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Chances are. though cannot say
positively, the woman refused to 81
low her husband to be sent to the
WorkhOuse when he was brought IN
here The self-sacrifice of you women
is so great that even when the display
Of it means bitter priyatioD you Will
not have the men treated as they de-
serve.
AS that especial woman is situated
now she should come here and state
her case plainly. She does not at all
have to be thrown in with the rough
element of which she complained. for
after hours, when the court has adj
journed, / gladly hear complaints All
those people sitting out there now are
waiting to gain my ear. She states
that her mother-in-law. who has re-
Gently died, had money If any of that
has been left to the husband he can
the proper maintenance of his children.
We do not consider the wife here
fnancially-it is all for the youngsters.
OF course. if he is beyond the jurisdic-
ton of the court we can do nothing
until he comes within it. But I fail
to see from her letter that she has
taken any steps to notify the Juvenile
Court of his conduct since his promise
TO pay.
"Unquestionably the woman is in a
listen to the stories of drunken brutality
and desertion and want related To me.
II notice also that she mentions her boy
having roamed the street. Now that
evil can be eliminated at once If she
will ask to have Juvenile Court repre-
sentative look after him he will be kept
track of every day. But it is hard for a
woman 10 try to enact the role of both
he g
and comes home tired out. Then, instead
of being able to rest, her energies have
to be devoted to preparing the evening
meal l think our American women de-
serve great credit In that so few OF them
take to drink in proportion to the men
who do.
Frequently when such women come
here they appeal to me for work. And
very often 1 have succeeded in getting
il for them. y on ask me what this Wom-
an can find to do, and ! would suggest
that she search the Help Wanted col
umns of The Star. There are nearly al
ways advertisements in it of doctors who
wish women to clean their offices, bache-
lors who desire their apartments cleaned
and various odd jobs which occupy only
a part of the day in their performance
But there still remains the problem of
which she complains namely, what to do
with her children while she is away
tell you it is my firm belief that the city
and the nation would be the gamer if it
would set aside sum sufficient to enable
such mothers to remain in their homes
and look after their children. The result
in profitable young manhood and woman
hood would vastly overpay the expense
involved. Nearly every charity and ml-
nicipaI generosity has I'm 1t that flaw
the mother and her children must be sep
arated In my opinion such a course OF
procedure is contrary to nature and bound
to cause moral disaster.
There should be sort of day nursery
and kindergarten for Juveniles whose
fathers fail to support them or whose
mothers are dependent widows. where
the mothers could be given employment
or. else have l. Obtained for .heun and
rcr~-i..ei 70 .'er0 = l. 100 t,,ild' nf
with Nle.. Children. Loe-h Hi'arta raristS
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Waiting Their Turns.
pm the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
Poor tramps"" calculated the sympa-
thetic farmer as he fished out his leather
purse. here be a dime for each of you
to get a shave
1--WE are not tramps.' cried the I'M
shaven group, with much indignation.
Then what are you doing with that
weeks growth Of beard Oh your face?''
I'VE are summer boarders waiting our
turn to get a whack at the shaving mir
ror There is only one up at our board
Al,
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conld find no more noble charity to en-
dow. For no matter how worthy the in
stitution the child never thrives so well
as in the hOme-statistics all prove that
and. deprived of the restraining influence
of her children the mother is more like
~ to go wrong.
Miss Mary D. Merrick,' Judge De
Lacy went on to say, lis greatly inter-
ested in looking after just such women
and is endeavoring to have work provided
which the palmer class Of older women
can do and not be forced out by younger
girls of more robust health. / would adj
wise the woman in question to go to see
her or to apply to the Christ Child So
ciety, which was organized by Italians of
Washington, but finds work for any de-
serving women to do. l am not IN FAVOR
of child labor, but as the woman IS SIT
uated it would be better to let her boy
find something to occupy him during the
summer months than to roam the streets.
The Fairgrounds are open for a number
of hours each day. The young women IN
charge of them take especial care or
juveniles whose mothers are working, ana
unless the children are incorrlg1ble they
probably would be glad to attend. or
course, car fare is an asset and such
grounds may be distant from the home
In the winter there is the school.
