The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-16
TRAFFIC IN GIRLS"
Mrs. Edholm Delivers the Third Of Her In
teresting Talks on This Subject.
A LARGE AUDIENCE IN ATTENDANCE.
She Tells About What She Saw I'm the
Houses visited by Her Thursday
Night nnd Advises All Women 10
Enter Rescue work-No visit TO
the SIums Last Night.

The attendance at the Freemason-
Street Baptist Church last night to
hear Mrs. Charlton Gdholm's third talk
on the Traffic in Girls" was larger
than on the previous nights. the church
DeinG well filled. ladies being largely
| In the majority.
After the usual devotional exercises
Mrs: Edholm began by referring to her
visit on Thursday night to the slums.
She said the object of these visits, she
feared. had been misconsrued by some
people, but II these people had heard
what the girls told her they would be
satisfied that it was a proper work.
II Know you came here because you
love these girls, for no respecta BILE
woman would enter here except through
love. said one of these girls" said the
speaker.
She told the story of an crring girl
VINO had been turned out of the house OF
christian womansand how that girl
afterwards went to the Christian wom-
IN and told her that her husband was
the most frequent visitor to the house
III which she then lived
For every girl who lives In tbese
houses there are from six to ten men
who visit them
IL Is not the girls who always tempt
ooss anu young men, but older men
must stand this responsibility. We
,,i'' 'eaci our boys from the cradle
|
boys sister like he would desire othcr
boys to honor his sister
- !Here u young man who visits
.t'se houses who would marry any of
me inmates? No. But they will come
=" Sour houses. court your daughters
these discussed men shall marry I'm
your family?" 49,
MIS- fuholm graphically pictured
no.ic oi me scenes she had witnessed
III me hospitals throughout the country,
NV, VIII you try to save thes,,
ertinE GlriS!' asked the speaker. For
every crring girl makes nine or Ter.
errlnS young men,"
ono spoke of the effects of alcohol on
me human system. and asked why n
WIS mat mt great banquets attended nv
.nc PRESIDENT of the United States. tho
women had to leave before Tho iion n,
was passed around
.nc SAID she believed that a boy of
sixteen could be as pure as n e,irI nr
,hat age. and told of visits she had
reserved fran young men and younr
..iiS anu now they had begun to realize
thc awful traffic in girls
Men should do this rescue work She
referred to those who had accomnoniod
hcr on the previous night in n highly
complimentary manner She bcIie, al
t--at the best way to make n youun nm,
~, '''oiplc ana proof against teln,.ta-
- '"N iiiiIi IItD rescue work
ior ms association with errinr girl.
IN tie cause of Christ, would make
him better man. NAM
airs Ehholm next spoke of nroctico,
,., IN me way of rescuing these girls
o,lc saiu lhcrc were forty lines OF rescue
Wp'h' one OF these was the noyvrr-dov
WORK When flowers were taken 10 nor
nhu women confined in prisons. size
nelalled stories showing the power or
Young girls could do this work Th,,.
rounn mol go out among the s]ums
put thcN could do sewing for I'M ,rirI.
VINO had been sent 10 the home
ono extended Il cordial fnyitntion =,
men ana women To join this movnnori
IN" asked for liberal contributors 10
me cause OF rescue work.
hrS. "dholm next took IN tho tam,,
ahce question. detailing many stories ~
me effect of drink on both men oni
women. i'tS" anu
When Mrs. Edholm concluded hor oil
dress Il collection WAS taken M ,nn
Soo.' sum realized. She also soib ,,,,,,
ttnp'cS OF her book, Traffic i'm t;irIs :;
49,, -, proceeds IRON the sale of which ca
mo inc general fund for rescue work
MIS- Eaholm did not visit the sl,,ms
1851 niSht' as was expected, but vii,
city e 'eiNeS Inc
Tonight she will talk to mon If III,
mon Mission, on lower Church street
ptit me ladies' arc also invited 10 hr
present. t'S' 70 DC