerned I drove five miles In a sleigh to the girls home and found a condition more pitiful than any which I have ever be before before before fore encountered The father past 80 SU years old lay in what I believe will be his last sickness It was cold and dirty and around the home homo were several other children unkempt and dirty pitifully Ig Ignorant Ignorant Ignorant These people have go cd connections and relatives have tried to get the children from the home and send th them m to school but the mother has refused She would listen to nothing I suggested either I talked the matter over with the girl girland girland girland and she concluded It would be best for her to go to the school at Ogden I think we will save her for she Is naturally natural bright and pleasant and has a willing willingness ness hess to learn Residents of Tooele showed Judge Sic Mc McMaster Ic Master a pleasant time and asked him to favor them with a lecturing trip through h the county on the work of the juvenile court which will likely be done when the weather moderates