But school let's out before working
woman can return home after her daS
work. the writer suggested
Not if she were cleaning offices or
sewing by the hour--then her work could
be arranged for the mornings. what we
need is winter playground TO Whlcu
such children could go from their schoo'
such time when their mothers would be
al home. And the law should be stricter
on men who make such demands neces-
sary.'
Miss Florence NJ. Brown. secretary of
the local Young Women'S Christian AS
ISOLATION, was next shown the letter of
appeal and asked what she would suggest
for a woman in such circumstances.
II scarcely know was the dishearten-
ing reply. The field is SO small and
ployment only for young women. Oc-
casionally ones of very youthful age,
who have been deserted by their hsA-
bands or been forced to leave them.
squeeze in under our limitations and are
looked after. However, there has re-
Gently been organized in Georgetown a
charity. the Georgetown Industrial Cen
ter, meant to reach just such cases. be-
lieve. Women can go there to sew and
make rag rugs, the sort that are so
popular just now. If she will apply here
l will gladly give her any information
regarding it, Some prominent George
town women are interested and they
hope. by so regulating the hours, to en-
able women with small children to be
at home when. most needed and to thus
save them the necessity of putting their
children into institutions. Still, there is
always the chance. Of course as that
woman says, of her health failing under
the double strain. The female was never
intended to be both breadwinner and
keeper of the home.
I'm this particular instance II is a bit
easier to find a remedy because those
children are CID enoueh To he left There
So uid e Q place 81 eng th., could = L.
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marry whatever is left. How could the
Poor object to such an arrangement?
l make lecture to my Tourists on this
educated subject.
Fellow Indians I collapse, I'VE are
now surrounded by Pittsburg. 1t is the
hardware center OF the L. S. Where
would America get his hairpins, battle
ships, shovels and buttonhooks if it
wasn't for Dfttsburg? Where would we
get the cannons that keep down riots and
the tacks that keep down carpets? Where
would we get the iron lamp-posts that
lead us gently home at night after
tired drunk? / ask to know" (All Togo
Tourists reply by saying nothing) "The
steel of Pittsburg is famous the entire
over-world circumference for its high
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vacation times. whether the weather was
rainy dr fair, and stay under the protec-
tion of proper persons. But there isn't:
And once a husband has, deserted
his wife or she him it seems al
most impossible to get them to live to-
gether in harmony again. During my eX-
perience l have seen innumerable cases
of young girls really not old enough to
be out of the schoolroom left with chill
dren by nO-account husbands who skip
off at the first intimation of want. They
come here to me and. until this latest
sewing scheme was devised, had no
remedy. The situation is a problem. No
wonder that woman wrote to The Star
for advice,
She could put her children into the In
dustrial Home for while. it seems to
me. They will be given over to her at
any time that she shows she can sup
port them. That. I think, would be bet
ter than permitting them to spend their
days in the Streets
Judge Alexander r. Mullowny of the
Police Court took rather different view
Of the matter.
There isn't any charity i'm course
which separates the mother from her
child" he maintained. Il have had
young women come before me whose ba
bies l could see were their sole salvation.
| am often forced to send these little ones
to asylums or homes, but I always hate
to do it. The mother promises that just
as soon as she gets work she will take it
opt. But maybe she has hard time
finding it, or else she does find it. and
use of her money just for herself. At
any rate. very often she does not bother
about the child again She has been
weaned away from it.
I'm this woman's case which you men
ton / can see very little chance for her
with those children. though. No matter
what branch Of domestic service she
might enter she would find them handi-
cap. NV suggestion is that she enter
complaint against her husband at the
Juvenile Court and compel him to sup
port them Then she could afford to have
them looked after while she was at
work If he has any employment he Will
merely be put under bond to pay 50
much a week for their maintenance. ANA
I think she must be wrong about IL pei1e
impossible to make him appear at tie
precinct station. That's what the ponce
are partlv for If she would go 10 the
Juvenile Court, or to see the district at
torney, I am confident something Will De
done She certainly should not nave
waited all this time to make complaint.
