Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-20
As ONE WOMAN SEES IT
A Heart UpIIfted by . Rescue Mission
House, . Maternity and Baby
Hospital and q Homo for
Little Children
by SARAH d. LOWRIE

and head directors over plunts and buildings,
through institntiona and eshibits ~ orrani.
cations. and I nm nlwnvs astonished at the
things thcv' chow u.,I eonaiiv astonisbed at
the things they left unshcwn.
more time ~ t. no ",m engine house md in the
storehouse md administ alton building, than
any woman cares 70. Head nurses, direc.
tresses and matrors lipocr indcfinitclv in the
laundries and kitchens, md show as their
great triumph the dining rooms set for the
If YOU are one Of marty YOU are gen.
orally corrnlled first in an Institution parlor
or reception room. than which there is moth.
ing more depressing on the face of this earth
---except the walls 81 the House of Correc-
tion near Holmcsbure, After the party has
arrived, to tho last straggler, the conven-
tional round of inspection begins. and from
start TO finish Won never get more than an
outside view ~ the inside life Of the place.
You could not saw. IL you we're about to be
shot for H. whether whnt yo,, are shown Is
what the persons living there really see or
completely.
think that the strangencss OF filing in
parties Of twenties through wards or bed.
rooms or kitchens or cellars or even engine
rooms a. though they we're picture galleries
Ia a benumbing process. You are always
commenting, never really feeling what the
place IL like Nothing goes on quite natu-
rally under so large and staring nn inspec-
marks like apologizng to those who belong
there for breaking into their routine with no
real reason save the very bald one that you
have come to look them over.
LIVERY now and then, however. there is a
T. rare director of a public institution who
has grown 10 cnre for It as a home rather
than value it ns nm institution, and that
somewhat unioua individual will actually
receive you as though he were your host and
nd
his aim being to make you feel at home. ne
will show yOu the real places that make it
home, not the machinery that makes it con-
venient or sanitary or educational. Under
real people who belong there. not 80 much
the persons who minister there az the per-
sons who call II home. And YOU come away
feeling TINT Won know the nIncp even though
you have never seen the laundry or in
spected the heating plnnt or praised the
head nurse for the wonderful order Of the
infirmarv closet.
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r WENT to one such homo the other dav---
/ or rather three such homes. for the Sal.
yation Army hns ont IN Vast pbilnIelnhia
on Lans,iowne nvennc, 5I4,. n rescue mis-.
sion bonse. n maternity ond habv hosnital
and n homo for littlc children chilled wv
House With, n stone.s throw of one nm.
other and ali IN tbe .,me hlocl,
On the rather rnuch drive ont there. for
the streeta we're In Ind conditinn tho Sal
yntion officer ond I talked of Tho Army md
tho yaricty of exnrrIsnccs be Ind hnd serv.
inV first in London. where he had been con.
vcrteJ and ioined rnre than thirty venrs
ago. then in Bclfast then in Chicooo then
jn Eoiifornin oni tbsr here lIo Sa;S !, ,vo.
nart ~ tba disc;nI;nn ~ tho armw Tint IN"
units in tho different countries and in the
Senorota citics Shnnd toln tha noinr I, of thn;r
srro,udineS ne ,nmcb S' "S .me hH''
tbnir nrtivitieS ond their waX. ~; nnnr"acS
to The ,ustoms ~ the immeii,t. neirhbnr.
hood And he said eacb of the rities in
wbici no bnd verveJ vcre 60 unIi,s MI tbe
make GOOD. ~ rhnnwe ii. tacti;s ~ win c,cb
n", ,SS.,tinn w I ~, ~ @ ~. ~, ,,iatro.In,, .H
tbnt ,itLnu,b o,i W." oit;e, haI roscma
homes Tho ono be ,,oS t,l,ina ,,o tn soo ,,cro
IN pbilo odo,nbio J,,forsd g.; nso,oroi ,n,rLad
whcn we arrived NJ rho home and wsra in.
,rndmccd 70 tha motron m,hnm ba collsd
com,nandont his nn,nion wa" "cconded NV
her. Her last billet. I think, had been
Chatham. England. a town very much alive
low TYNE Of piris and women wh, nttemnt
to nrcv unon arm md nav man r,thnr
rotbered they had different refncn nlncns for
these lower tynes of women Icre bowever
there is only one home.
II 10 an old Wrst Phllodclrhio nlos.sred
b,nso ,bnt wn. rs.d fnrmnrl. Co.., n scbanI
Il has I should thinl' room Tor n,,out 1V fnrtv
nersnns. two in a ronm With single ronms
for tho yorious ofIiccrs In ch.rpc md n v.rv
,Jeos iittIa bndron, and .,t,;na'',S., % ..S
fn. rho commondanr Wn ,nt fn ;, ,nnn
toItod the .onm""dont tho nn,,naI n..p !u't n
otber visitor md myself In tba enS, ut
,novnbsre the rommandon, fnrvnt , wns "n,
IN The Army and discussed tbingv Iitb ,ne
with now and then nm axnlanntorv wmr,i
from tho colonel Nv recollert inn 10 th,t ,b.,
commandont had been serving sevontenn
Years: about 1000 girls and women nasseI
tbrnn1h ber hands n year some 80 tho,n
,rsro norried most wero rot 'Tho' cn,na cnv,,a
there of their own free viii and theS could
ianve nt anv momenf Tber hod one thtmn
In co,nTnon howeycr el.a thcw diforoI ~
racn color religion and ose and reavor for
heinr ua they were. they wora MI aho,t w.
hecnmo ,nnthcrs. ' "'''' ~
y NEVER sow =, clno, , bonso fo, o,,o,
,n',I, I dia no NH ,'rar !, ''o,,in ...'
W, ~, ,ha dySollor. ,hn,a ~ s,, muo'm i.ss r'r;
~ tiftcen or siytcnn ,o m oldish hrondi,,n