The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-12-19
zoe Howard Tells How the Children's
Cruelty society Neglects the Real
Sufrerers-Littlc Girls Growing mp in

Cruelty society NegIeCts the Real
Sufrerers-Little Girls Growing mp in
Crime.
NEW York, December II.
Imagine me just this side of the ferry
gate-the gate which opens on the bridge to which
a Jersey city ferry.Hoat Is chained. The season
are your humble servant and black-eyed girl about
seven years old. Customer buy q Telegram p,
miss a boat and the following follows;
dos'
Irwin go homes''
"sixty- Ave Christopher.
And get a good supper and nice, warm bed ~
~ guess not don't get no supper andi sleep on
the floor
well suppose don't buy any of your papers
"I'll stay till I do sell 'en,.'
But what If no one buys ihemsn
"Then III get licked"
''Honest?'
"Honest.''
In other words while the Society for the Proven.
tion with capital ~ Of Cruelty to Children Is ar
resting well-tressed, well-fed, we-paid children oil
the stage Of the Academy of Music, 1t permits little
seven girls to bc starved, exposed and out
ragged on the public street at hour when every
pbllanthropist In the city Is abed apd asleep Fol
years have underworld to solve this little girls prob
lem. Our streets nlled with them. Our Offices
are infested by them. They sell papers, matches,
apples. nuts, and oranges and encounter not alone the
pitess heat OF the summer and the fierce blast OF thu
winter, but the terrible temptation OF city where
wolves might be considered missionaries and wilder
| beasts might pass for Christians. This humbug SO.
ciety with the long has suite Of convenient of
fees luxuriousiy furnished and list of reputable
| Offices; It has patrons a patronage and none.
cors girl In distress, 1t never helps boy in trouble
But Is everlastingly sending men to the back door
and pay children BY the Week, and never wearie
| In making happy children miserable. This societ,
permits schools exhibitions, for which children
tortured and winks at academic shows, for whlcl
children ara crammed rs other geese are for Christ
mas But 1t never goes to Fulton ferry, where litt
girls are trained I'm the vices that our docks are notet
for where girls of tender years cOnsort with drunken
sailors and are the sportive companions of inebratet
contrabands, and where language of which the hot
test HOtentot never dreamed Is the constant aIgot
| the babies on that block.
Some OF our writers make great fuss because Dis
trict messenger boys are utilized by bad men ant
at all events not in this letter. What calling at
tenon to Just now are the little girls. Big girls car
about. But Isn't II shame that these little girl
should he stepped In vice aud saturated with vulgar
before they reach therteens We have all seen ant
heard bold, bad girls Of sixteen, but here littl
ones OF seven. eight, anu ten, who can discount tn
yeriest oafer In language and are familiar with TIN
attention of the society with the long name TO thi
| abuse. Whyy Because 1t requires patience con
@ se daily g nightly
In which these little apple peddlers are veised wo
amaze the Christian women of the land. The In
famies Practiced toward these children by an,
| boys cannot be exaggerated. DO the girls object
Not at all. But surely that will not he urged al
argument against Interference. That a child 1
stepped In sin and finds pleasure In Its commission
proof positive that she needs strong to pull lie
from the pit and protect her afterward. Please don
put me down as poser In morals. ] am simply al
observer love children and would gladly help an
one Of these little girls to plane comfortable a
| that on which my own stand. meet them ever
sometimes repulsive. don't bring them before tn
| public In ally churchly sense ! take them by tn
hand and show them TO you as fit subjects for thi
L society Ignores
duty and seeks nOtoety by interfering with childre
who would he far better of If they were left alone.