The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-22
COT THE MONEY.
Ladies' Music Club Helps Crit
tentOn Home.
Secure Enough Funds to Move
Hospital Building.
CONCERT A SUCCESS.
Unity Church Was Crowded to
the Doors.
All Participants Acquitted
Themselves With Credit.
CONCERT A SUCCESS.


1t was well that the Ladies Music
club changed their plans for the loca-
ton of the benefit concert which they
gave for the Florence Crittenton home
last night. 1t was the intention Of the
club to give the concert in the drawing
room of one of the members of the
club, but the advance sale of tickets
was so much greater than was antict-
pated that Unity church was selected
instead
The capacity of the little church was
tested and those who came were given
musical treat such as it is not ones
good fortune to hear every day, for
when sweet charity whispers the city
responds with the best talent she has to
give and last night was no exception
The programme last evening con-
sisted of the following selections and
a half dozen encores.
Duo for piano-March from Leo
more ....---.- Kan
Mrs J. W. Going, Miss Mary Harrison.
III Not Complain .Schutnallh
Miss Nina Thomas.
The Pine Tree slater
IT'S Summer in Thine Eyes
~ Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Miss Berenice Fuller.
Prelude ..... Rachmaninon
Miss Jean Parkhurst.
Mar1Quita Ma1AO
Mrs. Florence Fox-Thacher,
Piano number ......... Selected
Mr.. All KIingenberg.
Spanish Morning Serenade. Quicken
Mrs. F. s. Thomas, Mrs. L. S. Ferry
Mrs. George W. Parkhurst.
All, My Heart Is Weary.
Mrs. william ". & %iRi9a Ln0'nA7
Melody ....... Rachmaninon
Miss Ailabeile Troutnan.
Quintette- Wynken, Blynken and
Nod {, ~. ,.,. ,1.s csao,.oe "
Parkhurst, Mrs. L S. Ferry Miss
Iescher and Mrs. Frank Foster.
The principal interest in the pro-
gramme naturally centered in the
number by Mr. ALI Klingenberg,
pianist. who has not appeared before
this season in public and who is
always a great favorite with Topeka
audiences He played the March of
the Valkyries from Wagner's. Die
Walkure and a Grieg number in
encore. Mrs. George W. Parkhurst
sang two numbers exquisitely. Spring
4 by Leo Stern and 5Macy's Goodnight,
/ Little Girl, in response to an encore.
i All the performers acquitted them
(
were recalled. The programme was
1 Interesting and well chosen with re-
I spect to the audience, the occasion
and the gifts Of the performers.
| Perhaps the consciousness of an
especially worthy object inspired
the musicians The proceeds of the
1 concert, amounting to about S125, will
i be devoted to the local Florence Crit
/ tentOn rescue mission, and will be
used to move the small cottage hos
! v,ff f119 hac Of
| commission for some time owing to its
/ inaccessibility, and attaching it to the
main building. where it can be Of prac-
teal use to the institution, which is
! badly cramped for room.
The conditions at the Crittenton
/ home having been made known to
the Ladies' Music club, they generous
/ ly consented to give a benefit concert
and their project received substantial
encOurag cement from the public. One
woman who sold tickets for the con-
cert, however, encountered a few peo-
pie who were opposed to helping such
a cause on the theory that it would
T encourage Vicei The Rev. J. P
White. OF the United Presbyterian
church, made a short talk before the
| concert last night, telling something
/ of the work of the Crittenton rescue
missions, here and elsewhere. The OBJ
! ject of the mission is not, as some
seem to believe, to shield crime, but
! to help girls who have made mistakes,
to prevent their sinking into complete
degradation, and to assist them to re-
cover their lost position and to lead
4 useful worthy lives.
In other places where the missions
| are larger and sufficiently endowed
for that sort of thing all grades of the
rescue work are carried on and classes
of fallen women cared for. but in To-
/ peka only one grade of the work is
! done The girls who are taken in at
| the local Crittenton home are almost
all young and are comparatively limo
/ cent. They are suffering the conse-
quences of a first mistake and the mis-
sion furnishes them a temporary home
and shelter and afterwards finds them
I honorable work, enabling them to care
for tn ennSelVes and their ba bieS One
/ of the fundamental ideas of the Crit
+ tenton rescue work is that the mother
/ should never be separated from her
child Many applications are received
/ at the CrlttentOn home in Topeka from
I people who wish to adopt the babies
/ born there. but these are invariab bly, re-
fused except in the case of the death
/ Of mother. The Crittenton rescue
I theory Is that the child will be the
[ strongest influence for good in the
mothers life-the strongest link be-
i tween her and purity and decency-
I her main object in all right endeavor.
The results of the CrittentOn rescue
work speak eloquently for themselves.
Ninety-five per cent of the girls who
enter CrittentOn homes absolutely re-
form and lead good, useful, tndepend-
ent lives In the face of such q fact
( it is hard to understand how any one
could think that lending assistance to
such a charity is an encouragement to
! vice. Without some external aid in a
/ critical period OF their lives perhaps
! 80 per cent of this 95 per cent of un-
fortunate but not necessarily wicked or
depraved girls would sink to the lowest
depths of humanity. The Crittenton
/ home holds out to them the helping
hand by which they rise again to an
honorable estate.