The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-09-28
AS A WOMAN SEES 1T.
BY Rheta ChiIde DOPr.

three years, was deserted by her husband. She
had two children, baby Of year and a little
girl OF The baby she was able to place in
the home Of friend and the little girl she put
in an institution. She did not investigate the in
stituton, but, being very religious, cOntided her
child without question the sisters.
month went by before she was allowed to see
her child. No reason, just rules What the poor
woman saw when her child came into the room
made her burst into bitter weeping The n,tla
Sirl was chalk-white, emaciated, shrinking and
terrified.
She had not had full meal for month "One
piece Of bread they give YOU she whispered to
her mother For little mistake they make YOU
kneel on the with your arms held up-so If
your arms fall down from tired thew beat Won
with ruler"
There more of the story of which the above
is merely mild sample. 1t was told between sobs
as the two sat under painting of St. Joseph
bearing little child i'm his arms
The mother hurried back to the hotel where she
worked as chambermaid, and in her distraction
sought out the writer of these lines. The
did not know whether it possible to get her
child out of the institution-she did not know
American customs, and she spoNe little English.
She like a desperate animal.
Machinery was put into motion and the mother
got her child AS they left the place a
faced sister took the chds hand in hers and said:
Pray for me, Annie
She sincere Her whole time was taken
with religious exercises, and in fact the good
sisters had nothing to do with the material side
of the institution. That they left to hireIings
That liberated child ate until we forced her to
stop. She was not hungry, she was starved For
days afterwards a thought was gray and heavy
on my mind the thought that in New York, and
in every city in the country, hundreds Of thous-
ands of little children were immured in similar
dens and there way of getting them out.
Catholic, Protestant, Jew, philanthropist, social
worker, charity agent, in your divine pity for
helpless childhood, you find no better way Of
expressing that pity than by building huge insti-
tutions? And is your sense of duty satisfied when
you put the children within the walls and then go
away and forget their existence?-Pittsburg Post.
DELINQUENT GIRLS TO BE SENT TO ORLEANS
Especial to The Item.)
Shreveport, La, August 4--Following a hear
ing in the district court Thursday afternoon, Judge
John R. Land held that EVE Ivy aged IA, and
Georgia Hatcher, aged 49, white girls who were
found recently in house at Oil City with Charles
Harris when he arrested on a charge of en-
ucng them from LenZburg, Red River Parish to
the Caddo oil field town, delinquent children
because of improper domestic surroundings and
want OF parental care, control and training. The
court, at the instance of the probation officer a
Shreveport woman, ordered them placed in the
House of the Good Shepherd at New Orleans.
Thus Protestant girls 90 to popish slave
pens, right under our nose.
OUR GIRLS AND THEIR ENEMIES.
To The Commercial Appeal:
In my capacity parish priest I naturally
at times the repository of delicate and sc metimeS
of tragic condolences. Permit to tell to Mem
phis through your columns story of yesterday:
"A young girl OF my parish IN ner tender teens,
timid fawn and unsuspectng baby, re-
spends to the call of business on Main
Street, who is reported to her gentleman to do
some extra typewritng in his establishment. He
insults the child until she draws a stickpn and
flies, bewildered and amazed
l promptly called two ladies occupying each
public capacity that brings them in close touch
with young girls setting out to living as
stenOgraphers and otherwise and these ladies
inform me that such behavior on the part of men
who pass muster in the community as reputable,
and many of them married as this wretch is is not
uncommon.
And one of them especially said she hoped l
would do something about it, because she was