St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-13
An Approved Form Of Fish
ing for Men" That Meets
Success.
Young Ladies Do the Fishing,
Which in Part Accounts
for It.
Some Of the Moving Spirits Of
the st. Paul Organization
Of Y. w. C. T. u.
The Kitchen Garden Work
Where the Children Are
Gathered in.

Reform must put on petticoats to
achieve success. The star-eyed goddess
in pantaloons has a poor showing with
men. It's 1.-The woman thou gavest'
who Introduces Adam to God as well as
to the devil. A woman's way of Offering
it creates demand for the water of life
or colicky green, apples just as she
pleases to deal in one or the other.
There's been big mistake made in not
sending female Messiah into the
world. The instant one comes, down
go miserable male sinners, like a pack
of cards, into repentant heap ready for
salvation. WOman'S reform effort can
cease when the female Messiah arrives.
In the meantime it is busy keeping ma
terial here for her to work on, ,hindering
mems wickedneSS from etfacing them
entirely, as it would do did nothing Op-
pose. The female Messiah is going to
be young-nothing over thirty will an
swer. She will adopt the tactics of the
devil and lure men, rather than drive
them to heaven. She will be gotten up
somewhat after the plan of the Y. w.
c. L. U. 1t is the avOwed aim of the
Young WOman'S Christian Temperance
union to pOpulariZe temperance, to in
duce men to stop drinking because they
want to, and not because they have been
scared into it by fear of the future. The
idea OF the Y. W. G. 7. u. is to meet
sorcery with sorcery, to watch for the
seafarer and start up an opposition tune
when bold, bad siren strikes up for
the destruction of his soul. The old
plan of frightening man away from
the
CHARMS OF THE DEVIL
has not brought the world very far on
the way to redemption, so the Y. w. c.
L. US propose to try their luck at COM
petition in charms. A body of these
philosophical reformers was organized
in st. Paul, May, 1883, by Lucia E. F.
Kimball, of Chicago. 1t was composed
of ten young wOmen-Misses Car
rie Holbrook, Carrie and Flor
ence Fairchild, Bertha and En-
lily Robbins, Lizzie Virtue,
Mesdames Jessie Gregg, c. c. II. Smith
and j. Harry FitZ. The union has three
and kitchen garden. The object of its
social efforts is to win young men from
wine and bad women to water and good
women. AS body and as individuals,
the young temperance workers strive to
diSabuSe mems minds of the notion that
the diSreputable is vital element of
pleasure. They do not fish openly for
the souls of men, as does the profess
siOnal temperance lecturer, who takes
his stand on the platform with his pole.
and bait and hook all in plain sight;
but they scheme with a cunningnesS
that must delight the devil, however
much he may bemOan its application
1--WE work mans reform without his
Of hot
to-" says one of the girls. "He walks un-
consciously along the path we have
worked out for him, never thinking but
it's a matter of course for his face to
have turned in that direction. / don't
believe you could get up an experience
meeting from our converts. They drift
SO smoothly into new life that they
have none of the Self-cOnSciOuSnesS and
righteous vanity of the redeemed who
are caught on hook and jerked into
salvation with a Suddenness that makes
painful and lasting impression on
them"
Mindful that "Satan always finds
some work for idle hands to do'' inside
the fold as well as tout of it, the Y. w.
Z. L. u. gives employment
TO THE YOUNG MEN
whose Sympathies they enlist. A vol
unteer song service is held at the city
hospital every Sunday afternoon, su-
perintended by Miss Carrie Holbrook.
No one is forced or urged into the ser
vice, still workers are always plenty,
and those who once engage, seldom, if
ever, desert the ranks. All the inmates
of the hospital who are able to leave
their beds crowd into the dining hall,
where. to the music of an organ.provided
by the young women, rousing hymns
are sung and an address is made by one
of the young men. These SER
vices are purely non-sectarian and are
enjoyed by Catholic and Protestant alike.
The young people carry flowers to the
invalids, and visit the wards where
those incapable of attending service lie.
A library of 240 volumes has been fur
nished the hospital by the Y. w. c. T.
q. The amount of good they have ac-
compliShed in this one field is incalcu-
liable. 1t is among children, however,
that the young women find their special
sphere. The first year Of their organ
lied existence they sent to New York
city for teacher who came here and
instructed them in kitchen garden man
agement. The same year, with an out
lay of SIS, the first kitchen in st. Paul
was opened in Relief hall, with twenty
four children in attendance. The young
out into the highways and hedges and
there picked up the material for their
kitchen garden. Miss Gertrude Palmes
was the first teacher. Parents as well as
children were delighted with the move
ment. At the same time that the char
ity class was established, a pay class
was opened to the wealthy, under the
superintendent of Miss Carrie Drake
This increased the young women's
funds, and the next year they were en-
abled to enlarge their. facilities for in
Struction so as to accommodate fifty
poor children. The past winter, morn
ing and afternoon sessions have been
held, thus affOrding an opportunity for
100 children to receive the benefits Of
the kitchen garden.
sit seems to me-" says Miss Holbrook,
s'that there is no charity as far-reaching
as the kitchen garden. Its methods
make work attractive. The child who
could not be coaXed and could scarcely
be forced to help her mother with a
washing at home, learns the correct way
of doing it at the kitchen garden and
loves to do it, when the work is carried
on to music and accompanied by song.
No, working to music is not calculated
to make little girl stand out and in
Sist on
HAVING A BRASS BAND
to do the family washing by. 1t only
lays in her mind the ground princi-
piles that all sorts of drudgery can be
made more or less attractive. You
know, even the habit of performing it
we'll, lends sort of charm to any task,
and it is wonderful how our Kitchen
gaIGen girls correct their mothers slip