Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-02-05


make some little quotations:
"opr effort Is to make IT, not a place oh iriprisop.
inert to these errlng girls, but rs far possiblea
Christian home. The law of kindness has been found
asuhlcent for the government of the household, and
our MatrUn, who has excellent influence over the
girls Continually reports that their conduct s FAT better
than she had any reason to expect Amer their en-
trance into the family all allusion their lives is
discouraged andwe eLdeavor to teach them that they
will be given to them readily. Above all, We impress
upon them that pure life only grow out Of pure
heart Religious instruction s given daily and is al
ways received With interest and thankfuness"
We had so long regarded this class ~ hopeless,
cepting the COmion opinion of society, that dcpavcd
woman is worse than defraved man-=neyer realizing
that the explanation of this fact Is found in the com,
cast women Society treats them as II they had passed
through portal, over which is inscribed as over
And they accept the DositoG for as class they IL
lent making no protest which reaches the of the
| genius writes Of
"one more unfortunate
Weary of breath,
| Rashly importunate,
ia Gone to her death - e. .iF
Or the Song Of the Snow is sung and the hearts of
from the solid marble the form of repentant woman
it touches the hearts of all behoders Or Corrcgio;
sorrows with the ideal creature But, alas who pitcs
the Madaens, for doubtless, they all are, times.
that cup which stides Tic still small voice and sinks
them yet deeper in sin and wretchedness, We find that
after they resort to strong drink their downward corse
is exceedingly rapid From the beer house the Gala
were arrested at ohe time, who made night hdeous
with their vile est and oah and cries for drink From
may return their dens Of ihfamy little More shame
less than they previous to the arrest. This
and lower until reeIing in the street. the haunting
fncry replaced by loathsome rags; grown too foul
an attic furnishing pithy item for The newspaper re-
porter Our hope Is that we may come to the rescue Of
the refuge sought When conscience sting, rather than
| the cup of intoxcation."
On the cover of the Report find an advcr-
tisement from which take these paragraphs
"Thc Western Female Guardian Society seek not only
particularly those dependant on their exertions
for support, that sympathy counsel, ind assistance
| datghters If similarly circumsanccd
I'VE aim to aid them in finding suitable boarding
| places, homes or employment.
" Many coming to this city to make living are en-
tirely ignorant Of the dangers to which they
posed of BY sickness or adVersy betdmt pciniless,
or suffering the crushing dreariness of homeless hearts,
are exposed to temptationvwhom we desire to aid in
These two departments of its work are entirely
separate and distinct For the fallen the Guardian
all the other classes hamed we have opened an Office
No 1912 Olive street North side he girls from the
Home on Twelfth street, not sent out into families
through this Office but are provided with homes by
other COMMITTEES directly from the IIomeJ
Families wanting teachers, matrons, saleswomen
housekcepers nurses seamstresses, cooks; washerHo
for dy ironing or
paint scssgGSpng plain sewing doing er,s1ds &C.
o are gSrds @ and bas sa TO Sa eer1
their service who be recommended, requested
al The blank prepared BY this 5 sOseE S and refer i them them
without charge
Here am reading beautiful exposition o
womans Rights-it is the writing up way
for righting the dircst wrongs of woman. 1t is
beautiful
Now open letter from Miss Craigheat
who is in charge of this glorious work.
snatch items from her letter at rand0m:
At present there are II girls and 1s babies;
the former are only 10 years old Last Tuesday beau
tiful yonng girl escaped rom house of il:repuc ant
sought refuge in our Home. Some Of the ladies wer'
there at the time. She was convused with grief anc
shame. Mrs B., lovely Christian. sang hymn il
which the love OF Christ was portrayed Our nOb
President told riie she never saw moro affecting
scene"
hre In 1869, is about aO0O women and girls. We hav
found homes for about 200 of them-have restore
wives to their husbands children to parents; have
sick to hospital" &c.
IoSr society Is composed mostly Of our old Unio
INTO action many noble soul that knew not Its powe
and might before"
Here now come before us two thoughts o
woman and her sphere and work, and one i
as horrid as the other is angelic The first
of wonian's tendency to fall and its cause
while the other is of the open heart that seek
to rescue and save. .1tlly ycB4iM
But woman is no more apt to fall than man
and this is proved in the fact that she neve
falls alone For every lost woman there ha
been q lost man, ,--'only that society, does nc
reckon him so. The woman who sins-=in tn
way that is always meant when one speaks 6
: a womans sn,--is, from the time ii is known,a
a outcast from society, a pariah, leprous. We
men of whom no such thing is known, gathe
up their skirts as they pass her, as though sll
$ were escaped from some lazar-house. The pc
e siton of the man who helped her to this dread
full state, is not materially affected by his sir
G don't know wherein the actual sin of til
# two differs, unless that the woman has bee
n trusting and loving and the man has been un
scrupulous, or treacherous and this does NJ
lessen the mans guilt, while it does seem I
n lessen the womah's. so -ti/ld
:, People say that the woman has been fot
g so to trust after all tile experience Of gener
?, tons. But women are educated TO Just sue
v trust; land, for the matter Of that men al
n not made wiser by the experience of past ger
s, erations any more than women are. Do the
r. not drlnk-though in every generation drinl
ing has led to beggsfy and hopeless ruin?
On looking at this matter, am not ele
70 that woman with sense Of independent
~ that came Of sharing mans power, would NJ
y come out into different state of things. 81
> might be less a woman-if to be a woma
" means to be pet, a plaything-but it migl
- :. tell on the brothels. About that do n
know. am staggered Nlittle by the idea til
: God has made woman as she Is, with
blessed, truthful nature, full OF heaYt-wi
8 some rare exceptions, from which, Good Lor
:, :, deliver usf-and any attempt to change
VI would be an experiment As said, am n
clear about the thing my conjecture is
he better than is any body's else, siaa
of But turn to the other thought. Here a
ST, noble women-some of whom have seen
m the cot of the wounded soldier when the h
vh summer made the gangrenous wound sicke
I'm ing even to astrong man Christian women;
'r4 If they aren't Christian there is no use in al
OF ones trying To be honest wOmen;-who Q
"a said to be implacabie to one fallen Of thu