Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-17
the night world.
Closer Guardianship Needed.

IF those responsible for the first, and
second. and third. and fourth drinks given
to these girls could see and appreciate the
end Of the story-then perhaps there
would be a closer guardianship cast about
our young womanhood.
1.-THE PLACES where these young girls are
permitted to take their first drink are just
so many helIs. They are disgraces to this
country-and disgrace is too mild q word.
i see the results here week after week.
They are the most pathetic cases I have,
l think, the young women who have
abandoned themselves to drink.
at In 10 hard to see q girl brought
here for the first time because she has
been drunk and noisy ON the streets.
Eve heard them plead so hard to be
spared the awful disgrace Of being
sentenced.
II didn't realize what I was doing.
they'll say. What will become of me II l
am sent down as vagrant? When get
out who Is there to help me? Let me be-
SIN over again.
Hardened With Offending.
There are some OF these girls whose
first trip to the workhouse. following the
time when they would cut loose from
home entirely and give themselves up to
this cheap music hall beer and high ball
ever be called on to undertake. Often
It never reforms them. and then the
second trip and the third trip are easier
"ProbabIy by the time they are ar
rested again they have lost every atom
of self-respect. Instead of being fresh
faced girls they are hardened, tough
yvomen-harpies that prey ON the pas-
sl0nS of men.
Il have made it rule. generally, to
send young girls who have started wrong
In these music halls, where the LIQUOR
laws are smashed to atoms, to places like
the House of Mercy, the Crittenden Home
or the House Of the Good Shepherd
Those places and places like them do
a world Of good. I believe they are able
to show girl where she is foolish In
sticking to the music hall and back ROOM
One GIRLS Progress Downward.
I'll have one case in mind in particular,
striking example of the absolute fall
of young girl and her positive refusal
now, to even undertake. to reform her
life. She came before me about two or
two and half years ago, a pretty, in
nocent, unconscious slip of a girl. charged
with diSorderly conduct.
She had been drinking and was ar
rested for creating a disturbance on the
street. l talked to her and found her
intoxication of the night before was far
from being her Tauit and let her go.
Not long after that she came before
me again on the same charge. An in
vestigation showed the same condition OF
affairs as on the former occasion. We
made an effort to bring those responsible
to trial. This failed.
II later sent the girl to charitable in
stitution, under a promise that she would
drop her old companions and live better.
ut wasn't long before she was out again
and before me third time on another
charge growing out of drinking In. back
rooms of saloons. To my surprise,
learned she had acquired the morphine
habit. l promptly sent her to the work.
house.
"Since then she has been before me
probably three or fOur more times on
each occasion more hardened, more shame
less and frankly admitting she didn't
care to lead any other life. The last time
she went down she suggested that send
her to a charitable institution instead