Blue-grass blade., 1894-11-11

not brothers and sisters, boys and little
baby daughters growing up; and may not
one false step cast our idolized ones into
the yawning hells, open and waiting with
greedy flames to consume? Have we
not helped to make these hells, and our
ancestors? Men and women we have
done it, and until all rise up together,
men and women helping each other in
this great work, and these fallen women
helping us to help them, nothing will
be done.
We can shut our lips in our parlors,
under it all, eating, eating, eating.
We may call on the Lord and pray for
the lost ones, as some do, and consider
our duty done, but prayer is not work;
God helps those who helps themselves.
Christian women hire a negro girl
with perhaps three babies at home, who
could not for the life of her tell which is
the father of each, and yet will drive
from their door a poor white girl, in
virtuous indignation, who has one pitiful
child. These women tell such a white
girl that the poor house is too good for
her, and that she had better go to a
reform school. They do not tell her, in
so many words to 90 to house ofshame
but it amounts to that, all the same
They would not have such a thing to
nurse their children, mercy, No." But
the black nanny of many babies, also
of many colors, sometimes, may teach
her children all the filth she desires, so
long as the dear ones do not speak of it
to mama
The girl sinner is not the only soul
that fills these places.
There is another kind, fully as much
to be pitied, and fully as worthy of help
as the girl sinner.
Often a nice girl marries a man for
love. After while his passion for her
cools, and he goes back to his old vile
haunts. The wife, perhaps, has several
pretty children, but even these do not
make up for the loss of the husband and
love of society, and ten to one, if she is
a woman of good deal of animal in her,
she finds new lover.
These are the women who are not cap
able of grand sacrifice of self for the
right. They long for love, and gener-
ally get it, or, at least, poor substitute
for it. Some day the husband finds it
out. Tableau! wife in tears, begs for
forgiveness and a little love, and makes
promises that very likely she would keep
with her husbands help.
But no. the man turns blacker than
the woman, gets divorce, takes his
children, puts them in the care of an
unloving hireling and pursues his dirty
course unmolested.
What ofthe woman? The very woman
friends who should help her do not
speak to her. Church members ginger
ly pull their skirts aside as they pass her
and look stonily another way.
She hnds work hard to get, II she
wants II, and she goes TO one OF two
places-a mouse OF shame or the grave
OF suicide.
Snurcn members, pure good women
OF all beliefs, ask you how many such
have you saved, or tried to save! Again
ask you now many tunes nave you mad
a chance 10 heip such and drawn back,
Tor lear OF sullying your own purity by
even mere contact with them'
NO contact with' or sight OF evil, can
smirch the whlteness OF good woman's
soul or character, as the kind, though
mistaken, ladies' VINO nave visited these
houses IN person have amply proven.
They are even better than they were, for
they nave proven their sincerity.
Thls letter is not meant to be TRADE
against chuIcn women. admire and
respect all OF them VINO i've honestly up
to their hrm Deliefs. But take the
right to point out the mistakes they
have made and are making.
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