Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-11-04


tute because she was inadeQuately
looked after when illegitimately preg
nant, and had to earn her living as
best she could, possibly you are to be
blamed as we'll as pitied, when your
son dies of locomotor- ataxia after five
or ten years of insanity. Then again.
it may be that somebody else's son,
having previously consorted with thu
same or similar prostitute, will mar
ry your daughter-and she will have
surgical operations instead OF chill
dren." Strong writing, t. : tile book
let Was She From Your Home Town"
But it seems to offer some pretty val
i'd reasons why the public should be
Interested in the proposed Home and
Hospital for which the Florence Crit
tenton League of Compassion is now
just launching a Building Fund Cam
paign.
Inc estimated cost OF the kind OF
plant the society desires TO establish
four buildings to care for the differ
ent types of cases, which shall be
situated in a suburb not too far from
The city to have easy access to the
Daot medical service and 10 the courts
IS ABOUT 100000, tO1 drd which some
Too,yv. mas ALREADY been INSCRIBED.
nC nt9u IS clear. For many years
,nls Organization iias made special
stuuy VI street girls. and they ar
lU.A..ng out that two thousand illegit-
iH-ale children are porn each year in
Massachusetts and that about eight
per cent, of these unmarried mothers
AVE tenereal disease. AT present
there is 10 agency to care for these
- g. accomnULation, with grounds
which AFFORD room for t"osh = ana
eX,r-lse, and with an adequate medi.
cal 5t... The F,C &c Crittartol
League claims that it has as assets
which should cause it to be entrusted
vain LAls ga uuty % = staf, both
ooclu. ana medical, now weu-grOunueu
II oApeueAce 10 WON Out IN new and
.-,- 10. unmarried mothers and all
H..l.ais psit4n>nL 80 the subject Cd d
r--slueAv Guu E3atd who, with the
..-., .--.o,u IL CLo ,Itdi ara 1t .nsuI-
.-casslly vi tu.s JoD, and g. an
J..Ual1QtIon firmly Convinced of the
.a-.l.,..auuo Vi e4uCatMg New Eng
iGAD IL tbs L4a..er OF tue unmarried
o.,..ln VINO IS d sJge..del OF dlseas6
|o,4u lor cue care OF Unmarried moth
ars is therefore what they are now re-
solved 10 build. Ii viii be
acme on .ne cottage plan, VIA ade-
4Uate hospital facilities, Baldlns IN
which the women may WORK TO keep
themselves IA PHYSICAL anu mental
meath, and il Will nave one building
5esreSatCu tUr Lne trea ument of vene-
real cases.
The absolute necessity lot suGn an
Institution mas been brought out by
lut bsCrOl WORK done Oh the COmmon
.0T d nInDar Of years now. IAtterly
cas- WORK haB been under the super-
VISION OF the United States luterde-
pdt.neAtaI social Hygiene Board, the
Florence Crttenton League assisting
ny reg ulariy supplying the salaries of
one or more WoTAerS. The Federal Gov
ernmenL relation to the matter is a
result OF the war and OF the necessity
which mas been felt Of protecting the
health OF soldiers and sailors. But
ne Florence Crittenton League was
doing preventive work through its
street matrOn, MIS-. Thomas H. Tyler.
long before there was any war.
In the survey OF July II, 1913 may
be found an interesting description OF
Mrs. Tyler's work together with some
stories about the various girls which
she was wont to take home with her,
quietly and unobtrusiVely, to the
apartment in the Fenway for which
tie Florence CriLtenton League paid
the rent, when she found them ON the
verge of a wrong step in the parks, at
the theatres and cafes. Mrs. Tyler
had no distinctive dress or badge and
did her work by sheer force of friend
Illness. Her entire formula of service
was embraced in the phrase "the girl
saw ] was her friend"