The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-30

1 city. In all the world there are homes that need the proper care, and a pity
 some of our well to do are among the in l fected. We, many of us, are interested
 in building institutions and furnishing
 homes for the less fortunate and leav- ing our own human structures to exte-
 ror decoration. while the inner man de-
 cays and morally degenerates. G-S chill | dren of all classes are needing training.
 Our schools give them physics and meta l physics, and we often leave the balance
 to chance If they have pleasure we seem satisfied. There's the harm. We should inculcate in their minds as they begin to grow, duty and the exercise of all the faculties that go toward building a practical, useful life. We give them delse art because it is graceful exer- else. We should train them to use the broom because it is home instrument.
 Home should be emphasized, it's care and treatment. Realizing that the city | is one big field, dotted with a civilized people, many busy. too busy to appre- l ciate the importance of the early care 1 as the Children's Aid society," is active 1 in the interest of better boys and girls for Birmingham, not to be officous, but to cooperate with the home in bringing about such conditions that will build better men and better women.
 There has been many convict made because of ignorance In correcting evil harshness in dealing with 1t in it's in- fancy and rebulSe to the helpless home. Much gnod is being accomplished by personal contact with the homes of our wayward children.
 A friendly aeduaintance with the par ents, a knowledge of the environments. and heart to heart talks have proven of vast assistance to the organization hav- ing in charge this phase of philanthropic work.
 Tho -ervices of one of our own girls, Miss Mary Rumph. who has had training and is the natural inheritor of the love | of human kind. have been employed to | look into the conditions of our children, | to reach their needs and hearts and bring such influences to bear as are most needed for their welfare. When love fails to respond and the cause is so grave and all hope of permanent restoration I has been impossible. the child is removed | to a different atmosphere and begins life anew. Like withered plant it is weak ened by discontent at first, but fresh ! air pure atmosphere restores the bloom and in the new homes are many happy 1 boys and girls clinging to the adopted parent love, and grateful for the oppor- l tunities.
 A permanent home for the juvenile court has been established, with super i intendent matron and friendly visitor i in charge where the offenders and un- | fortunates are cared for by tender hands until permanent arrangements are made. When one realizes that truly what is often considered nice Is but a virtue. home Is made happier with the | knowledge of the safety of their loved ones The very fact that every mother has the best interests of her offspring at i heart, even though depressed and op- pressed with care. makes her responsive to all interested visitors
 The city is growing so rapidly spread | ing over so much territory, and thus the influx of a varied element makes the l fact important that 1t behooves every broad minded citizen to look well into any phase of life that effects the love of her people; here are planted the seed of 1 our future lawmakers, and here the crop of the vast number of our mothers of tomorrow are being reared. Tn these homes are the large families being l raised Some day the ballot will be in their hands. a day when the majority
 rules-and the scheming politics will have been outlawed on a pure democratic platform
 see no greater charge to keep than
 the homes of our people-rearing the youth to it's highest sense of honor and duty. and with the Chlidren's Aid
 society to further this interest. indorsed
 by the club women. stimulated by their cooperation, sustained by the public
 generosity, the result of Tag Day each | year, there Is every reason to believe
 that our unfortunate youth will respond
 to the tutorage of general public h. 1 terest.
 The homes need more sunshine. Miss
 Rumph Is carrying that blessing Let
 every woman stand ready to spread the
 rays of hope and cheerfulness by giving themselves more to the missionary work
 of our own city. Money Is needed-it is
 not that we are asking-it is self person 1 laty in the life of our struggling moth ers of Birmingham. Example is a splen- did teacher. Truth should be the stand
 ard of every home. the whisper of every
 mother and the demand of every father
 When truth is made the foundation. hon.
 esty, all else is before you. We, women
 who have federated ourselves as club
 women of Alabama. have assumed the
 attitude of leaders in home and it's inn provement-a very responsible position We should be examples-our homes ara
 the models--the future citizenship of our state is in our hands-my children, your
 children, all Alabama children, are de-
 pendent upon your legislation. Are we
 to go on, let them grow at will among
 the thorns and thistles or are we going
 to clean the fields, raise better crops, de-
 mand better morals? Stand for the fli-
 ture manhood and womanhood of the
 south Your sons wife is being raised today. my daughters husband. Can't we all pull together for better home ! making? The babies of today are tomor- TOW men and women Throw off the Paris gown-make a standard of good ! morals. Society is not intended to bring out this evil. but to develop the good When we raise our children in sphere ! of dleness, of pleasure and gossip we { might just as we'll call them to us three times q day and administer to them a vile tonic to eat out the last germ of their life-a pure mind.
 Evil communications do corrupt good
 morals. We must tear down the menace
 to morals by a forcefu demand and ex.
 ample. The child is a piece of clay ir
 our hands, We love him and caress, feed
 him, clothe him. send him to school These are routine necessities; have you taught his life means more than eat
 drink and he merry That the hands
 are agents of the brain. to be kept busy
 and useful? Do you remind him that 7 ..f.. s1