The Irish standard., 1888-12-22
Committee on Resolutions
Social Purity.

COmUlLISo ON IteaVlAklOO5.
Social Purity.
Miss Jessie Schley, manager OF the
Young Girls Home Of this city, has
written a very able article under the
aboYe caption, to the press of st. Paul
and Minneapolis. We quote as fol-
lows:
"Among the various beautiful re-
Iigious Orders in the Catholic Church
possibly none is more deserving OF com.
mendation than that of the Sisters OF
the Good Shepherd, appropriately
styled by you Angels Of Purity" for
their grand and self sacrificing work
of reforming fallen women. They
have done great work OF redemption,
as is shown by the numbers shielded
from further vice, and the prosperity
attending their Institutions everywhere
proving forcibly and sadly how much
they are, and we are obliged to &C.
knowledge always will be, needed so
long as sin stalks brazenly through the
land. and we are dealing with human
beings. Still, if there was more pre-
ventive work done. possibly the Sisters
of the Good Shepherd would not find
their duties 80 numerous, nor should
we be forced to smile with a mixture of
pleasure and pain over their evident
prosperity. Visit their Reformitories
protestant ones also) and interview the
inmates cases out OF ten you will
find them to nave come FROM the work.
ing classes. Why 2 They wilt toll you
they were innocent young girls only
short time before, and started out with
bright cheerful hopes to earn an hon
est living; but want of work, want OF
means, want Of friends, and dangerous
aYcquaintances formed in the low beard
ing houses they were forced by poverty
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT to enter; above all,
want of 8 Home" 1.-THE love Of which
is so strongly planted in the feminine
heart, by the Creator) and some friend
to take a mothers place in sympa-
thizing with and listening to their
troubles, have led them little by little
to their fall They feel only too justly,
that they are irresponsible creatures to
drift and shift for themselves, and that
no orc takes an interest or pride in
them. Now would it not he we'll to
have new congregation OF ladies
formed to devote themselves to caring
for young working girls just at the
most important time in their lives I?
Women, good, unsel6sh and broad
minded, who will make the homes we
already have (and many more besides)
not mere boarding houses where girls
90 and come as they please, and so they
are in at proper hours livery proper
hours, too, proper By far, for the ma
jorlty of our own daughters and sisters)
and are quiet, when within take little
further interest in them. But women
trained to make the Homes, real Homes,
in every sense Of the word. They must
be made attractive like our own homes.
The girls must be permitted every limo.
cent amusement at home. so they are
glad to return to it aftrr their days
work is over and not forced to seek
their pleasure on the street after dark.
They must be permitted to have their
beaux at home and little parties too,
just like other people. for strangely
enough they are just like ''other peo-
ple," though some good men and
women fail to think so. 1t is good, very
good. to save woman that has fallen,
but is it not good, very good to prevent
her falling? And will not the latter
conduce to greater extent in aiding
Social Purity ? But these women de-
voting themselves to this grand work
must receive the support and encour-
agement Of other ladies devoting them
selves to their grand works, for they
are human also, though apparently
many think them super human from
the want Of sympathy and support they
receive in their preventive work.
can Ounce Of Prevention is Worth q
Pound Of Cure" Though an ounce
does not appear so large asa pound, it
sometimes produces greater results.
JESSIE a. SCHLEY.
Feast Of the Immaculate Concep-
ton, 1883.