The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1921-05-27
MAJOR MARY BALE
BY Mrs. +. q. Coleman

charge than during any previous term
OF the Court"
TO whai 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 I'm
derstandIng between parents and chill.
dren Bad habits or questionable &C.
quainlances, aud certain types OF pub.
lie dance balls produce in many
young girls a wild disregard Of an re.
s,raint Many thinking il makes them
appear sophisticated and independent
70 drink and use drugs. and naturally
they are headed sooner or later for
disaster Many times The girls Who
30 wrong are from the country and
distant towns. and have no family ties
here They live IN The ordinary board.
Ing houses whore their associations be.
tween young mua and women has no
supervision whatever This - one o.
the reasons. as a preventive measure
why we are SO anxious 20 establish IN
Baltimore A boarding Home for young
women al rates low enough TO provide
the factory and shop girls with clean.
comfortable and attractive rooms. well
balanced meals and home comforts
The great need for such protection
~ shown by the reports from cur
Rescue Homes and Hospitals.
Are there so many who apply to
the Salvation ARMY"
q should say SOL" exclaimed the
Major cmphatically
More than a thousand illiRltimate
babies are born every year In our hos.
pitala' In some cases the mothers are
wholly innocent OF wrong doing MS was
true Of MAfgaret-no We never tell
their names Margaret was a most at
tractiye girl OF nineteen. Of good fam
ily and the whole support Of an ailinr
mother and two small sisters of ten
and twelve years OF age, She was a
clever artist and vas making a good
living az an art designer For several
years she had been engaged TO a youus
student who was working his way
through college. They were to be mar
ried upon his graduation. As the time
of the wedding approached Mar
garets mother developed an anti
pathy 20 the young man because she
felt that be could not, and would not
be able 10 support them all He took
the attitude that The mother was able
to do something for herself His own
mother had been selfsupportlne
through many years Of wldowhood
Arguments finally brought on a quar-
rel The wedding was postponed The
man demanded that Margaret set
time when she would leave her mother
and 90 with him to a distant city
where he was TO work The result was
an absolute break between them, for
Margaret saw that her mother was
equally determined to make her choose
between them, and though Margaret
grieyed 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 sympathlzed with her
problems, He asked her to dine with
him one evening and though indiffer
ent to the idea her mother urged hei
to 20. She was brought hoino about
midnight by an elderly woman who
told the mother she had tainted at the
cafe and had been III in her care all
evening, and that the gentleman had
Insisted that she see the girl home.
The mother was pleased and battered,
rather than alarmed even when Mar,
garet could tell nothing OF her eve.
ning's experience except that she be.
came very giddy and tainted. Now.
ever, when weeks had pasted and the
man was not seen or heard from again,
the mothers suspicious were aroused
and when later confirmed by the girls