The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-12-09
BAD GIRLS TURN
GOOD GIRLS FROM
THE RIGHT PATH
Magistrate Herbert Warns Par
ents to Watch Chums of
Their Daughters.
THEIR WORST DANGER.
Conditions Revealed by Cases
h the Woman's Night
Court.
THEIR WORST DANGER.

WAsA you blame modsrn-day social
asD0tSens for the social evil you libel
00n6rSds Of thousands Of good women"
~ WAS the comment to-day Of Mag
l0esaes Henry W. Herbert, who presidss
~ ne woman's Night Court. on the
ssvsiausas made before the State Fac
W. Investigating Commission in con-
session With the long hours Of work for
women and children in New York and
- s0sot Il Aas upon their morals.
90 Into any factory. any DEPARTMENT
soerAs said the Magistrate "FoA every
~ woe has straysd you will nnd
o0Arsds who are straight and clean.
vAo have no thought of being anything
~ moral and who are happy In the
seaAsatien that &hsy are good women"
Fer four ysars Magistrate Herbert has
ossadsd on the bench in the woman's
NloAe Court He has seen unfortun ! Q
women sad girls 20 by him in an unsnd-
~ stream. b has passed In judgment
on the weeping girl. caught after her
~ offsmss. and the hardened woman Of
- underworld who takss each arrest
- an incidsnt--nothtns more than a
sg1sf preliminary 70 . months sojourn
= TIE vorkhouss
senator WaSnsr's commission. Magis-
tra<s Herbert dsplorsd the long hours
women and children were allowed 10
work in New York. He expressly abb
horrepce At . system which permitted
mere babies to toll almost every minute
Of their waking time In dirty and III.
ventilated tenement rooms - robbinp
than of all play-time and running thei'
health a. we'll A. endangerinG the health
Of the consumers OF the goods they
helped to MANUFACTURES isiii
CONDITIONS NOT ALWAYS Re.
sPoNsIBLE.
But the social evil cannot be blamed
on these conditions" he protest d
Every time a young girl comes before
me-a first ofender-I make . mighty
effort to discover the cause Of her fall
l delve particularly into her social con.
dlton. I strive to discover II II 10 her
environments that are responsible
THE verdict Of my experience Is
No.
The other night two girls were be-
fore me. one after the other. BY a
strange coincidence both were nrst Of
fenders-sach had been arrested. Aylthin
. week after her misfortune. For IL
lustration's sake. let them be Mary
Smith and Bessie Brown. Mary Smith
worried In y candy factory and received
= Q week; Bsssis Brown was employed
In Q downtown ofhos and received sl2 a
week.
Mary Smiths mother brought home
work from an embroidery contractor,
and the whole family worked on It. that
the weekly income might be made sui
doisnt to care for the mother. Mary anu
hvs smaller children. Mary .got W
every morning at Q o'clock, she worked
hard all day. and 4 was In the evening
before she was home again. Then.
otter supper. she did embroidery until
n sften unul midnight. The mex
morning she was tired before she started
to work.
The girl rebelied. She saw Other
e:rls Of the neighborhood having good
rrms--at least that u what they called
St-shs saw them with silk stockings
pestty shoes. willow plumes on large.
Otylish-Appsaring hats. She saw on
them ali for which she craved. One
Aay shs Questioned one Of these girls
che demanded TO know how she cou
have these things which Mary was de-
MED. though both families seemed in
similar circumstances. and learned the
answer.
Tho result had brought Mary Smith
. the Night Court
ANOTHER CASE DIFFERENT BUT
LIKE THE FIRST.
but there was Bessie Brown. VIVA,
II hsrf She was getting 81 week,
didn't have to get TO her employer
efl1cs until . and generally was home
BY & Her father. too. had a good JOB
he made enough TO take care OF hil
eamRy-thers was no night work al