Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-25

tories, and charitable substitutes for
homes in general.
Only a few years ago the effort OF
philanthropy would have been to cast
these thousands in one mould, like so
many buttons, subjecting them all to
the same treatment regardless OF their
i Idividual characteristics. The wiser
yoiicy of today gives the personal
equation first consideration. 1t be-
gins by making acquaintance-the in.
innate acquaintance, such as can be
gained only by personal contact
with the surroundings that have pro-
duced the young unfortunates and the
people who have been responsible for
their care. the New York Juvenile
asylum, for instanee-the Protestant
institution to which, with the Catholic
and Hebrew protectories, the city au-
thorities conslgn most of the waits
who come directly under their notice
employs a. visitor to cultivate this
personal acquaintance in the light of
which so much of its work is done.
There has been at the juvenile asy
lum for month now a well-grown
German lad of twelve whose peculiar
Indifference and hardness always at
tracts attention. His mother, at
home in three rooms of tenement
on the upper East Side, cries about
him every day, calling him my
Philip"
he vas not bad boy, my Philip"
she says to the visitor, only he has
cursed so hart und vas always NIT de
bad boys. Nights he would stay oud,
unit den, because he is afraid of get
ting vipping Off his papa, he don't
dast come back. Sometimes he comes
back unit sleeps in der hall outsite;
but he wouldn't never come in.
Den, one morning, ven he had been
away tree nights, he comes in unit
says, Mama he says, Won't you gift
me a cup of coffee?' Unit tell him
must take him to der judge to put
him away because l vas not able to
keep him from der bad boys. But he
has broke my heart" wept the patient,
stolid-looking German woman.
Yet in this home appears to be
nothing to drive boy away. The
rooms are bare. but they are clean
and wholesome; there is even an at
tractiveness about them. The mother,
distressfully thin and sad, has touch
ing tenderness of manner toward her
children. the father is a sober, hard
worker who uses his authority with
his family justly and kindly. 1t seems
to have been the curse OF the pave
ments'' that made Philip unmanage-
able
Only two doors away there is an
other German mother whose boy was
sent to the asylum from the children's
court for stealing a gold watch.
Here, too, there are many things, that
might help youngster to be good;
certainly there is nothing that need
estrange him from the home influence.
But Hermann succumbed to tempta
tjon one day, when taking bundle
of washing to one of his mothers Gus
tomers. he found the watch lying upon
the table.
Hermann will do anything to get
money-always must he hat money,
his mother told the visitor. He will
come by me first, und wen he gets all
II haze. he will go out und stole some.
once he took wash which gave
bill of seven dollars and sold it foi
Elm dollar. Dat bay was crazy NIT de
theeytre. Dere amt no night what he
amt went dere since long time"
Such cases are exceptional. how
ever. Most often squalor, misery and
hunger can be traced In deep lines
through the stories Of the asylum's
charges Four tots were before the