The whole secret iS''-and here he echoru
the words of Judge De Lacy-"women do
so detest to have anything done to their
husbands.
when human nature can't stand any
more they finally summon enough nerve
to have their shiftless or drunken nus
bands brought into court once tnere
the minute ] mention workhouse they
turn on me and get into rage at the
mere idea of such a thing. But 1t Is a
snlendid plan. just the same. Congress
appropriates a certain sum each session
for payment for the . work OF d ppis them
But the stripes have horror for evely-
bodv-especially for women. The mother
instinct is so strong in them. and they
can't bear to see their chfidren's rather
r~edc felon.
1t IL easy to sdvise,' continued JUdS :
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go up SO easy & come down so hard
Steel of Pittsburg. What makes hui cir
cular cannon-balls what explode in war
fare to kill folks with such delicious
suddenness? Steel of Pittsburg! What
gives such fashionable shape to young
ladies who appear tightly compressed up
& down like music-rolls? Steel of Pitts
burg
please explain what Pittsburg has did
for Art, Literature & Music" require
one Harvard Indian with imported voice.
"Ain't literature manufactured by tipe-
writers?'' 1 snib for scorn. "Aint tipe-
writer's made from steel? Amt steel
made from Pittsburg? All, then. What
would all L. S. magazines do without
Justus Miles Forman, Anna Katherine
Green and Cy Townsend Brady working
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Steel. He was discussing Hon. Hans
Wasner's batting average"
Nogi tainted slightly on my necktie.
When Hon. Corey seen my Togo Tour
lists standing around in punches like
grapes he removed his sad-dog express
sion & said baffably.
SHOULD you like me to show you the
interior insides or this hard steel busi-
ness?'
Deep breathing by all.
80 High Mr. say man named Smith
who had shook hands with Col. 7. r.,
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large like n. Y. Ifippodrome and boiled
with extravagant Inferno. At each. drop
in of iron chunk this great cooker make
confiagration Of corrupt fire insurance
resembling Mr.. Devil stewing doughnuts.
this boiled iron?'' I require with nervous
teeth.
''Soonly you shall see,' comply Hon.
SQUAD.
We await o minutes when, o suddenly!
All laboring persons grabb enormalous
hook which they splunge into that moult-
ing mass and in the midst Of aggravated
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hers going through precisely the same
struggle.
True. only one side of her situation is
shown and it is impossible to obtain the
other. but after interviewing representa-
tive members of all the various aSsocla-
tions and courts in which such cases are
dealt with. it appears plausible that she
has written truly.
From her own statement the woman
was married at fifteen. a romantic age
in the time of ones grandmother, when
the main idea of the woman was to
make and stay in the home, but one
which the local students of humanity
declare proves a strong factor in the dis
rupting of families. For some uneXplain-
ed reason more men seem TO desert very
Young wives than when their other
halves are of settled age. Possibly
because the husbands in such instances
are generally themselves rather loo
youthful for the heavy responsibilities OF
husband, father and provlder on small
wages Worry causes drink. drink leads
10 ouarreling at home, the children seek
the streets to escape unpleasant sur
roundings and eventually the husband
deserts, or the wife finos 1t Impossible
TO tolerate him. This is a composite ex-
PLANTATION offered by fully half dozen
persons. whose daily work takes them
into Just such homes and conditions.
Before Judge De Lacy of the Juvenile
Court there passes every day an almost
continual procession of husbands hailed
into his presence by wives with minor
childl en- For the law ordains that par
ents may separate or not AT Will, but the
children are innocent and must be looked
after. He read the woman's letters to
The Star.
II get as many every morning" he ex
planned, land they nearly all have at the
bottom the one cause-drink.
II counsel the husband TO contribute to-
ward the support of his children. If
he has employment reasonable amount
is deducted from his salary each week
or month. If he is out of work and not
Ill he is sent to the workhouse.
The visitor inquired blankly what bene
fit such imprisonment could be TO the
family, for it smacked strangely of the
old English method of locking debtor
up until he found the money TO pay his
obligations.
II send them to the workhouse, you
see. and they work" he replied.
