Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-05-21
MAJOR MARY BALE
BY Mrs: II. A. Coleman

charge than during any previous term
of TIE Court"
ITO 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 I'M
derstanding between parents and chill
dren. Bad habits or questionable ac-
quaintances, and certain types of pub
lie dance halls prOduce-in many
young girls 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
go wrong are from the country and
distant towns, and have no family ties
here. They live in the ordinary board
ing houses where their associations be-
tween young men and women has no
supervision whatever. This is one of
the reasons, as preventive measure,
why we are so anxious to establish in
Baltimore a Boarding Home for young
women, at 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
is shown by the reports from our
Rescue Homes and Hospitals.
Are there so many who apply to
the Salvation Army?"
Il should say SOL" exclaimed the
Major, emphatically.
More than a thousand Legitimate
babies are born every year in our hos
pitfalls. In some cases the mothers are
wholly innocent Of wrong doing as was
true Of Margaret-no we never tell
their Margaret was a most at.
tractive girl of nineteen, Of good fam
lily. and the whole support of an allina
mother and two small sisters of ten
and twelve years of age. She was a
clever artist and was making a good
living as an art designer. For several
years she had been engaged to a young
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
garet's mother developed an anti.
pathy to the young man because she
felt that he could not, and would not
he a,hIa RI cupnort thann all He t0ok
the attitude that the mother was able
to do something for herself. His own
mother had been selfsupportine
through many years of widowhood
Arguments finally brought on a quar-
rel The wedding was postponed, The
man demanded that Margaret set q
time when she would leave her mother
and go with him to 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
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 sympathized with her
problems. He asked her to dine with
him one evening and though indiffer
ent to the idea, her mother urged her
to 60 She was brought home about
midnight by an elderly woman who
told the mother she had tainted at the
cafe and had been i'll in her care all
evening, and that the gentleman had
insisted that she see the girl home.
The mother was pleased and f1attered,
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. How
ever, when weeks had passed and the
man was not seen or heard from again,
the mothers suspicious were aroused
] and when later confirmed by the girls