The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-14
rrr MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, OCTOBER IA, 1885,

Telegraph, and thoroughly organized and
energetic effort is put forth all over the
kingdom to hinder in this fashion. as much
as possible OF the mischief that results
from the Hooking of young and ignorant
girls into cities and large towns in quest OF
work.
thousands of country girls come to Lon
don ITO better" themselves, sometimes pro-
ylded with just money enough to pay their
fare and and buy few nights lodging I'M
I'll they lind employment. Sometimes they
have not an acquaintance in the city, often
1t happens that the friend who should meet
them, through some Encouragement, does
not reach the station at the proper time.
Up comes another person who SAYS that she
or he was deputed to act for the absent one
ana leads or the stranger to she knows not
what.
The Travellers Aid Society, now only
years old, is a branch of the work of the
Young Women's Christian Association
which is far stronger in England than
America, having GOO branches and a men,
bership OF over 100000 II extends its pro-
lection so far as possible to young girls who
emlgrate as well as tn Sc whose journey
lngs are only from town to town, hanging
placards with the addresses of members in
Montreal, New York, Boston and Austria
han ports, in thu women's quarters in
steamship steerageS whenever 50 permitted.
Something in the way of a special Ameri-
can campaign is under consideration this
winter, believe, the visit of Lord Kin
naird and Miss Kinnaird being expected to
result in the organization of Travellers Aid
Societies III New York, Chicago and the
principal cities Of the country. A society
patterned on the English model was started,
Il remember correctly, III Boston year
or two ago
The parlors OF the Young Women's
Christian Association, Morley Halls, Regent
street, London. illustrate very well what the
organization is trying to do for London
glrls. The reading ard sitting rooms are so
brightly and cozily furnished that visitor
would hardly credit the fact that she was
not IN private house. There is not trace
OF the baroness or tie institutionlike char
acter which we in America seem to think it
almost lndscorous to do away with in rooms
OF the same order. Here shopgirls, clerks,
bookkeepers, etc, find books, daily papers
and the like, and here they embroider and
trim bonnets and chat with friends. There
are classes in arithmetic, bookkeeping,
shorthand and other branches in the even
ing. There are social teas. There is a saw
ings bank and holiday club for money put
by. There Is a registry for employment.
quite as practical as any feature is a res
taurant, where good meats are supplied at
cost prices, tea and fee for a penny cup
SSNN AA~SNeo AOA - lC4lNC, hOb lOI y
renee, etc. There is lodging house ad-
joining. where good rooms are let to wom-
en- IN business at low rates.
Lodging houses are maintained by the
Young Women's Christian Association
in many of the large towns of
England, there being more than
100 either directly under its charge
or recommended to young girls by
It on investigation of rates and character.
The need of protecting influences to sur
round girls in a country where living wages
are so hard to earn can hardly be overesti-
mated, and great numbers of women are
doing what in them lies to supply the want.
The secretary of a society for the employ
ment of women in a district of London
where women's wages hardly average 50 25
week told me that some weeks ago she
heard that young girl for whom she had
found situation in q match factory had
moved into house few doors from her
parents without marrying She called on
the family and found the father ill with a
wasting disease, the mother almost an in
valid too. The room was bare and the
people looked starved. They did not men-
ton their daughter till she rose to go, when
the father said very simply:
Twas Sshiliugs week as did it, ma'am,
and she brings 1t all to us. The factory
was only shilings."
good proportion of England's daughters
are not born under happy star
ELIZA PUTNAM HEATON