Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-23
n is THEIR ONLY HOME.
WHERE MANY YOUNG GIRLS HAVE
LEARNED LiFE'5 MEANING

A Charming New York Institution, which
n, Not So "InstitutionaI, That uunan
Emotions Are Unpercelved and Dis-
r,garded-A Real Home.
There is no "institutionn appearance
about the wide, red brick, four story house
at 10 East Eleventh street, but the inscfp-
tioii ON the silver doorplate proclaims it
to I've the Free Home for Destitute Young
Girls" A young girl" would seem to
measn being of happiness and mirth m
object to be cherished and protected be-
cause Of her innocent youth; pretty, low
able creature, surrounded by all the com
fort and gladness that loving hearts can
provide.
But there is also another type of girl
hotd-a picture all shadows and sadness
tho young girl who Is friendless and desti-
tute, but who, happily, has not yet fallen
victim TO the tinseled temptations that
so thickly beset the paths of poor girls in
q big city. IL Is for such that the Free
Home for Destitute Young Girls" is in
tended.
"This home is for respectable girls only,
and cot for those who have fallen," said
In the comfortable parlor of the home the
other afternoon. "Where do they come
frolhW They come to us from other insti-
buttons sometimes, and through visiting
missionaries Often they are brought by
clergymen, who have found them growing
up like wild weeds in idleness and exposed
to evil influences. Sometimes, moreover,
girl will come here alone voluntarily"
Sand if a girl does come here alone and
of her own free will and ask admission"
said |, "would you take her in without in
curry as to her speetabilityY"
Certainly we would,' replied the ma
tron. "Time enough to inquire into her
character after she has been given shell
tef.5
WHERE THE GIRLS LIVE.
1t was hardly necessary for me to have
asked that question, for there is an indie
Unable something about Miss Storer that
assures one Of sympathy and charity She
is young, sweet faced woman, with u
world Of tenderness in her eyes and IN her
voice. The little silver Maltese cross she
wears at her throat shows her to be one Of
tbs. "King's Daughters"
She kindly took me through the house,
at my request and showed me the rooms
where the girls slept. Six or seven iron
betlsteads with white coverlds are placed
in each sleeping chamber of the wide, old
fashioned house To be sure, there are no
bright pictures or pretty girlish triles ar
ranged about the rooms to make them at-
tractive, but the neat little beds must be
welcome indeed TO the really destitute
girls. The large front room above the
parlor is used as u general sitting room by
the girls, where they can study or sew
every afternoon,
When / looked in the other day there
were about ten young girls busily engaged,
some with their books and others in sew
ing. They seemed delightfully."- like big
happy family, at is one of the rules Of
the institution that no girl shall leave us
without knowing how to read and Write,"
said the superintendent. "And SO por-
ton OF each day is devoted to their in.
struction in the simple branches Of educa,
tiGn. They are also taught sewing by hand
and on the machine, besides being trained
in all kinds of household duties, so as TO be
able to take the positions that are obtained
for them in Christian families, where they
will find good homes"
now THE GIRLS ARE TREATED.
Applicants are received ut the home be.
tween the ages of twelve and twenty-five,
and all who want to become inmates must
pledge themselves TO obey the rules, to re-
main mt least month, and to accept such
tituations on leaving as the superintendent
may approve.
The girls while in the home rise at 9
O'Clock in the morning, and 90 to bed at
O'Clock. Every morning they meet in he
parlor for devotional services, and after
breakfast are kept busy with domestic du-
ties. In the afternoons they study, sew or
are allowed to go out for walk; never,
however, being permitted to go upon the
streets unless accompanied by some one
VINO is connected with the home,
tDo the girls ever become dissatisfied
and wish to 20 awayP" | asked the super
intendent
Sometimes, but not very Often" she an
swered "Of course it is natural that a
young girl should beGome restless under
the restraint she must feel here, if she has
been allowed her own free will before she
came here, but for the most part we are
able to control them, and they learn TO APP
preciate the advantages of the home.
AN INTERESTING EXAMPLE.
"Quite interesting" continued Miss
Storer lis the case of one of my girls of
whom, by the way, | expect great things
one of these days. She was but fourteen
years old when she came here, Her father
was dead, and her mother dying of con
sumption in the hospital Her future babe
feir TO be that of any one of the thousands
oil waits who drift into the paths Of sin in
this city every year She had been placed
IN the Five Points House of Industry but
she shrank from the companions she met
there. She was handsome ambitious and
determined.
"WhCn she came under my care ! saw
that II was a question either of interesting
her in the development of an uncommoniy
bright mind or leaving her untutored but
vivid imagination fun sway to carry her
into ways of ideness and sin. allowed
TINT girl to spend almost all of her time in
the study room, and happily was able at
last to get a home in the family of a school
teacher, where she was looked upon less as
a servant than as a companion.
''She has developed literary tastes of no
mean order, and as | said before, expect
great things of her yet Sophie Searle in
New York Advertiser.
Second Marriage.
There is something remarkably absorb
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