The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-07

porary employment for women and girls
waiting for work.
FOR AMBITIOUS GIRLS.
BY promo tion we aim to meet the crav-
ing OF ambitious girls for extended sduca-
tion through training schools ana CLASSES ,ss
seem that any young girl would DE sate
In leaving home 10 earn her living IN a
is sheltered within the fold the ninety
and nine
An exaggeration do you say? IT, indeed.
this seems so 10 be let the Christian pub
lie arouse itself become intelligent on
this most important subject and then
D5sTee ss oSstr'sS Ss dSne IT. Though psah
Y. ". c. As from their hrst Inception,
multiply throughout the length and
breadth of our land, and though they are
springing UP on every side, the great
outcry from the army OF wage earning
young women. continues 20 be made
quate, to meet present needs, and this
mainly is from those who seek 10 make
their lives all that God intended them
10 be-lackiDg only the chance to do IL.
The local Y. w. c. A. worker who
comes I'm daily contact with these young
women. seeks, by every means In her
power, 10 carry out the original plan OF
the organization, but she soon learns
from observation, from a study OF exist
ing conditions and often from sad expe-
riences how imperfect are even the best
OF methods. when an attempt is made 20
cope with the fearful tide OF evil inhu-
ences from without. When a girl can go
on the stree any evening and for tens
cents enter a brilliantly lighted han,
listen 10 music. join in the promiscuous
dance--all night II she chooses-the Y.
w. c. AS see kto meet this problem OF
no VITO save her by some kind OF an
Offset She is not prepared TO listen to
good counsel Sermonizing or inviting
10 religious meetings will not do at this
juncture.
In due time the result for faithful closet
prayer FOR this girl VIII be seen ana feis; n;
upon the same principle as in any other
kind OF fishing; we must use the right
kind or attraction. or we fail In our pur-
pose.
AGED MANS OPINION.
An aged man who had spent his life In
suppressing vice, was asked one day IL
there was any evident Improvement in the
morals OF the community where he had
iabored. He replied immorality. & is on
women" When asked the cause, he an
swered as follows:
First. living in lodging houses where
every room In rented, and consequently
the girls sleeping apartment is her only
reception room. Also being forced 70 take
her meals at cheap restaurants. second,
cheap theatres and dance halls. Third,
the forced pomenade OF the streets at
night OF girls who have but chilly hall
bedroom or some other uncongenial atmos-
phere in the only place they can call
home Fourth, personal vanity. love OF
dress and love of admiration.
Miss Drinkwater closed her address by
giving some suggestions as remedy Tor
the above unfortunate condition which
may be met and overcome by the work OF
the Y. w. g. A.
The closing address OF the evening was
by Miss Emery. Briefly she spoke OF the
great good which was sure to result from
the work proposed by the Y. w. c. A,
after which the meeting closed with a
hymn and the benediction by Bishop Nc
Vickar.
IL should be added that all subscriptions
TO the building fund OF the Y. w. G. A.
be sent to Mrs. John X. III. Nightingale,
the treasurer of the same.