New-York tribune., 1911-04-23
Lusf Easter in WaverlY House
Miss Miners Probationers Preparing to Move
Into More Commodious Quarters.

mo. I don't want that hat. don't want
an old-maidy hat. I'm going TO have the
very latest style
Sadie knew her rights as woman. its
true that according 10 the law she was
wayward girl. under the charge or the New
York Probation Association and an inmate
of Miss Maude f. Miners home for such
girls. at No 1e5 West l0th street. But wha'
of that9 Sadie had big black eyes. curly
black hair and feminine soul. ana she III
tended that when she started for church
on Easter Sunday along with the rest Oh
the girls at Waverly House she shou'o
have hat that suited her
I, was the Thursday before shat festival
ord The class in millinery which Miss
Lillian T. TAYLOR conducts once week az
Waverly House was hard at "orh' am
~ anv one thinks that being committed oS
,he courts as "wayward' subdues s"i
tastes in the millinery line-weH' tha' hllS
guided person ought to have seen 'ho
sroups leaving Waverly House Tor chuio o'l
ON Easter. For Sadie's dictum was tha' ol
oil the ejrls-none Of them wanted oiu
maidy' hats ,.,,,
1,heee are the last Easter hats that VIII
ever be trimmed at No l65 West lV'h S'ree''
but this doesn't mean that NaVerly iiouse
is going 10 be given up nor that the - Is
who are brought there won't have sprihs
hats in coming years. II means mat MISS
Miners work is growing and that the
homo will move this month 10 olSsoi
md moro convenient house. The present
quarters are only leased. The new house'
ubicb Is in West 10th street also. but near
or Sixth avenue. and so nearer JeheISWoii W
uarke, court, is to be purchased. s-''o''
being the price. 49,
.tIoy did YOU raise the money! the
rr,bune renorter asked Miss Miner.
.1, isn't raised yet-that is. not mucn Oh
4. pu, we'll have it by the end of April
ehe said with cheerful conildthc an
Judging by what she has already zone "''''
no capital, but large amount OF deteiiil
nation. il seems likely that she VIII Nv
what she says. On faith and the know
edge she had gained as a probauoh oHiOei
she rented the house at No. 100 west lV'''
street and brought the work to us present
mitch. and faith and knowledge are sun on
the lob Besides. there is some money III
the bank toward the new house-SiV''
And several people have promised money
cond,tionallv. Mortimer Schin will give
r. 800 if the whole amount is raised by May
/. and Mrs Andrew Carnegie. Henry Phipps
and Felix Warburg 500 each, dependent on
the same 'ff" Miss Alice Lewisohn has
promised $50
Really aside from the condiuonai
pledges we've only $4,000 10 set Miss
Miner said. And that's easy. though peo-
pie aren't so ready TO give for an object
like this as they are to help children. The
thought of children in want or danger ap-
peals 10 everybody-yet, after all, many of
the girls who come here are nothing but
children. Young girls Of fifteen or sixteen
many OF them are. who get into trouble be-
cause their homes are 50 cneeress and
they have 10 work so hard, and they go TO
a moving picture show or a dance hall IN
search OF little amusement. and the men
who make their living from vice, and who
haunt these places in search of just such
victims. get hold of them. These are the
girls who work in shops and factories for
g. 81 or s. a week-laid of during the dull
season a that And as one young girl who
was arrested on the street and referred
here by the court said TO me. You can't
live on s. a week. l didn't have enough