During the great Christian Endeavor convention in Washington, D. C., last week, some women of the place, women with painted faces and strident voices, women who plainly never dwelt in the odor of sanctity but preferred the scent of musk, flaunted in Christian Endeavor badges, and did skirt dances in bar rooms along the boulevards. They were loaded to the guards with liquor, and evidently had been making use of false plumage to ply their trade among the religious brethren and pious strangers.

Illustrated Police News, July 18, 1896.