The Smith County Messenger from Smith Center, Kansas • 6

GIRLS SOLD INTO Art in Woman's CHINESE BONDAGE Dress PRACTICAL POINTS IN MAKING THE MOST OK ONE'S OrrOKl UNITIES Traffic in Young Women in By EDMUND BUCKLEY, Ph. D. America Is Disclosed. (Of tht Unlvtrrity of Chicago,) a'uiyri(ibi. 1W16.

bi i. U. iiuwlra.) ning only on a background ot urny clouds or black night, no art prefer while associated with yxayH and blacks. If Mrs, RazzledaKzle retort that nature gives us also great riiauwH of white cloud, she may be begged to hang up her whlto gown with them in tho upper air, where refloclors are of some service, but not under our noses. Whitewash Is bI.mo UHefiil, but only In dark recesses whore colors would stay unseen.

Even a white statue will disturb the tonal relations of a whol room, and Is Letter shielded In an alcove or some dark corner, In short, no crude color can equal the crudity of white, and white should thcrefor be used, as crude color Is, In small quantities. As for the shirt waist, let It be cot ton and cool, but also colored. If tht color be made the name with that of the skirt, color-unity will conspire with variety of tone and texture to produce a beauty of most restful and enduring type. When the waist is white, the skirt should offset the glare with black, but this scheme Is still excessive In brilliancy, and should be moderated by combination with one or more grays. BECOME SLAVES OF MERCILESS MANDARINS sldo Booms to bo tho headquarters of the "slavo" trader.

Detectives and secret service officers have Investigated a number of externally unpretentious houses and have discovered conditions they never bolldved could cxlHt, To step within tho portals of these housci in like being transported to tho orient. Rich rugs, tapciitry, Chinese and Jap-anese bric-a-brac, virgin gold and JaAe ware studded with diamonds and precious stones, greet the eye of the visit ors Lured by Tales of Wealth. It la into theso dens of splendor that unsuspecting girls have been lured. Wild talcs of tho wealth and pleasures that will bo theirs in the orient are poured Into tho startled ears of tho girls by women bo schooled that tho unsuspecting victims really believe tho glowing promises that are made. "You will find scores of wealthy merchants and business men in Chinese cities who are far from home," say the decolvers.

"They are seeking wives from their own land." Another story Is that wealthy orientals want American companions and governesses for their children who are to bo trained for college courses in the big universities of this country. Trafflo a Surprise. That Chicago has been used as a recruiting Etation for the resorts of how they originated.1' I have been to China onco, Then I visited a married lady friend iu Hongkong. There Is a delightful colony of Americans In Hongkong. I found life there charm Most American women who ft there do.

There is much woaltu and money Is spent freely. But white women no more associate with Chinese there than they do here. I never heard of any American women bolng married to Chinese there, "As for my being connected with a band of slave traders, the eharge is absurd. On my only voyage I was unaccompanied. I have sever sent anyono there.

"I have told stories of the fine ell-mate and of the splendid times women have there, but I do not know of anyone who has been influenced to go by my yarns. "Two of my friends have ben dragged Into this scandal. One Is the wife of a Gorman banker and tho other the wife of a merchant. Both were Chicago women. They went to China as single women and married there.

Every summer they come back to Chicago and stay with me at my flat They make this trip to escape the heated term In the orient. They are wealthy women, and left only a few days ago after a month's visit with me. I have never heard of any women returning to China wjth them. "I know of a largo number of Chicago women of legal age who have Lured to Dons in Chicago on Various Pretexts and Taken to Orient by Ring of Deceiving Females Astounding Practice Bared by Secret Service Officials. In February, 1901, from Montreal, may have met the same fate.

