Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-02-10
AAKE CORNERS GOOD
and GIVE TOWN CREDIT
IRIS Barrett Talks on Social Evil
at Lucky Bag Inn"
SOMETHING WRONG WITH HOME.
When The Home Fails To Attract
Den't Blame Streets But Bad
Street Manners.

Last evening party OF represen-
tative men and wome gathered at the
Lucky Bag Inn TO hear Mrs. Kate
Waller Barrett, National President
II the Florence Crittenton Mission
give her third talk of the day.
Mrs. Barrett reviewed the organi-
zation of the work by Mr.. Crittenton.
Who founded the Home for fallen
girls tweuty-nine years ago, giving of
mis- large means to the work, in mem
Try OF his little daughter, whom be
dearly loved. The amount Of money
given by Mr.. Crittenton was $40, 900,
ind the Home has sheltered 20, 600
girls, 20 per cent. ot whom have been
Guided 10 the right path and have
made good" after leaving the Home.
Mrs. Barrett said seventy-eigbt
Florence Crittenton homes have been
established throughout the United
Slater, and there Is a chain OF circles
For fifteen years the United States
Government has been aiding the sup
port Of these homes. Mrs. Barrett
defined black and white slavery. She
spoke Of commercialized vice, and the
selling of women as bag of potatoes.
She said these girls should be given
chance to do what is right. There
hould be more sympathy and great
r. bond of humanity between the
fallen women and the rest of the
world.
These girls know that public senti-
nent is not behindBs IN. The world
looks kindly upon "fallen man."
but fallen woman is scarcely fit for
ones cook or laundress. We think,
most of us, said Mrs. Barrett, that
these women ore not good enough to
scrub our floors. When we do by our
own we give alipathic doses, when
we do Tor others, we give homeo-
pathic doses. We do not look upon
these things in a practical, common
sense way, said Mrs. Barrett. We do
not begin soon enough with our pre-
ventive work. There would b. nc
girls ia the Florerce Crittenton Home
il the preventive methods had been
used soon enough. No institution,
De il Church, State or Home, is good
snough until IL be examined into to
make 1t more efiicacious.
Mrs. Barrett spoke of the social
evil, aud said there are good many
things to learn about it. Why the
boy and girl have gone wrong is a
study, and each individual and specific
case sho lid be looked into. The sub
iect, she said, is as old az the world,
and is not solvable in a week. Illus
trative Of a story she told with a
striking moral, Mrs. Barrett said our
bodies do betray our souls, and our
sins are marked upon our faces. A
fallen girl has that always against
her. IL she steals, she is a thief,
AND fallen girl Mrs. Bar
rett urged the safeguard of children.
She advocated police women, and said
along this line there are many things
women can do better than men. A
better word,she said for police wome n
is police matron.
Reviewing the subject under cor
alteration, she said it took us two
hundred years TO learn drawing room
manners; then we lost the drawing
room. We cannot expect TO learn
street and park manners in two
weeks. She said she is not in SYM
patty with keeping children off the
streets. What's the use of paying
taxes and making our streets beauti-
tai, and then keep the children from
1siQg theml IF the HOME has failed
to do it's work, then some other thing
Is going to take the place of the
home. Even older people are getting
away from home ideals. What the n,
can we expect Of children?
She spoke of temptations from
without and within. In Arkansas
they have done much to improve the
growth OF cotton the past quarter of
a century, but nothing for humanity.
There mule is worth $500, man
$40. There is something wrong with
civilization where a mule is so
much NOR valuable than human life.
Tell me what corner a kid is stand
ing on, and / will tell you what kind
Of a kid he is. The men who permit
any corner to exist that is not the
right kind of corner are responsible
for che boys and girls who come from
that corner. Why not have svery
corner a credit to the town, said Mrs
Barrett. We, in our social life,
haven't sense enc ugh to take experi-
ence from the past when we know OF
this evil, said the speaker in closing.
After Mrs. Barret's remarks there
was general discussion.