THAT name isn't any misnomer. They
work and are paid 80 cents day for
such labor. and 1t goes to the support
of their children. OF course. l cannot
keep a man there indefinitely and usually
it is about thirty days. or two months.
He was reminded that the woman who
wrote the letter had said she got only
promises" after having her husband ar
rested and no money had ever been
Forthcoming. He was asked to explain
just now she should go about making
her husband support her children.
In such 4 case, he stated. ''she
should have informed the court that
her husband was failing to appear at
the precinct. You noticed the case just
now OF the man whose brother had
skipped town owing money for his
child? Wei an order has beer issue
s"r big .. pr ~ matter Wne1 lie
-- :, ...,.}instSH AZ viii be served.
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OR more than ten
years I have been
struggling. toilins
to support myself
and children, while
he, the father and
husband, roa m s
a ut absolutely
without q care and
utterly oblivious OF
his duty toward his
children and wife.
I have had splendid
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me & Nogi
got as far west as
Wyoming we de-
eide to make a
dash to Pittsburg.
We could hear the
Call of the Tame
C o a X ! n g us to
Pennsylvania with
earnest Thompson
Seton voice. And
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date cash?'' But Hon. Corey merely
look forgetful.
He lead us into a room which was
large g. fiat like the State of Kansas.
While passing by doorway Hon. Tele-
phone make ring-up.
'Who there?" require Hon. Corey, put
ting Hon. Tel to ear-side. 20, good
afternoon, Hon. J. J. Hill You say you
wish to buy sufficient steel rails to eX-
tend from Duluth to Rockaway Beach?
Too busy to talk to you now. please.
have important 10 minutes with Hashi-
mura Togo. Good buy!'
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when them rude cattle farmers or Cney-
enne continued poking cold shoot-guns
against our sensitive skins we became
very glib about promenading Eastward.
So we set our intelligent ottomobile
Seeing America on a shady corner of
Wyoming and holla with megaphone
voice, "Who wish see Pittsburg, price
$50 apiece
Immediate stampede of footprints. Great
attempt to get on by all human inllabi-
tants. 16 Indians wearing Harvard sweat
ers paid carfare and showed their will
ingness to elope with us. Annexed to them
came the Mayor of Wyoming accom-
panied by a man named Smith who had
welt.
Crank-up by Nogi. When lastly seen
our 4-circular tires was observed scoot-
ing in sunrise direction where they was
determined to CO.
state of Penn which we recognized by
its soldly republican appearance. All
farming persons along bye-roads spy us
with eyes & exclaim:
20 Togo Tourists, Withdrawals are
you going so tasty with fy-wheel
Jumps
I'VE wish see Pittsburg. please" holla
me & Nogi together like chorus girls.
No intelligent reply answered to this.
Where should we find this Pittsburg,
il anywhere?' I corrode chivalrously
Follow the smoke and you can't miss
it," negotiate Hon. Farmer as he con-
tinued shaving vegetation with hoe.
SO We done like he said so.
With immediate quickness We arrived
to a middle-aged brunette city contain
ing 321,6I6 human Inhabitants and a
Mayor. Pittsburg is composed of
classes: the Rich and the Poor. The
Rich are very wealthy and the Poor are
somewhat less SO. Everybody in Pitts
burg does something. The Poor make
the Bridges and the Rich play 1t. The
rich attend to the horse-racing. ottono-
biles and social chat-chat while the Poor
manage the coal-shoveling, steel-press-
ing and heavy lifting of iren rails. Thus
" the work is divided SO that nobody
shall be lonesome The Rich marry
dukes & chorus girls, while the Poor
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So he hitch up Hon. Telephone & con-
tinue EDWARDS showing us.
This room where We was contained
considerable heat. steel rails, working
classes, etc. all employed by Mr.. Corey
steelers was poking scrap-iron into a
gigantiferous wash boiler which was
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financial quality. 1t is contained in every
thing, in safety-razor. safety-pin. safety
bicycle. What makes Aerial Navigation
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SEEING PITTSBURG,

To Editor Sunday Star, who is famous
for the purity of his reporters,
Dear Mr.
