Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-09

said. because ones methods vary ac-
cording to the individual, but in es-
sence it's a case of making my will
triumph over the mans will. And
| I've got to win-got to win every
time, because if I failed to dominate
| man, failed only once, it would be
all over his ship the next day and all
over the other ships in port that So
andSo got away from Miss Fisher,
| and that's thing I can't afford to
have said. These boys have got to
know that they must obey me.
But please understand this: I never
use force. I could If liked, for al
| though I am little am strong, but
prefer persuasive methods. My
usual way with a man who has had
| too much to drink is to try to divert
his attention from the quest of more
| drink I do that not by talking to
him, but by making him talk to me
about something that interests him.
and before he knows It he is coming
| along quite contentedly.
1.-The men often complain" she
| added with a smile, that am worse
than the police. The hobbies"
| they say, wait till we do something
before they pinch us. You don't
! That reminds me-" she went on.
| that I want to say how much I owe
! to the cooperation of the Liverpool
| police. Never. if they can avoid it.
| do they arrest one of our sailors.
| Whenever it is possible they pass the
I x,ord +o NM tbot Sop,a IF INV poen' a re
! in a certain place and need me to look
after them, and in some cases. when
| men are actually drunk, the police,
instead of arresting them, will put
them into a taxi and tell the driver to
| find me. Sometimes when 1 have
taken a man in charge and we pass
a policeman, my captive will shout.
Bobby, take Miss Fisher away from
me! But the hobby only smiles.
unNLY the other night boy who
" was the worse for drink and
whom I was trying to get off the
| streets said to me, You can't take
| me, nor six like YOU But I'm your
| mother I said. Hadn't you better
! let me take care of your He then
| saw my Interference in a different
light and came willingly. You see.
all our men call me Mother and
am known thus even to fol- eigners on
our ships who can speak hardly any
| English. One of these, an Italian,
recently, was taken in charge by a
Liverpool bobby who intended to
| bring him to me.
"'You go away the policeman told
me the boy said to him. Me not want
| you. Me want Miss Fisher, American
mother
! ct walk straight into public
| houses" Mother Fisher told me.
IF 1 see a man in one of them who
| already has had as much as is good
for him, I tell the publican he must
have no more, and he gets no more.
| IF he goes on to another pub, I go
there, too, and warn the propieter that
the man must not be served. It is up
to me, too, to warn our men against
the men who live on the earnings OF
the women on the street and who try
to chum up with our sailors in fur
therance of their own ends. 1t is
part of my business to know who
these men are. and when I see one
of them walk up to one of our men
1 walk UP, too, and warn the man
against him. Because I do things like
fthis and also take men away from
girls, I am. I suppose, the most gen.
orally hated person in Liverpool
But naturally. If one is to be of any
use. one must mako enemies"
| 'what mystifies me-" I said. "is
that you haven't been murdered Iona
ago. Hasn't any one tried to do you
IMP
NO" was the reply, mot that
know of. have been tnrea.~.
times. without number - threatened
with libel suits and with persona
violence by the men and women
prevent from earning their. liveli.
/. hood. But men Of this type, and
| women, too, are usually towards al
heart. I say to all of them, Go as
far as you like but up to now they
haven't thought it wise to go any
further"
| At this point remarked to Miss
] Fisher that I had heard her boys