These girls DIAMOND AS BAROMETER. were employed In the Hotel de True Indicator of Commercial Conditions Some Gem the treaty ports and the frequently! Definition of Monochromy Most Plan Costumes in at Least Two wjlors Monochromy Gives Unity and Refinement EiTgctive Arrangements of Tints, Shades and Grays Jewelry Should Harmonize with General Scheme White a Crude Color Shirt Waists Should Be Cotton and Colored. The very existence of such a specialized term as monochromy should warn tho reader that some unexpected fact lies hidden therein. The word is used to express the fact that an entire scheme of ornamentation can be executed in one color; and that the term Is needed becomes plain Vi hen one considers how generally women seek for at least two colors when planning a dress. Two colors are not wrong, of course, but neither are they necessary to the most refined effects.

Indeed, it is not too much to claim, that, in view of the riot of color that now prevails, a dovotlon of everyone to monochromy for a decade would prove invaluable as a training in moderation; for, once we have ceased to shout, we shall be able to hear the soft, low tones again. But how Is it possible to contrive tho ECheme, which Is necessary for variety's sake every dress, with only one color? Very simply, by playing upon the tones of the one color. Tones include tints, which are the color mixed visited spots of the orient has been known to the under world, whose mm 'h i 1 I Tvr -e Ltr tl'ur" -w The representative of a commercial agency said not long that he measured the degree of universal prosperity in this country by the sales of glue, which entered so largely Into business affairs. We now read that the diamond is "a true barometer of eommerclal conditions." Some acute observer told a reporter of the New York Sun that "when business men are flush, and this Is especially true of the younger- set, Chicago. Recent astounding disclosures have brought to light the fact (hat a trafllc In human lives has been fiolng on for soma time In this country and that this city has been the iccruiting point.

Young American 'lr1s have been lured from home and t'rlonds under various pretexts and fold Into living deaths in Chinese tiaronis. They are employed as "secretaries' and "traveling companions," vIth promises of big wages and the payment of all traveling expenses. Once within China they are delivered to -those who have paid in advance for "them, only to be hurried to the Interior beyond the reach of civilization, to pass their lives in hopeless despair, tho absolute slaves of merciless masters free from the restraint of all law and accountable to no one for their victims' lives. Local police and federal secret service officials who uncovered the operations of those engaged in deporting the girls were Burprlsad. at tha they buy diamonds, because thev know they can always get their money back Jf a pinch comes." He also said: "A Mm Musm mmMMmmsm In various ratios with white; shades, 1" Mill in 1' VK.1 1,1 IM 1.41 Hill 12' I 11 IK lihtS I If II 7hich are the color mixed In various ratios with black; and grays, which arc the color mixed in various ratios with gray.

Here is variety enough, while unity Is guaranteed by the oneness of color. In fact, the tonal differences are so marked that frequently Montreal. Two French women stoppad at the hotel as guests. They engaged the girls to come to Chicago and lured them to a resort The young women were rescued from tho dive and returned to their homes. Later It is reported they again disappeared.

The circumstances of their second disappearance from home are supposed to have been a second visit- from the French women, who pretended to desire to make reparation and then sent the girls to China for the dual purpose of getting a price of $500 apiece for them and sending dangerous witnesses against themselves out of the country. Chicago Girls Among Captives. The names of ten more young women that have disappearedfrom homes In Chicago and other American citlos and were shipped to Shanghai are in the possession of the inspector of the Chinese Immigration bureau. The police of this and other cities are gathering evidence against the promoters oi the slavery and their prosecution will follow. On this point government acents say they must rely on the police and state authorities, since there Is no national law against exporting women for such purposes.

American Consul James L. Rodgers, at Shanghai, has enlisted the cooperation of the English and Chinese au-ttoritles in that city, and evidence of many sale3 of American and Canadian girls to Chinese masters has been procured. The authorities have unquestionable proof of the Incercerallon in Chines 3 harems of at least a dozen of the girls who were shipped from Chicago. Hilda Olson, aged 20, is said to have committed suicide on arriving at Shanghai In order to escape the fate of being a slave to a Chinese master. Others were shipped to interior towns, where they were held by one master after another; until they were flna'ly rold to Chinese, who took them so far into the interior they could not be traced.

