The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-21
WORK OF WOMEN'S
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THROUGH THE STATE

The Devils Lake Twentieth Century
club met on Tuesday afternoon at the
home Of Mrs. Kneeshaw. After the
business session the following program
was rendered and much enjoyed by all
present. Roll call was responded to
h' Christmas "reminiscences. \ poem
entitled Retrospect" was given by
Mrs. sather. Mira. Powell read an in
teresttng article from the Courant.
The Christmas Company" was given
by Mrs. Simonstad. After the pro-
gram the ladies partook of a bounti.
full and delicious luncheon served by
the hostess.
Social center work is being given a
srcat deal of attention by Fargo's club
women and neighborhood meetings
are being held every week. prepara-
tory to arranging a strong program of
lessons and lectures for the new year.
The Hawthorne club ME. last even
ing at Hawthorne school. with Al good
attendance. a very fine address was
made by William Ballou on The VAL
Tie of Social Center Work." and City
Attorney W. II. Shurc spoke on The
Railway Franchise" Coffee and light
refreshments We're served at the con-
%clusion of the program.
II workers of the Florence Crit
tenton Home at Fargo who are bend
ing every effort to furnish their new
building with modern equipment and
make their family Of girls happy and
cheerful send out the following state
mcnt which surely will be of interest
to the members and friends Of the To-
cal C%rittcnton Circle:
IF ono wt,rp I'm lnnlS in nnnO tho
twcnty-eight girls now residing at the
%Crittenton home just after the supper
hour has arrived. he would be sure to
experience Il surprise, unless he were
already prepared. He would see seat
ed about the inviting tables "a lot of
bright looking girls. some of them
very neat and by their carriage betok-
responsibility quite unexpected. Some
now, there remains an impression in
the minds of many people that these
young girls are cast rather in the
rough. an estimate tina is both unjust
and untrue. To be sure. there are all
kinds of women congrcgated together
under this roof, but 1t is nut fair to
say that those predominant who have
known responsibility. and to whom the
mere fact Of their being there would
have been as surprising to them as
1t may seem to you some time agonc.
1T takes 'all kinds OF people to
make a world and sometimes it takes
all kinds of a world to make-or UNI
make-a mar or a woman. The won-
der Of 1t is. hat girls whose ability
Is day by day proven as this institu-
ton. and where cleverness needs only
favorable environment for its best de-
velopment, should have been buffeted
about in the storm and stress of earn
Ing a livelihood until perhaps her
loneliness, her isolation and her de-
pendence upon companions of doubt
full ~desirability became responsible for
her deviation from the ways in which
she has been nurtured. For it is. M
deed. a mistake to suppose that the
refuge IN this home Of the shelter
ing arms" arc all ignorant or base.
Whatever her mood when she comes,
within a short time the gentle infu-
enccS cast abou her begin to tell. and
the girl finds herself gazing upon a
new world of hope and of comfort.
She begins to believe that after all,
she is not a degraded crcature-far
from it. She is Il young woman who
has yielded TO a~mistaken impulse
she has trusted. too far. she has paid
the penalty. she has awakened to find
that all things have changed.
What then? 1t is down-or up?
Is it to give up to revolt and to dis
pair or Is it to bravely pick up the
cross-alOne. M so utterly lonely
and declare to the world that there is
yet life and duty and love and useful
ness for her?
"Crittenton Home answers this
question. Go and see. If there is one
who is skeptical. The home might be
called the Emblem of the Future"
for in the bright, smiling faces, the
CHEEKY ways and the busy fingers
whether nimble or only patient-one
reads the answer. 1t is life again, and
hope and a new outlook. And with
this ruth in their hearts the young
women who are today under it's roof,
prepare to leave the institution carry
ing with them courage for themselves
and for others. Working in the Kitten.
en-. sewing all day long, or in what
ever occupation, hope continues to
sing. and faith keeps them buoyant.
"These young women simply ask a
son. more h ever to respond to
their appeal. Until that time comes,
they must be cared for. the Christian
influences about them must continue.
Will the readers Of this article help
them?
Send money. il it is possible, for
glass to enclose the great porch, SO
that the young babies may be taken
out for a. breath OF air. The solid
comfort OF the summer may be con-
tinued all through the winter II this
improvement car be made. It will
take SO and every dollar contributed
toward that fund alone will make the
work Of the nurses easier, for 1t will
make brighter and healthier babies.'
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