Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-11-08

prominent and where effort is more
largely in the line of lifting the fallen
than sustaining the virtuous-
Railroad employees, policemen, the
sanitary and court officials, everybody
in fact, direct unfortunate young
women to the home. The worthy are
aided in their quest of employment.
The home has an excellent reputation
on account of its good management,
and many ladies in need of domestic
help call at the home before going to
the intelligence offices. When the
young women secure employment
they can also get further aid and en-
couragement. If girl is earning less
than $50 per month she may have bed
and board at the home for the small
sum of s.. per week. This idea of cheap
board-good, sound food and plenty of
it's Mrs. Wilkinson's. In her mis-
siOnary work she has discovered as
many as four CT five girls occupying
one room and eating but one meal
day, in an endeavor to live and dress
within incomes that in no case exceeded
So per week. The proprietOrs of stores,
for labor in which such small salaries
were paid, insist that the girls be well
clad; and in order to keep their places
the girls have to undergo the torture
of continual semi-Starvation. Some of
the proprietors of stores, where girls
are worked like slaves without ade-
quatc remuneration, are prominent in
Sunday school or church work. They
worship God on Sunday and worship
mammon during the six secular days
Of each week.
Mrs. Wilkinson, the founder of the
home, is a devout Christian. She very
frequently used to quote the text:
1.-THE rich and the poor shall meet to-
gether; and the Lord is the Maker Of
US all" In soliciting subscriptions for
the home she often touched the hearts
| and the pockets of the rich by quoting
that text in behalf of the poor.
While it is important to care for the
worthy and unfortunate girls and
young women of community, it is of
even more Importance that the father
less and motherless newborn babes
should be saved from suffering and
death. In all great cities there is
many child conceived in sin and born
in iniquity, and abandoned by the
mother who is neither maid. wife nor
widow. The Sisters of Charity, of st.
AIMS infant asylum, organized for this
| very purpose, are daily snatching from
the gutter little children, whose minds
have not yet been affected by their
surroundings, and training them up in
the way they should go. Primarily,
the object of the home is to provide for
orphans or half orphans, foundlings
and deserving INDECENT women in
childbirth. The privilege of retaining
the children when they are entirely
abandoned is given to the sisters
under the act of congress incorporat-
ing the institution in 1868.
The children are most excellently
| drilled and disciplined. Invariably
kind and forbearing, the sisters treat
them with tenderness and solicitude,
looking after their spiritual as well as
| material welfares. They are carefully
taught in the precepts of the church
under whose auspices the institution
| was founded. When they become too
large for the institution, and are able
to take toddling care of themselves,
| they are taken to the ST. Joseph's
| asylum in Emmetsburg, if they are not
reclaimed by their parents or friends.
Stretched on the floor in every one Of
the great variety Of attitudes OF which