Show II I II I I i Great Work for Women ii Written prepare prepared and presented b Ly by Mrs N. N Man Mansell M. M A A. A M. M 1 D D. Lucknow India Signed J lJ by five fifty lad lady doctors doctor Any Aimy one omme desiring full Cull information can obtain It of oC the Indo Indu Womans Woman's Restoration league loague No o. o West Vest FIrst street Lo Los Ang Angeles les Cal Cn Thia is ono omme of or time the great movements mo of oC the tho day Jay for bettering womans woman's condition con con- in iii the time world and neo needs Js the time sympathy of oC it all woolen women The Tho census for or 1891 gives the tho followIng following fol fol- foi- foi lowing returns of early marriages in British India Females under 4 years car of 01 age ac females from G ij to 9 years of ot age 2 females from 10 to 14 1 years cars of or age G. G And these to tu men of all ages This is surely a condition calling for forthe forthe the Interest of womankind Humanity Is a continuous chain and when any anyone one part Is weak weal th the I whole chain is endangered ored But in strengthening the time chain w we should not miot rail fail to fir first t mend the tho weal weak links s nearest There ou ought ht to be a lea league uc of wIves formed in lii every overy town own and LOll cit city i in America to I protest against J p H 10 do do- o- o of r ir evil is unknot n n in In Oriental l countries It b belongs longs to civilization It is a custom cus cus- torn tom mainly to be found among th the well-to-do well the time Idle Illio and time tho g people who are aro situated to give ghe children children chil chil- dren time the advantages a and amI the Iho comforts of or life Women In poo good standing n In Inmany inmany many fashionable churches al aid aided c ed b JY reputable ph physicians commit this thi crime against nature and no protest Is made If tho woman dies as 11 a penalty of her bier act the physician calls call her hOl malady a a. complication of or dis dis- is- is eases cases cas g Time The practice is a growing menace to Increase of population among th the better hetter classes Why Thy Is it wholly holl ignored among amons- ou our man many reform clubs Every da day shiploads s of young cm grants land on our shores Tn every city there aro are bands o of oC depraved cd men inca aided by aban abandoned women who uso mm systematized efforts to lead thc these c young oung virtuous g girls gins Into dissolute lives cs Practically no attention is paid to this fact by tho the good women o of oC America savo save when some somo terrible ex ox- louLe comes periodically through time the escape of one of these poor victims from Crom room a don tIon of or Infamy There is a crying need of an aim organized or or- effort to sa savo these girls The Time mothers o of young oung American girls g need to form a protective league lea to savo save their o on n children from front being led into d danger li el A great reform Is needed NOW V O in our system of brinin bringing up young oung girls Such uch disasters as wore vero related rebated at the time Thaw trial and amid such depraved little girls as figured in iii tho time TIa Raymond mon J Hitchcock scandal recently are arc direct results of or the tho neglect of or mothers to protect their own children from evil ell Our competitIve o system with Its trusts and sweat shops and antI monopolies monopolies lies forces thousands thousand of oC poor pOOl girls to work mork for starvation wa wages Mages s and sends hundreds of them into tho streets Women anxious to to reform conditions condi contIl- timis abroad should give ivo a little time timeto to tho timo stud study of or economic conditions at home and Inform th themselves of tho dangers and amid sufferings of the tho working girls In largo large towns It would be well for or all nil women bent benton on bettering the time condition of wom n nin In an any part of tho the world worl 1 to learn what power powel lies in the ballot and antI what enlarged enlarged enlarged en en- opportunities for usefulness it would give e woman vonian ere she he entitled to the privilege llego shared by all other adult human beings save savo convicts and Idiots i |