The horror of the situation of the girls, all of whom are young and were selected because of their beauty, can be Imagined when it Is known that the Chinese purchasers own them aa separajo names have been assigned them a.3 pink for tinted red, brown for shaded orange, olive for grayed green, vxit'iii. buu rumiucaiiund 01 uin system they unearthed. Instead of Involving a few women and (he deporting of a few girls, it Is now r.dmitted the Investigators are on tin track of half a score of traffickers, the number of girls lured from ii'ome may exceed 100 in Chicago to say nolhlns of the extent the operations of the ring in other sections of the United States and Canada. Two of the intended victims of the trade escaped from their captors after arriving In Shanghai. They told an officer of tha American navy their experiences and about the fate of their fcrmer companions.

It Is possible demands for the liberation of the young man with a good-sized diamond light lng up his his path cuts more ice la trade in nine cases out of ten than the chap who wears pearl Jewelry and puts hl3 money in the bank." When we were young diamonds were popularly supposed to be worn only by gamblers, women of large wealth, foreign rulers and potentates and lord) and ladles of high degree. There wer here and-, there scrawls on window panes or mirrors which provoked tha lines: Whene'er you see a fellow's nama Written on the glass, You know he owns a diamond, And his father owns an ass. For any man save an old one to sport a diamond was a suspicious circumstance in the eyes of solid citizens. It 13 true that the diamond has been reputed to be a charm against idla thoughts, vain dreams and frantic imaginations; and some have valued dia' mond dust as an easy and mortal pois-son to administer to Inconvenient fellow beings. Earrings have been worn In New England by men as a remedy for weak eyes.

Opals have been thought to bring bad luck. The am, thyst by its very name ha3 long beeq regarded as a preventive of intoxlca- and slate for grayed blue. Five tones can easily be distinguished, and that much variety should sullice anyone. Among these, strong cflect3 can be obtained by juxtaposition of the darkest shade and the lightest tint procurable; while any degree of re-iiuement can be secured by placing pill -f 13 ISllWSH near together tho darkest tint and the women by tlp American consul may make the affair international. Astounding Facts Disclosed.

lightest shade, or either of these with the pure color, which will thus be so reduced in intensity that it can be used more freely than would be permissible iu a scheme of contrasting colors. ree choice is allowable in the order of tones from skirt to hat, except that the lightest tone must not stay at the bottom nor the darkest at the top. One of the finest arrangements shows the Ill mM3 zsW Forty-nine American girls have been Into life slavery In Chinese harems. Most of the white slaves delivered Into the hand3 01! Chinese masters are lost to civilization and can 'hope for no escape from their bondage save by suicide. They are helpless prisoners in Chinese Interior towns subject to the whims of mandarins and wealthy Chinamen who were enabled to purchase them through connivance with' a woman" Hon yet we have seen wearers of ame thysts in all stages of drunkenness, from that of the light working jag ta two lightest tones in the ueadgear, an women have been regaled by stories of the palaces maintained by those of their kind in the celestial kingdom.

that of complete forgetfulness of tho world and It3 cares and duties and responsibilities. Nearly every precious stone has its symbolism or it3 effica- Year after year a group of women Miuennediate tone in the gown, and the darkest tone in the jacket, with a bit of pure color (full tone) in the trimming of the gown. The bit of pure color, or a bit of pure black or white in I the shape of embroidery, piping, or the Lne, io needful to insure vitality or formerly ldentiQed with Chicago's dark side have visited the city and clous qualities.) The diamond, unless the wearer were born in the purple, departed with a band of these women, who have never been heard of Despite all this, the knowledge that girls are being sold into actual slav ery and that the young and inexperi mark of vulgar ostentation. Diamonds called attention to overdressed women at hotel tables, with both hands grasping thickly buttered ears of corn. At one time they were inseparately associated with dissolute sealskin sacks; at another with violent or chemical blonds.

