Show One Womans Woman's Work of Rescue I I RY BY ELLA WhEELER ELFR WILCOX Among tho the world full tul of ot good WOmen women women wo wo- WO- WO men who ar are arc trying to lesson tho the miseries ins mis eries lles of ot earth ton toi suffering stiffening humanity there thero lives and labors In Oakland Cal Cat a n sweet woman named G. G Nichols Mrs Nichols Is superintendent of or tho tim Childrens Children's Rescue Work of or Oakland Mrs rs Is known throughout California as tho the Waifs Waits Friend Sho She has hns reclaimed many an unfortunate child from tho the slums and homes of or misery and has placed them In good re respectable p homes where they nave navo been well wel cared caret for and tau taught ht how to live lives The vast at amount of ot good which sho she has dono can never nevor bo be fully lully tuly told Tao object of ot the work Is to rescue orphans abused and abandoned children children chi chi- chil chil- dren from the thc streets and ami from rom Unnatural unnatural unnatural un un- natural homes homos and lit fit thorn thom to become useful members of Jt society to make mako them then honest law abiding citizens antI and to decrease as n much as a pO possible the supply to the tho ranks o of p pauperism and nd crime fR f L Now v hero horo are arc somo j S cost coet tills cohu- cohu The Tho criminal classes coet ttA country cotta coun try more moro than over every year San Francisco's criminal taxation shows an average of oC 5 per capita In smaller towns tho the average Is 18 and through the country 1 The hl cost coat of or education throughout hout the tho United States in 1899 was loss than a a 1188 third of tho the amount spent for tor criminal classes California's expenses for 1901 l land and 1902 were of oC that 3 was spent to care for the de delinquents delinquents de- de and dependents This does not Include tho the expenditures of cities cItes and counties for Cor detectives There Thero countes are aro boys bos and girls In our states' states prisons over of or them In California tenths Seven of oC tho the youth left to their own resources be become become be- be come coins criminals Jet young oung girls are led Into a life of or shamo shame every cery year ear help Somo of ot these can be bo saved If f you OU will sili De c nt It H is a well velI wel known fact tact that from a single neglected child In iii a n wealthy county in Now New York there thero has come como a notorious stock of ot criminals va vagabonds vaga a- a bonds an and paupers Not less than 1200 persons havo have been traced as is the direct lineage of ot this ono one perverted degraded ed cd woman who was once a a pure pur-c. sweet dimpled d. d little child and who with proper influences thrown around herIn herin her herin in a tender ago ml might ht havo have given Iven tho tim world 1200 progeny that would havo have blessed their day and generation Sirs Mrs Nichols Is giving her life to this work and tho ho scores of ot boys and girls I in good homes secured by her testify to tho the kind of oC work vork she is 11 doing It I I Ia Isa is isa a worthy cause and one that appeals to ever every heart not wholly devoid dovold of or I sympathy 3 Here ire are somo of or tho thu cases cared fo for tor Girl thirteen years old taken from Crom sail Jail al placed In good home Is doing well vohl wol two girls and sixteen years of ot age taken from Crom tho the depths both living living liv liv- lv- lv ing respectable honorable lives boy hoy twelve years old 01 taken en from Jail Jai motherless and friendless In a good home where whore ho lie Is well veli wel cared cred for baby five 10 days das da's old baby nine months old ohl baby ten months old have been adopted adopt adopt- ed In lovely homes girl fifteen about to become a ii I mother These are aru a few fow o of tho the ninny many Noble and great a as this work is Is It seems almost Ireat Incredible that that It I should shoud meet with opposition Yet this Is what Mrs Nichols says of at the tho matter the Work ork In I. Wo We are aro doing our best besL to care re for tor tho helpless little ones bereft of ot t fathers and mothers mothel's and who como come Into tho tim world ed ed by tho ho requirements ot of ot man-made man laws as well voll wel as those who open their little eyes to tho the brightness of ot Gods God's sunshine but have havo no legal logal claim to paternal recognition We Ve do donot donot donot not stop there thero for tho tue too confiding girl whose light of o lovo love Illuminated her hopes hones and caused her to part with wih tho tim brightest Jewel In her casket of oC life also alBo comes within the garden of our care and them we endeavor to surround with every saCe safeguard uart that shall take them Into tho the world worl again and place their feet Ceet upon a firmer footing In lifes life's lre's pathway giving them another chance chanco to become useful member members mem morn bars bers of ot society which condemns them theta without tho the wit knowing h why In this wo we meet with wih diversities of ot opinion the preponderance being in fa favor fa- fa rot vor 01 of or our course But Dut wo wo meet with wih those who contend that over every girl should bo ho sent out 1 again Into the Ihn world burdened with wih tho the evidence of or her too confiding trust and required to pay tho the penalty by a a. n long life Ions publication thereof In the tho care of or tho the poor little Irresponsible bit hIt of ot humanity which has lias come como into tho the world In obedience to a it 1 higher law Jaw than marks the emanation of oC man ro To