Show V vt i ULD CRI a OF vr IN VM THE ahr IT ir hia SINNER all I 1 ask Is a chance chancey what Is the duty 0 of f society to the penitent who would TV lead new life T LOUIS frances bloom no longer rejoices in the appella tion of the meanest giri girl in III st louis seven weeks in the work house have cured her ot of a deal of what she calls her meanness she Is willing nay she Is eager to be good all that she desires now Is to get out ot of the workhouse it if he Is convinced of the honesty ot of her reformation refo mation judge earl kimmel the golden rule police judge of st louis may parole frances bloom oh I 1 will he be good when I 1 get out she said at the city hospital where she Is at present I 1 have had enough of being bad there Is nothing in being bad you just fight the world and yourself and you get tired of it when you are bad you are always in trouble life is hard first there are the police to fight then there are the judges then comes the workhouse the guards and prison discipline and all that I 1 tell you it Is enough to kill a man of steel let alone a woman to fight society and the agents which society employs to make you good frances bloom Is not quite 19 years old yet she has tour four years in the girls industrial school at Chilli chillicothe to her discredit she has been mar ried almost a year she has six months in the workhouse before her was charged with vagrancy it all came abbat when frances was arrested at sixteenth and market streets may 14 charged with vagrancy patrolman thies who made the ar rest says that frances pulled a hat pin on him and stabbed him through the arm frances says that it all came about through patrolman thies putting his arm around her head and hat when he took her to the patrol box to call the wagon he stuck the hatpin through his own arm she said I 1 admit that aft edwards I 1 bit and scratched him but that was no way io treat a lady now honest was it ita biow how would you like your own wife sweetheart etheart sister or daughter to be treated that waya way you shudder and a nd admit that it does not appeal to your idea af the courtesy due a lady of your family they put me in the lockup and next day took lock me before judge kirn kim mel there was my first streak of luck I 1 have been in hard luck ever since I 1 lost my father ten years ago but judge kimmel Is a nice man he gave me nine months in the work house I 1 felt like thanking him he did it so nicely I 1 liked it fine at the workhouse too mr white the superintendent Is true to his name he Is a white man he treats you as it if you were a human being not a dog they told me that once he was a policeman too I 1 cata can hardly believe it he treated me sim ply grand talked to me and mady me see that I 1 was a very foolish girl to act wildly they sent me to the hospital I 1 am getting well fast tells her LIf eStory in response to questions this wait waif of the world told the following story I 1 waa was born in chicago my father was a shoemaker he followed 1114 hi trade in various large and small cities I 1 have lived in new york and in small in ohio illinois and missouri where my father worked but for fit teen years I 1 have recognized st louis as my home ten teri years ago my father and moth er separated my mother married again I 1 guess I 1 gave her a lot of trou brou ble I 1 was wild but not a bad kid perhaps my stepfather did not like me in any event I 1 was sent to the girls industrial home at Chilli chillicothe I 1 was 14 at al that time that is one thing they do for you at Chilli chillicothe they give you a good education I 1 had gone to work at 10 years old in a factory I 1 never had any Y education at home but I 1 ae learned arned to read and to write and to sew and to cook and do a lot of useful things in the industrial school the trouble is not with the authora ties it Is with the girls themselves you see there Is no separation of girls innocent young girls who are sent there simply because they have no homes must mix with girls who have been sent there for immorality from the cities never had fair chance the girl never has had a fair fajr chance her father separated from her mother and had no heed of his I 1 atle daughter her ker mother married again maybethe May maybe bothe the a 0 1 11 e JQ SN av wara 12 q 0 ir 0 q 4 alp 4 iaze little girl was wild her face is a wild wilful face she is strong and willful and full of energy an energy that if directed rightly might be a power for good misdirected it might be a power tor for evil quite evidently her parents tailed failed her this might be taken as an ment against parental and in favor of state control the argement arg ament of the so cla lists when fiances blooms parents tail fall ed her the state took her in charge just how well the state fulfilled its duty to 14 year old frances bloom her story of her life at the state indus trial school sets forth in full when my parents tailed failed me ehe she says in effect I 1 knew nothing of evil when the state took charge of me I 1 learnt everything that was evil cla cis m of the state now the state which failed frances bloom claims that she owes it a debt of good conduct and of proper behavior it has sent her to the workhouse for days and demands that she shall pay that debt in full frances bloom is paying the state what the state claims she owes it tor for infractions of it be good rules how can frances bloom collect from the state what the state owes her the state which declares that all men and women are born free and equal and have got an equal right to happiness and to prosperity 9 what has the state done tor for its ward frances bloom it put her in a home where she learned evil true she admits her debt to the state she admits that it gave her a scholastic education associated with thieve thieves but in giving her that education it obliged her to associate with thieves and with immoral women innocent young girls whose crime is that they have neither par ants nor homes says frances bloom are obliged by the state to assoil ate with thieves and with immoral women Is the state fulfilling its whole duty to innocent young girls whose only crime is that they have neither parents nor homes A V hat will you do when you become a tree free agent was the question asked of frances bloom I 1 will go to the home of my married sister she said she has been good to me I 1 will work I 1 do not care at what I 1 work I 1 will work in a factory or in a store tore s or in a private family I 1 can do good work I 1 am willing to work all I 1 ask la Is a fair chance i arl kimmel the golden rule po lice judge of st louis is inclined to give frances bloom the fair chance which she says she wants will frances bloom accept the chance which judge kimmel and may be society offers hera those who know her say that she has one decided weakness a liking tor for masculine society come as it may I 1 am willing to say that practically all of the tho girls who have been in in du schools go wrong aft afterwards ewards says frances bloom Is the state is society re pon sibie tor for the evil that frances bloom prod act ct ef the school may have done evidently she owes but little to her parents or to the state but every human being owes something to sod sect ety frances bloom owes that corn com mon men debt it Is up to her now to make good the debt her entire past Is against her calvin white a opinion there may be some hope tor for men who come to the workhouse says calvin white superintendent there la is no how hope for the women who come here they are JLII 11 weaklings they should all be in homes tor for the detent tor for the weak for the hope less what good will keeping frances bloom in the workhouse do doa what la Is to be done with this strong energetic young girl whole par parents n 8 failed her and whose state sent h her r where she learnt little save what w was evil 7 clearly it Is a question that sooner or or later society must answer in the full 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