Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-22

driven from their haunts by the contem-
plated raid upon houses of ill-fame, who
may be DESTROYS Of forsaking their evil ways,
is one of the vexed questions of the day,
GLOBE reporter visited yesterday tho Wo-
mems Christian Home on Mississippi street,
with the purpose of cleaning any informa-
ton that would tend to throw light upon the
question.
With note book and pencil in lieu Of the
conventional umbrella Paul Pry like he
presented himself at the portals Of the hos
pitable mansion. He was soon. ushered
into the presence of the matron to
whom he explained his Grand. He found
her very willing to give any information she
was able. When asked by the reporter if
the girls coming to the home did not make
it refuge only for time-perhaps during
some temporary difficulty from poverty or
sickness land return again to their evil
course, she said that her experience
proved that this was not the case. 1t is true
that some will return again to their haunts,
but these are only the exceptions. The first
days of their residence at the home she said,
we're the most trying: they were restless and
impatient of restraint, but they soon settle
down contented and happy. She did not
know of more than half-a-dozen who had
gone back to vice, while she could tell of
many who had been reformed, and some
who were happily married.
Reporter.-What do you think the chief
causes Of these women pursuing an evil life?
Matron.-There are, believe, three
causes, the first, unhappy marriages.
this is fruitful cause of the evil. The
next, betrayal by unprincipled men. A
child is born and the mother is driven to
desperation for means to provide for her
baby-for these young girls love their babies
very dearly. Hard work and starving wages
will make some desperate; these generally
accept the ''protection'' of some man, who,
firing of them, abandons them to their
fate.
Rep.-Then you do not think they choose
deliberately life of sin?
Matron-No, sir; not at first, but it is sur
prising how rapidly they descend the scale Of
degradation when they once make mistake.
If they are driven into those houses they are
obliged to drink, and with drink come reck-
lessness and callousness. Most of the cases
that come here bave been driven to crime
through ill assorted marriages. There is, for
I lstance, Mrs. A. You will see her presently,
sir, when you pass through the rooms. She is
q black eyed, good looking woman, and a
very superior woman in intelligence and
RI "a haI a ictia 9th
er, but her father died in the army when she
was little child. She married young. Her
husband turned out to be a gambler and
something worse. 1t was he who robbed the
Nicollet Hotel in Minneapolis. some few
years ago, and was sent to State prison. She
became desperate and continued the life her
husband forced her into. Ascend malriag &c
proved no more fortunate than the first one.
Ter second husband treating kef with every
cruelty, and at last left her destitute, and up
to the time she was induced to come to the
home she led very dissolute, reckless life,
but since she has been here,
she has been exceedingly well
behaved, and ] believe her to be
completely changed Christian woman.
She is very useful here doing
al she can for the other inmates. She is a
good dressmaker and plain sewer, and is
others.
There is the case of Mrs. B. You will not
see her, for she has left the Home and mar
ried, but her history shows what ] told YOU,
that unfortunate marriages are fruitful cause
of the social evil. She was married, and
lived with her husband in this city for four
years, and was member of Mr.. Terry 8
church, much thought of and highly re-
spected, but her dissolnte husband went
from bad to worse, forced her into vice, an d
ended his shameful career in States prison.
Mrs. johnson, one OF our lady managers
met her on the cars. She made herself
known to Mrs. johnson, and in the fullness
of remorse and despair called forth by the
sight Of one whom she knew in the days of her
purity, she told the sad tale of the fearful
life she had been leading. She acknowledged
that she had been one OF the very worst and
most reckless of her class. Her life in ST.
Louis she described as the most horrible
that could be imagined in pandemonium
Mrs. Johnson induced her to come to the
home which she did. She is now happily
married and doing WELL
Mrs. G. is another instance of the result of
ill-advised matches. She was born in New
York State, of respectable parents, well
brought up and unusually we'll educated.
She was married young, but the first moon
of their welded life had not commenced to
wane when her husband began to abuse her
and soon abandoned her. Driven frantic
with grief, she gave up to a life of widest
dissipation. Trying to kill her heart-pain
with the wine cup, she says, for five years
she did not know what it was to be sober.
She is now completely reformed and has
not the slightest desire for drink. At pres
ent she is employed by good Christian
family in household work, and they speak of
her in the highest praise
Wehad another here, continued the matron.
few months ago, who would excite inter
est IN any one. If you had seen her you
could not have believed that anything SO
beautiful and refined looking could have
been acquainted with guilt. Her home I
think. was IN Michigan. She had a com
Portable home and indulgent parents, and
d., and the tiend i'll male attire who married
her forced her into prostitution to support
him. Not content with living upon
her shame, he added brutal vio-
lence to his cruel treatment. and
she fled from him and sought refuge in the
home. She Is still beautiful Girl Of twenty
modest looking and lady-like She remained
three months at the home, and is now earn.
ing an honest living.
Perhaps you have read in the papers O
white woman shooting colored man abou
year ago. Well, sir, she came and found ,
refuge in our home. This Mrs. Z. told u
that she was married woman. She cam
from England over here Her husband ha.
left her, taking with him his four children
and gone to Australia. She took up will
the colored man, and lived with him tw
years. She was given to drink, and whel
she came to the home, she wa