The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-09-23
IGNORANT OF THE DEITY.
Baltimore Girl Who Never Heard
Of the Creator.

Once Attended school. Put Sci
dom Goes Away From the House
Now-An Apparent Indifference.
BALTIMORE. Sept "a few days
since dispatches were sent cut from this
city t1 The effect that there was a TWEEN
ty-y,ar-0lJ Eirl who had never heard of
the deity a reporter for the Baltimore
sun has obtained th- following story
concerning h,r-
That there should be anybody living iD
"a city with more than 100 churches with
in its precincts who knows nothing about
God is almost Incredible
And yet, i'm a little alley that is not more
than minutes walk from Baltimore
Street. an alley that is within a stones
throw OF one OF the oldest Presbyterian
churches I'm the city. an alley that comes
to an end opposite Jewish synagogue.
lives Emma Paul the twenty-y,gT-oId
girl who was brought before Judge
Wickes in the Criminal Court oa Friday
to testify against her mother. Mary Paul.
and her mothers brother. Herman Win
sci. and who declared she was In iEaor-
ance Of the deity.
Questioned by the judEe-to ascertain if
| she knew the significance OF an oath-shc
declared that she had never heard of God
! ami had never been 10 a church OF sun
, day school. All she knew, she said. was
! her name and her age. After she had been
seaTchiugly questioned she said she knew
she would be punished IL she did not tell
the truth. and her testimony was ac-
Cept,d.
Emma Paul was at her home yesterday
when reported stopped there. Salisbury
alley, the street in which this home is
situated, is no worse than scores of little
streets in the city. Half a dozen little
houses huddle together near the Exeter
/ Street entrance To the alley. They are all
two or three stories high and not more
than one or two rooms deep. with base
m,nt entrances from the street and with
somewhat ricktty flights Of steps leading
NJ from the pavement 70 the main living
room.
The Pauls seem 70 be the only white
/ people living in the block. The rest Of
/ the houses are occupied by negroes. who
| were out yesterday summing themselves.
Stables take up the whole Of the upper
end of the block. The street was fairly
/ clean-I,aying out Of mind AN old tin can
] OF two and couple OF garbage boxes
| filled with refuse auad decaying water
melon riuds that are awaiting the next
I visit of the garbage man.
The girl was in the living room. stand
/ ing at a table near the window washing
! the dishes used for the Sunday dinner
/ Her father was sitting on a carpet-coy-
cred lounge watching her. The reporter
I walked UP the steps TO the open door and
asked If Emma Paul lived there "Da
list Sic" the father said. answering in his
native tongue and pointing al the same
l time To- the girl. The girl went on st1lid-
I ly washing the dishes-she might have
d "a obi In 7.
| the notice she took of the stranger
Her father called her 90 come 20 tho
door. She lifted her hands out OF the
| GlShpdn ana wiped them ON her glnGham
/ apron and then came 10 the door, Bier
l hands still hidden in the apron. and stood
/ there. passive, inert tISUrc- She is short,
seemingly not more than five feet tail.
and sturIily built. with an absolutely eE-
| prgssiyUless face, with light hair, blue
| eyes and fair COmpIeEion-WIIh a face
/ that needs only the glow or Intelligent
responsiveness To make ID attractive
She had on a short blue skirt and blue
Bingham waist and apron Her hEht halr
was brushed straight back from her face
and the hair was neatly comneu- iearing
the sound Of voices. the mother staggered
! in and half fen into chair near the win
1 dow. she made the AIR foul with her
Did nobody ever tell you anything
about G0G-abOut the Father in Heaven
} the girl was asked She was standing
with head dOwncasJ and with eyes liked
on the floor
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