The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-20
From the Emporia CKan) Gazette

From the Emporia (Kan) Gazette.
r9HE regular weekly meeting or the
Amalgamated Order of Character
i Wreclxers of Emporia, NO w. ar
euated with the national society," was
,,a,a the other night with the president,
r.,.erv member was present, as is usual
i, tbiy enthusiastic body, and every mehl-
-. fnrnished an interesting part III the
programme. -
This is a representative poaS-tne '"os
representative, perhaps, of any orsaiiiAa-
tioo in town. Members of every woman
ol,h and every mans club belong TO IT,
M, ,.o,, think 1t was club for women
o,lvo No. indeed; some of its most aetiNe
workers are men, 60
,rhare are representatives of the state
Normal. of the College of Emporia' Oh tue
tfigb school and the city schools, OF the
doysns of Enporia business houses OIL
oaah of the churches and women's church
sec,eties the brotherhoods, the sunday
schools the Endeavor societies, the youis
von1en's organizations. All the lahioao
orders have members in this great pous'
many farmers and their wlves' anu 'ne
stocl.men and their families are valued
workers. The newspapers are represent
ed. too. and the members from these Oh
eoas are expected to furnish plenty OF aa-
vertising fsS the order
A. tho meeting one of the important
r,o+tars discussed was how to Keep going
the ugly talk that has almost oieu ou'
sbout a girl who was indisereet ana VIM
I, nNs
wasn't wise enough to keep her own
counsels She soon saw the error OF her
,.s ,nd has straightened up and prop
oblv would provide no further work Tor
t,,,s society did it not keep the talk
Going But depend upon the members
ror that, And If this girl ever Is apie
70 hold IN her head again, it won't De
then fault.
Then the society took up the case ol d
vonne couple and their first baby. Inc
parents are altogether Inexperienced anu
as the young man draws but smai SAL
a,v. they can't afford to keep heip' ana
they do the best they can under the .rs :
in.. circumstances. This the society con-
sidered a mighty poor do, and set 10
work TO start talk about the way the
moor little mother neglects her child.
"Whv. that baby-I know. because l
live next door-isnt bathed more than
once A week, and she doesn't feed 1t reg
ularly. 1t squalls every night 1or 'wo
hours or more. and / know the Only
thing on earth the matter with it is that II
is hungry. And actually'-here the
sneaker lowered her voice and spoke IN
herrified accents actually, that man
spanked that baby the other night. And
II not more than 6 months old There
ought to be law.
~ trv to do all l can for the mother, but
she's one of the smart kind that you
can't tell anything. When l was trying
to give her some advice about taxing
care of her baby, she said she didn't see
what I could know about bringing up
babies. seing that I'd never had any
81 NV own | told her I'd a whole lot
rather have none than to bring EN- into
the world to neglect EN-, and people hao
no business with babies who couldn't al
ford 10 hire help to take care of EN-, sc
| that the whole neighborhood wouldn't be
disturbed by the young ones yelling
NV remarks went home, l can tell you
| for | left her crying. and | told ner ina.
| \, spite of her mean talk, / would come
in again and advise her about the papy
She ought to cry-and when taihe'
to her for her own good, to be impuden
to met
| A man came next on the programme
and he gave juicy report of Whae IN
| said was the impending faiiure OF
| f,on,mercial street business man. Il talked
I, him the other night said this iaith
full worker. and invited his commence
but he as good as told me to attepd t'
my own business. l know what peopi'
are saying about him. and sat down ant
toid him, in spite Of his rebuff that n