Blue-grass blade., 1894-11-11

| Lexington, KY, Oct. 2I.-CharleS G.
Moore. the infidel editor of the Blue
Grass Blade, has undertaken the refor.
nation of fallen women, and in company
with two young newspaper men as
guides, commenced the task.
Lexington has about 10000 inhabi-
tants, but more than its share of inn
proper houses. Several blocks of val
liable property in the East End are al:
most wholly given up to these houses,
and the good women of the city have
been striving for many years to get
some convert from the tenderloin pre-
cincts of Lexington.
Unlike Parkhurst or any other re-
formers of note in the country, Moore
uses no prayers or oratory, but he met
great encouragement today by his plain,
fatherly manner and advice. Some of
the houses visited were fine and costly
buildings, and their furnishings were
elegant. Here he was treated in a re-
spectful manner and soon had the at
tention of the inmates. He did not adj
vocate house of reform in the sense it
has been used, devoting the time mostly
to inquiry of how the house of reform
worked and as to what plan would be
the best suited to these fallen women.
He found that many of them had
been in houses of reform and had re-
turned to their wayward lives. They
said that there were no prospects for a
future, nothing but the same work from
one day to another, and that the best
they could do after living in house of
reform for several years, would be to
serve in family as domestic, there be-
ing absolutely no hope of future.
They said they cared little for the
prayers of the women who frequently
came to see them, for theidark reality of
the cold, cruel world was before them
and they preferred shame to being cuffed
about
Moore has an idea that the reforma-
tion of fallen women can be made sue
cess by offering inducements for flu
ture. He found nearly all of these he
visited tired of their idle misery, but
unwilling to do drudgery. So he be-
lieves that house of reform should be
established on a plan whereby those
willing to work could make and save
enough money so at the end of four or
five years they would be able to buy a
home of their own, be able to dress as
we'll as other people and not be looked
upon with ScOrn.
Two women here, tired of the life of
shame, resolved to get away from that
portion of the city in which it abounds
and bought property in more favorable
locality. But no sooner did this become
known than hue cry was raised by the
very people arguing for reform and they
could not live in their homes. A young
woman. very pretty and attractive, with
a reasonable amount of education, who
although she had not openly defied pub
lie morals, resolved few days ago to
turn back in her downward course, and,
having no revenue to gain employment,
applied to school for instruction in
branch of study by which she could earn
e -lving. and MasL1S,d aCs,itta1cs
Failing, she became dlsheartered anc
boldly entered house of bad repute.
Prayers have been offered for these
women by good women of Lexington in
their houses, but SO far no reformations
have been made.
Moore had many promises from those
seen by him that they would willingly
accept solution to the difficulty which
gave promise of future.
have been to see the young woman
very pretty and attractive" alluded to in
the St. Louis Chronicle. She fills the
bill She is quite handsome, and her
manners are good, and she speaks good
English.
She took the address of the gentleman