The Washington times., 1915-06-26
Charity Street Sale Planned
in Aid of Camps For
Babies From Families Suf-
fering From Economic Dis
aSter.
Mrs. Edwin Seton Defends
Charity System of Social
Service Through Personal
Appeals on the Street.
By FLORENCE E. YODER.

IVY ANTEp' BY Mrs. Edwin
\N/ Scfton. 200 girls over
" sixteen years of age. as
volunteer workers for
July Is and 16. Apply 140s II
street northwest.
This appeal Is sent out by the
chairman of the Summer outing
Days Committee. In order to gain
recruits for the selling of-well,
what will he sold will be told
later on-the funds to be given to
the three summer camps, Good
viii, Pleasant. and the Raby
Farm Hospital. for white children,
colored children. and babies, re-
srectively.
These three summer outing sta
tions. according to Mrs. Seton,
who is a social service worker OF
wide experience and many years
training, do more than any other
institution for the life of those In
the city who need help. and who in
time Of any financial or economic
disaster bear the brunt OF the
burden Of poverty.
That the summer outing camp
Of this summer II properly con-
Quoted, will save money and al
leviate suffering in the coming
winter. not to mention the more
lasting results of an improved
6ivfduals helped, Is her conten-
Girls over sixteen, she has found.
have perfect right and are abso-
lutely safe TO sell wares on the
street for the sake OF charity.
80 MI
the eating said Mrs. Seton.
when asked Immediately concern
in.. the propricty Of selling wares
on the street, and when l allow
my own daughter to sell for char
ity | think that ] can state an
opinion without being hypocrlticai.
Selling For Charity.
I have two points to make. one
is that 1t is proper for girls to
sell wares on the street for the
sake of charity, while the other Is
to show the people Of Washington
how fortunate they are and how
they can make themselves more
forfunate in the matter of social
welfare.
at has become the custom. espe-
cially during the last year or So
to engage young girls In the ousi-
ness Of selling on the street TOT
charity. While some wise mothers.
who are willing that the tralnins
which they have given their girls
be tested make no objection to this
custom, others are strong in their
denunciation OF any duty or pas
time which brings the young girl
in contact with the street life ana
which lays her liable to insult.
But that Is Just where these
insulted half as often as one thinks
in the first place. and in the sec
ond, why should they be forced OH
the street, denied freedom OF move
ment, just because of the attitude
of few men?
"On the other hand. II Is the ele-
ment which does the insulting
which should be forced off the
streets. After all It Is a mere ques-
tion of bullying, and the sooner
men find out that women cannot De
insulted, there will be no more at
tempts at 1t.
Demand Fair Treatment.
an eight years of social work
have found that the ordinary.
rough, so-called coarse man. Is the
last one to offer an insult to the
Young person. 1t Is the man-aoout-
town, the man who poses rs being
we'll bred who offers the little in
suits which fond mothers deplore.
Instead of succumbing to the an
noyance Of such men after the habit
of the girl of a century ago. the girl
of today should stand her ground
and demand fair and decent treat
ment in public as we'll as in the con-
fines Of her own home.
IF she demands it she will get
II. And II in her eye Is the light OF
a flirt, the fear of. or the wish that
she be spoken to. she will get that
too. The girl who is insulted' fire.
ouently is, In the majority OF cases.
TO blame for the occurrence. The girl
who does not see an insult cannot
take one. After all. only our equals
or our betters can insult us. l want
no girl to apply to me as volun-
teer who sees or expects insults.
'As for the common sense behind
the upkeep of the summer camps. In
America there are several classes OF
people. Upper class lower upper
class, middle class, lower middle
class, and poor.
These different classes are con-
tinually changing. In one genera
ton the family of the lower middle
class can go up a step, or the family