The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-27

seemed best to compel the child to be
supported, but in no way has the
home been allowed to be used as a
lying-in hospital or q baby farm,
although many times there would have
been no Lack Of one to be had for
the care Of the individual case, if it
were possible to hide here, and the
girl go away with no moral response
bility for her child. The average stay
Of the girls in the home has been six
months. T~hirty-One cases Of actual
charity; Is have been in a position to
pay something toward their expenses,
IS county cases have been cared for.
The question Is often asked, how
EAR you keep in touch with the girls
after they leave your This is no hard
ship, for the girl who leaves the home
with a feeling that she has been help
ed, sees no reason why she should not
let us know OF her whereabouts. OF
the seventy eight new girls who have
come to us, we are in touch with sixty
four, who are making good, supporting
themselves and their children in many
cases. Our hearts r cheered when
we get such messages as the following
from a girl who las been cared for; in
a little note expressing her apprecia-
ton Of what was done for her, she
sayS:
while In the Home six months 7
stayed,
Christ tells me to tell you Of the won
derful care
That I received from Him, and the
Home while there,
When no one else in the world did
care"
This is only one Of many express
sions that we have from those who
have gone out from us. Cases are
numerous that we might quote. Let
us look at the girl who has fallen into
the Inc Of the law because she was
unWise and 1ndiscreet. Through good
women who were interested in her,
she fell into u hands, remained with
us a year, went out able to support
herself and child. The first O
that she earned her thought was to do
something for the Home that had
sheltered and cared for her in her hour
OF distress and trial, asking rs to &C
cept SO of her hard-earned wages as
a small gift to help some other girl.
She was only earning SIS per week. and
easy task. But h says: Where
would I have been, and what would
have become Of me, If the Home had
not taken me in?"
Shelter has been given to any num-
Der of cases, girls have come to us
from other states who have needed to
get to their homes: they have had no
AAAOth~J OA&A IN ASAANo N1SIAo SCI NSO
per capita cost S cents and Z mills, to-
tai number Of meals served during the
year 39,577.
Employment has been found for
twenty girls, nineteen homes have
been found for mothers with their chill
dren. Fifteen girls have returned to
the Home for a visit, when out Of work
temporarily they have felt that this
was home, and many times the only
place they could call home. Eight
girls were transferred to the cottage.
three to the reform school, one to the
county hospital, one to the Minnesota
authorities, one to the children's home,
three Of whom. were referred back to
the court, thus the transfer to the re-
form school. One was returned to her
own home.
The girls of the juvenile court com .
mitted to us by the court are given an
opportunity to make good; If they do
not care to embrace it. they are then
committed to the reform school. Our
work is done without locked doors, and
a girl placed On her honor, and in only
four cases have We been disappointed
when We have given the girls privi-
leges.
There has been one case of white
slavery, sent to us by the United
States court. We regret to say that
she was a willing victim. One case Of
morphine, whisky n cocaine. Car
you picture a girl Of Fl. married at the
age of IL years. cared for the little one
that came to her when she wa 10
deserted and divorced at the age Of IA
thrown out into the world to care fol
herself and child. Married again ir
a few months to a man much older
han herself. Finally a double
tragedy. A sister taking the life OF
her husband and herself, and agar
the girl left alone. At the age OF
16 came into the city Of Fargo and
was persuaded to enter a house of Ill.
fame, where she learned to s NOR.
phine, and piled her trade between
Fargo and Moorhead for several years
Then when the officers found her out
moved to other parts, and became q
iend and would resort to almost an
end to secure drugs. cocaine AND
whisky. Could you have seen her as
she was brought to u.s., a fine looking
well preserved. young woman of p, in
spite Of her dissipation, she had still
retained her youth and good looks
which had been the means Of he,
downfall. Pleading with me to helr
her to overcome this terrible habit
and again an appeal to those WIFI
were interested in human kind and il
was made possible for her to receive
treatment, and then a search was
made for her friends, her mother was
found, and if you could see the letters
when she was restored to her home
and mother, there is no one but would
feel that If the home had cared for nc
one else during the year, that this one
case has been more than worth while
She has found her Savior, rescued
from a life of sin, and is now assist
ing her father, who had not heard