The diamond Is now, It seems, enced are being lured from home to supply tho demand for white slaves came as a startling surprise. More than a year ago an Inkling of the system and Us extent reached tha local police, and from time to time "the true barometer of commercial conditions;" yet we do not like to see the stones flashing from a man's shirt front or from male hands, even when 1 they are studiously manicured. Their the atrocities practiced by the inter crispness to a monochromatic scheme. Besides securing unity and' refinement, monochromy possesses two other merits; it displays differences of texture the clearest way, and it solves tue shirt-waist problem. The differences of texture seen in the dullness ot cotton or woolen cloth and the varying glows, lusters, or sparkles on silks, leather, fur, metal, enamel and gems show at their full to.ee to an eye undiairacted by differences of color; and again, textures reenforce those differences of tone which might otherwise be so small a3 to prove ineffective.

It Is obvious that participation in such a monochromatic scheme requires that metals and gems be selected for their color alone, to the ex national band of slave traders caused a ripple. Nothing wa3 done, however, to Investigate the situation and suppress the traffic until the federal au thorities acted In this instance, sending the police of Chicago, New York and San Francisco into action simul taneously. It Is believed that exposure will of itself bring the operations of the slave gone to China during the last few year3 and secured wealthy husbands," she said. "It 13 their own business and I don't see why the authorities should raise any objections to their going. They are surely better off than they would be here." "Do they marry Chinese?" she was asked.

"Oh, no; they marry white men. There are thousands of single white men in the Chinese cities who want wlve3 from their own land3." The woman in question, it is said, takes periodical trips to China and receives and entertains women visitors from the orient In the United State3, ostensibly to enjoy vacations during the heated term In the Chinese city. The visitors. It is declared, are the women who do the actual work of transporting the girls from America to China at so much apiece. They visit San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Montreal, and every large city where it i3 possible for them to pursue their nefarious vocations without too much police interference.

The woman does not deny her oriental acquaintances, but she does deny that girls are obtained by her and sent to China. Hard to Reach Offenders. Washington officials first notifled the local authorities of the nefarious practice which was going on, as there Is no federal law under which punishment could be meted out to the offenders. They can be reached, however, under an Illinois law, and if sufficient evidence can be obtained the guilty one can be sent to the- penitentiary on the charge of abduction. The difficulty whicli has prevented the officials from taking action Is that the victltna shipped out of the country never return to tell tha tale.

At Hongkong or some other Chlntse port they are met by agents of the band and sold into slavery in the Interior far beyond the palo of European and American civilization that fringes the seacoast. A number of persons have been sent to the penitentiary under the federal statutes for importing women Into the United States, but the authorities have never been able to reach persons operating In the other airection. place is at the opera or at a ceremony of state, when a gorgeous woman should outdazzle the chandelier. But on man even Dr. Holmes' modest wish: One good-sized diamond in a.

pin-Some, not so large, in rings is too much. Still, there are men who have seta of precious stones, who select from them to suit the brightness of the. day, the color of the thoughtfully considered cravat, the nature of the occasion. There are some who delight in carrying gems loose in a pocket and showing them carelessly at tne club. There is a barbaric extravagance in this that commends itself to tired dwellers in a drab town; but the Bos-tonlan, unlike the oriental in the immortal tales, does not say to the gapers "Take one." The barometer of commercial conditions does not yet Indicate such bland and prevailing weather.

traders to an end, save in the caes of the very ignorant. Punishment befitting the enormity of the crimes that have been committed Is doubtful, both because of the absence of specific laws meeting the situation and the fact that most of the offenders have placed the Pacific ocean between themselves and prosecution. "It is true this sort of thing has been going on for some time," said Chief Collins. "I have detectives working on the case now and expect to do something before long. The -information came to me from Washington first, and I then took the.

