Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-05-19
MAJOR MARY BALE
Ely Mrs. X. a. Coleman

charge than during any previous term
Of the Court
TO what do YOU attribute this con
dition?"
The trouble is usually with the
home life-either too lax-or too strict
and no real bond of sympathy or an
derstanding between parents and chill
oren. Bad habits or questionable &C
Quantanccs, and certain types of pub
lie dance halls produce-in many
young girls a wild disregard of all re-
straint Many thinking it makes them
appear sophisticated and Independent
to drink and use drugs. and naturally
they are headed sooner or later for
disaster. Many times The girls who
so wrong are from the country and
distant towns. aud have no family ties
here. They live i'm the ordinary board
ing houses where their associations be
tween young men and women has nc
supervision whatever. This is one OF
the reasons, as q preventive measure
why we are so anxious to establish ir
Baltimore a Boarding Home for young
women, al rates low enough TO provide
the factory and shop girls with clean
comfortable and attractive rooms, vel
balanced meals and home comforts.
The great need for Such protection
IS shown by the reports from oul
Rescue Homes and Hospitals.
Are there so many who apply tc
the Salvation Army? ?"
q should say SOL" exclaimed the
Major, emphatically.
More than a thousand illisitimate
babies are born every year in our hos
pitals. In some cases the mothers are
wholly innocent OF wrong doing as was
true Of Margaret-no we never tel
their -Margaret was a most at
tractive girl OF nineteen. OF good fam
sly. and the whole support of an ailine
mother and two small sisters of ter
and twelve years Of age She was a
clover artist and was making a good
living as an art DESIGNER. For several
years she had been engaged to young
student VINO was working his way
through college They We're to be mar
r;ed upon his graduation. rs the time
of the wedding anproached-Ma
garet's mother developed an anti
pathy to tie young man because she
felt that he could not, and would not
be able to support them all He tool
the attitude taat the mother was able
20 6o netting fer herself His own
mother had been self-supportina
through many years of widowhood
Arguments finally brought. on a quar-
rel The wedding was postponed. The
man demanded that Margaret Sc. 3
time when she would leave her mother
and 90 with him to q distant city
where he was TO work. The result was
an absolute break between them, for
Margaret saw that her mother was
equally determined 20 make her choose
between them, and though Margaret
grieved deeply for the man she loved
she would not leave her mother.
Some months after she met an older
man. prosperous in business. who
seemed Interested in her. stimulated
her work. and symnathized with her
problems, He asked her to dine with
him one evening aud though indiffer
ent 20 the idea. her mother urged her
10 20 she was brought home about
midnight by en- elderly woman who
told the motaer she had tainted at the
cafe and had been i'll in her care all
evening. end thai the gentleman had
insisted that she see the girl home.
The mc.her vas Pleased and fattered,
rather than alaymed. even VIXEN Mar
ravct could tell nothing OF her eve
ning's experience except that she be.
came very giG6y and tainted. How.
ever. when weeks had passed and the
nan was not saen or heard from again.
the mothers suspiciens were aroused
and when lster coAag2,ea by the girls