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night & day shifts on Pittsburg tipe-
writer's? Surely yes. If there was no
tipewriters Literature would be scarce
like snakes legs
Shakespeare & other poets of ancient
Grease did not manufacture song with
tipewriters. did they" require Gov. of
Wyo horsely.
Hush off, l snib. shakespeare was
a improper poet who wrote about Venus
and is unfit to associate with Ladies
Home Jouornal
Quiet silence enjoyed by Hon. Gov of
Wyo.
What would Music be without Pitts
burg piano strings?" I nextly rejoint
And listen to all the phonografs in the
world. 1t is them solid steel phono-
gratis what has turned America into
mass of music and has made Sunday
afternoon so hard to bear
what Art has Pittsburg ever nader
require that Harvard Indian with DIR.
Eliot eyebrows.
burg" corrode with dignity. 'If bed
springs are not Art, what are they?''
All stood CAST attempting to know what
was.
BY short walks we came to normal
ously swollen Factory which stood proud
ly rumbling and shooting sparks like
Congressman Hobson at School Teach
ers' Convention. This was L. s. Steel
Co. We knew it from it's photo and from
it's wicked Stock Exchange appearance
In door Of this great hardware brewery
we seen sweet family sight. It was
Hon. Chas. NJ. Squad and Hon. VIM. E.
Corey standing closely sidewise to each
other with bride & groom expression.
$50 ha." say Nogi tackfully, ''let us
make sneak-step behind them great
men so we can tap their conversation
and get tip-off on some stock apparatus
that will make us rich by Wall street"
So we walk up to them softly like
caterpillar crossing sponge. Hon. Corey
hook Mr.. Squad by vest-button and shot
him an earnest remark.
"Hon. Chas,'' say him, what you
think it will be?'
Hon.. Wm," say Hon. Chas. 81 inn
agine if this keeps uply that it may arise
to 1S7 before the week is exterminated'
C"Banzai.' I whispered to Nogi, I'VE
now know everything. L. s. Steel shall
arise to 1877. We are tipped. Already 1
have Waldorf-Astoria sensations in my
elbows.")
"Ah. Chas.'' say VIM, II am Pitts
burgher enough to think it may go higher
than that
("sakes." snagger Nogi, "how criminal
~ rich I shall become")
Hon: SQUAD & Hon. Corey hear this
collapse. They turn around harshly with
calamity eyebrows.
How thus?' they holla. "Why for you
listen at our confidential chatter? What
sayings did you hear us say"
80 sweethearted Mr.. Sir I obligate
with falling knees, I'VE could not move
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ARE YOU STILL AWAKE?

Copyright 1870 by the Associated Literary
Prcss)
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I'm this particular instance II is bit
easier to find remedy because those
children are CID enoueh To he left. There
s,.c uiJ ie place 81 eng th.., could =, T..
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conld find no more noble charity to en-
dow. For no matter how worthy the in
stitution the child never thrives so well
as in the home-statistics ali prove that
and deprived of the restraining influence
of her children the mother is more like
ly to go wrong
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hers going through precisely the same
struggle
True only one side of her situation is
shown and it is impossible TO obtain the
other but after interviewing representa-
tive members of all the various aSsOcia-
tions and courts in which such cases are
dealt with. it appears plausible that she
has written truly.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-02-21
Various Opinions,

A number of leading attorneys of
the city who have been consulted
upon the matter have been unanimous
in the expression of belief that the
law is extremely vague, and that it
will be necessary for the legislature
to remedy these defects before the
new government can go into effect.
Several prominent citizens have ex-
pressed the belief that all the trouble
may be overcome by a special pro-
vision of the charter comforting upon
the municipality the privilege to elect
the officers proposed without in any
way interfering with the present ar
rangement until the terms of the pres.
ent incumbents shall expire, other
provisions of the instrument not to
become effective until that date
In the meantime, pending a salts
factory solution of the difficulty, nc
one appears to be overly anxious to
announce himself as a candidate fol-
office either under the code chapte,
or the commission plan, and wpe
Ii, ed that Governor Noel's or
wiNe called to the matte tha