U us such Ruch u a 1 course seems a crime We Ve cannot look through h such such- such dim glasses hence we care for Cor the little wait waif hind It a good homo until unU a oot such time as th the tho mother mothel if I so disposed ills dis Ils- Ils posed can take It h hy by adoption or otherwise otherwise other other- wise and give it a mothers mother's mothers mother's care caro Und tutU see teo eo that its Is usefulness is not lost Jost to t the tho human family In Its Is work In the tho In vineyard of ot life JIt flint Social Question ton I want your OUT opinion on oti that subject subject sub suh- and will wIl state stale the thc question queston clearly clearl Should a a girl who ha has trusted In Inthe tho the honor and promises o of tho the man she loved lo ed and been deceived bo be turned out Into tho tim world and compo compelled led to carry tho thio evidence of ot her hor burden with wih her and thus publish her misfortune for life people to an a unfeeling and uncharitable Thero There was a man Iv lived over o er nineteen hundred years ago ngo who spoke some sorno soro memorable men regarding 4 erring wo wo- Of Ot the thc woman taken in fn a her hor sin aln Ho lie said said- all Let t him who Is without sIn ca cast t the first stone And to her Ho lIe 10 gave this command Go and arid sin no more mon Of OC Mary Magdalen Ho lo said Her Ier sins which are arc ninny many aro forgiven FOR SHE HAS R LOVED MUCH but to whom little Is forgiven the tho same amt loveth th little And to her Woman V oman thy sl sins nR a are ro forgiven the thee It I 11 Is impossible to understand Just why tho the self announced followers of tho the Great and Kind Master should set themselves tho the task of persecuting tho lie fallen falen women of ot earth with scourge and nd lash after aner such examples of complete complete com corn pleto for forgiveness heness as al Christ Crist gave Savo tho the world It I was th the Idea Iten of or the tho Early Earl Christian ChrIstan Fathers not Christs Christ's Idea Idea To no other sinners did Christ show how howa a leaper compassion than to the erring women of oC Ills His day and time Christ Christs Idea Iden Nowhere In Jn all nI His brief beautiful life can bo be found ono one word or act or evidence that Ho lie 10 wished these women women wo wo- wo- wo men inca to bo ho followed forever b by the theW W worlds world's scorn or 8 For t the tho money oncY money landers and the tho th selfish rich and the tho to voiced loud d' d sees Aces who prayed In public places Ho lie had harl far tar less leBs pit pl pity far loss less charlt charity To man many such Ho He exhibited a n de decidedly do- do dl- dl human spirit of or angry disgust disgust disgust dis dis- gust and called caled them hard names But to tho the erring women Ho Ito was as asvery very tender ver very charitable because THEY HAD LOVED MUCH Thero There aro are hundreds of women who ho aro are favored b by the world whoso whose pictures pictures pic plc- tures tunes adorn tho the pages of ot society magazines mug mag and whoso names appear in tho the lists of ot guests at smart functions who deserve to be held up to the scorn and censure of ot all thinking right minds because they thoy SOLD THEIR BODIES FOR FOrt GOLD ON THE TIlE MATRIMONIAL r BLOCK TO MEN I THEY DESPISED Such women are arc far tar greater sinners In the tho eyes oyes o of God than tho deceived and deluded girl who gives her herself el to the tho lover or she worships and Is do- do b by him before ncr her child Is born One Ono Is th disgusting cold-blooded cold sin ln of mercenary ambition tho other oter tho pitiful weakness o of a a loving 10 soul Roul which has lost Its iA moral standards and I Its self respecting sel Ideals Ideal In the tho blinding glare of ot an Individual passion Thero There Is not tho the slightest danger that an any system of ot charl charity nuch stica as Mrs Irs Nichols represents will wil Increase tho the number of oC erring women In tho the land 11 Aid the Fallen n. n 1 Women omen do not deliberately plan to tobe tobe tobo be bo unwedded mothers mother No punishment accorded tho the mother would prevent her being being n it part of ot the human human human hu hu- hu- hu man family In its Hs present state of ot evolution evolution evo evo- lution luton and with man In his delayed moral development Unless the father rather o of tho the child can bo be branded with wih the tho mother It I Is manifestly unjust to send her forth Into the world to a life o of hopeless and unending shame And ne no protection no help which charitable like Christ Christ organizations o of society can offer ocer her hor will Il save sac such a woman woman from rom tho the full tul punishment which sho she must al always always always al- al ways bear In her own bitter biter and ex- ex memories Tho The child o of or tho the unwedded mother Is Innocent and blameless There Thero Is IK tho the spirit o of the human human devil devi Instead of or tho the Divine Divino Christ In Inthe Inthe inthe the man or woman who believes a child should go o branded through the world b by the tho nets acts Bes of ot his parents when by human interposition it can bo be pro pro- I God save savo us all al from such Christans Christians Christians Chris II tans God speed tho the good work worle of Mrs Ni Nichols cli ol 5 And mn may man many true and worthy orthy followers followers followers fol fol- fol- fol lowers of or the tho dear gentle Christ send subscriptions to Mrs Nichols Oakland Cal caro care o of tho the Rescue Homo Home for Children to help her on with her en en- en |