Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-17
FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
ne Lii Black Sheep"


woz fsir as De break oh day.
Al he say % hirelin, hasten,
Ia here. am de ninety -an-niue:
prt dan way of from de sheep-foi,
Is dat iii bFack sheep of mine
AMI de hireIiu frown 20 Shepherd.
he res oh de sheep am here.
mt de shepherd he smile, like de Ill brack
He hci t de mostest dear
And de shepherd go out in de darkness
Where he night was col and bleak,
An dat i'll brack sheep he find it,
An lay ii againS his cheek.
And de hirelin frown, 20 Shepherd.
Deu' bring Cat sheep to me.
Rnt de shepherd, he smile, and he mol 1t
An...dat Ill brack sheep, wuz....me.
rrbis negro version of The Ninety ana
Ninn" was reCited by Mrs. Alexander in the
Tnrrey- Alexander revival meetings IN Lon
don There were 10000 converted to
thirst through the meetings held in Eng
"""'l ~o+:O-
VIVA. 20 10 with Women C0nviCts.
The woman who goes wrong is a great
cr menace to society than the man who
errS This IS truth generally conced-
sd Inv penologists. but few persons out
side Of that class realize the fact that
- per cent. of the cOnvicts in American
prisons today are women, and fewer still
ara aware Of the new means which are
being adopted for the care Of these
charges upon the state. In one of his
remarkable articles upon the prison sys-
rem Of the United States, now appearing
in HamptoG's Magazine, Charles Ed
ward Russell that veteran reformer,
thus treats of the subject:
When a woman becomes q criminal she
is usually much more reckless, deter
mined. and desperate than the average
man criminal . A bad woman is worse
than a bad man." say the authorities,
and fortifY their opinion with reasons.
Thus Mrs. Ophelia l.. Amigh, the ma
iron Of the excellently conducted Won
ems Industrial prison, at Geneva, H.,
SAYS that the hysterical element in the
woman criminal renders her more des-
perate in her oifenses when at large and
more difficult to manage when she is in
custody.
Mrs Amigh. from her years of study
and observation, has come to divide
women convicts into three classes de-
pendents. detectives, and delinquents.
Dependents have been without homes.
reared haphazard or at the hand Of char
ity and without the restraining influence
Of their parents
Detectives are born into the world be
low the normal in mind and body. The
number Of these among the women CON
yctS is much greater than one would
suppose. Mrs Amigh's observation has
convinced her that the child of a drunk
ard father or drunkard mother IS almost
always defective mentally, morally, ply
sically. or in all three ways.
One of these Geneva inmates. q bright.
intelligent, good-looking young woman,
an accomplished musician docile and
0bedient otherwise. is one of the terrors
Of the institution because she is an in
corfgible thief She steals although she
knows that her thefts will be discovered
and punished, although she knows that
she cannot retain for more than a few
hours the trinkets and trifies that she
steals. And yet she cannot be cured OF
stealing; it is the inherent trait in her
mental or moral fiber. Nothing seems
to remove it.
Mrs. Amigh's third classification. de-
lnQuents, comprises those that 20 astray
because OF temptation, necessity condl-
tons. or ignorance.
Thus of the 800 women at Geneva.
only 10 per cent. have parents that are
YlnG together: 90 per cent come from
broken-up homes. or from no homes.
Their parents having been divorced or
SEPARATED, or else were never married.
surely here Is a stupendouS fact to
cohtemplate. We seem now to be coming
10 primal causes. More than 100 prisons
and retormatories in the United States
are exclusively for women. Take 10000
women annually committed to our penal
institutions and suppose that, as at &c
1era, 90 per cent. If these come from
destroyed homes. Is there not something
mere to give us serious thought: The
value of home influence is a phrase that
mes unnoticed from lip to lip. Here is
mathematical and indubitable measure of
mat value. here is the index of what the
unvlolated home means to society.
Among the women cOnvicts at Geneva
are several burglars and two horse
,meves One of the burglars IS Il former
oouSemaid. She had lost her place and
some money was owing to her. She
ofoke into the house one night and took
enough yaluables to cover her claim The
cases OF two others were more typical Of
conditions: they had become infatuated
WIN two vicious young men who had
@ught them to steal. taken the plumber
aI4 deserted them when trouble came.
WITH most of her charges. Mrs. Amigh
mas found moral regeneration quite pos
SiDle. She has system Oe arOusing
tlneIr interest in music and in things
ueautitul and good that really seems to
ualn the evil out of them. OF her
Sraduates many have won success and
1ohor in the outer world. One is the
I pest paid stenographer in Chicago. She
Hau been convicted of larceny. Until she
went to Geneva she had never known
"ne good influence.
Ar Geneva the girls receive a general
Fuucauon. are taught dressmaking and
AouseWork. and are specially trained in
music or art if they show aptitude for
tgL'her. Above all, they are placed under
Sle oenefcent parole system, one of the
H1EhteSt phases of the new day that IS
oeE!hhlng to come in our prisons
-o-.o-
curtain Lecture for Grumblers.
lou are chronic grumbler, that is
04at you are. You growl and grumble
alt The time. You imagine you have an
acne here or a pain there. You are
Watching your stomach furtively, and If
rumble or an eructation occurs you
51e up IN arms about it. About every
55ay YOU take something or other. Some
Pe 2r pill OF powder, and keep right on
m lou used to be as well as other men.
b-' was when you had plenty to do,
r1 L"F some reason or other you have
guy working, and you have nothing to do
a " "Hl to think Of yourself and stand
r.Na acting as if you were sick. and
r-o',-'- every one else sick of your COM