New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-02

which wealthy, kindly people can reach and
cure some part of the diseased mass OF vice
and want below them. A brief notice OF the
aim and present condition of these houses VIII
probably serve them and our readers to whom
they apply more effectively than any senti-
mental appeal.
The first is the Isaac r. Hopper Home.
| No. 10 Sccond-ave. founded by that most just
and friendly of Friends in 1S45, for
the succor of women discharged from
| prison. In this Home these women are re-
ceived, cared for, and work found for them in
| families in the country, while the unskilled
are taught in the sewing department, laundry,
and school how to earn their bread honestly
before they are sent out again in the world.
In this Home 1929 women have been shell
tered more than half sent out to service, the
rest employed in other ways During the last
year $50 were received and cared for. Be-
sides this work it is the duty of some of the
I good women having the institution in charge
to visit the wOmen's departments of the city
and State prisons, to obtain some personal in
fuence over the wrctched inmates before their
| discharge. The whole aim of this charity, In
fact is to establish direct personal relations
between fallen women and those of their sex
who are ready to help them. 1t needs no COM
mendation from us. If Christ held out His
hands to the Magdalene, it is the absolute
duty Of His servants to go 10 the aid of women
who, like her, have fallen by the way, and
there is no time in the whole downward path
of criminal when help is so necessary or so
likely to be effective as when the prison doors
close behind her. and she stands without work,
money, or friends, ready to begin life anew,
but with the damning mark of the jail upon
her.
The other institution is the NewYOrB Infant
ASYLUM, which has house in Sixty-iirst-St.
and another in Flushing. Unfortunate women
are taken into these Homes and cared for dur
ing their confinement; abandoned and deserted
children are sheltered and educated until of an
age to support themselves, when they are
bound ont as clerks apprentices, or servants,
the Asylum, however, maintaining its moth
ery care over them to protect them from any
danger of ill-usage. During the last year ITO
children and 50 women have been maintained.
The medical department Of this Home Is under
the care of DIR. j. Lewis Smith. Female ply
sicians, we observe, are employed in both this
institution and the Isaac Hopper Home, which
is as it should be. The reports OF both these
charities tell touching story of individual
cases in which not only the bodies but the
souls Of forsaken women have been given new
life, through the earnest helping hands and
Christian words which they found here.
such of our readers as have money to give
can bc5tow it no more wisely than IN one OF
these homes. There are other gifts which are
quite us acceptabe-supplies Of all kinds,
clothing, especially for the children, books,
toys-anything which can make health surer
or life brighter for these poor Outcasts whose
share of the worlds blessings has been So
scanty. We have, in addition to these,
report of the Diet Kitchen, whose good work
we noticed short time ago. The report is
from the hand Of Mrs w. c. Whitney, which
is enough to vOuch for its accuracy and the
high aim of the undertaking which she in
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