case up with the government officers here, but they could do nothing. I don't care to state what our next move will be." One Woman Suspected, One woman against whom positive evidence has been gathered as a central figure In thi3 system of kidnaping, abduction and sale into slavery Is the wife of a recently deceased bookmaker. Several others are women who formerly conducted resorts in Chicago and now make their homes In Chinese treaty ports. While 40 case3 are charged against the former, the latter are said to have recruited hundreds who have entered upon a living death' from which there is no possibility of escape save by suicide. The wife of the bookmaker, when questioned, indignantly denied the charges.

She lives in a splendid apartment and Is supposed to be wealthy. "The charges against me are preposterous," sp.saitL. "I cannot Imagine clusion of other rareness. This scheme would therefore displace gold in favor of silver for all costumes in tones cf gray, which Includes tints up to white and shades down to black. It favors the use of bronze in the various colors red, orange, yellow and green which are produced in that convenient alloy; and it assigns their rightful artistic value to such cheap gems as the garnet, while restricting the costly diamond to the same range as silver.

These changes would make great gain for art, while curing the diamond and gold craze from which plutocratic America now suffers. Everywhere that precious stones and metals are worn out of decorative scheming, they serve simply as signs of a wealth which has not yet attained to culture in art. The metals should take shape, not in filagree, but in broadish forms that can show as patches of color. The shirt-waist problem demands a garment which shall be at once cool, economical and tasteful. The coolness calls for cotton goods; the economy is supposed to can lor white color, because all others lade; and in consequence art considerations go by the board, and the white shirt waist flaunts itself everywhere.

The quarrel that white has with colors arises from its overwhelming intensity or brilliance, which nearly monopolizes vision to the corresponding loss of every neighbor, very much as the white lightning blinds the eyo to ail els. And as natur gives us light ZMCA60 WOmN whose Identity is well known to the government authorities. Tho dealer who delivered the girls tnto their slavery resides In Chicago nnrt linn a woman ennffiderafa In Courting, Old-Style. There -is not a country-bred man or woman now lMng but will tell you that life can offer nothing comparable with the innocent zest of that old style of courting that was done at singing school in the starlight and candlelight of the first half of our century. There are few hearts so withered and old but they beat quicker sometimes w-hen they hear, in old-fashioned churches, the wailing, sobbing or exulting strains of "Braastreet" or "China" or "Coronation," and the rclnd floats down on the current of these old melodies to that fresh young day of hopes and illusions of voices that were sweet, no matter how false they sang; of nights that were rosy with dreams, no matter what Fahrenheit said; of girls that blushed without cause, and of lovers who talked for hours about everything but love.

John Hay, la. Llppincott'a. chattel slaves, may sell them to others, or may keep them as long as they please, and in event of their displeasure order their heads cut off, all without Incurring the risk of trial or punishment. Prices for Girls Vary. The fixed price for Chinese girl slaves -at Shanghai is from $250 to $400.

The price paid by the Chinese men for the American girls betrayed into their hands by the two women engaged in the traffic varies from $300 to $1,000 apiece. A young woman of special beauty and accomplishment brings a higher price than a plainer anil less accomplUued one. The "levee" aection of the North. Shanghai, China, who is also known to the government secret service agents. These astounding facts were disclosed by the local immigration bureau, which received complaint of the of Louise Miller, a girl from Montreal, Canada, to the agent of a Chinese official in Shanghai.

Other evidence obtained indicated that Eva Campeau, Maggie Drouia and Victoria Stamour, three bo were induced to ccme to Chicago Amber in New York City. Large masses of amber have recently been discovered in cretaceous strata on Staten Island, now the borough of Richmond of the city of ew York. The deposits are being comim. cialiy worked. It is thought that some of tnis amber may be the product of sequoia-trees that grew on the Atlantic coast in cretaceous time.

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