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EMiaRMON AS A PREVENTIVE AGEKCY. 29>Sh
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Matory Since Movement The Above , Was It...
¦ cessi which ty the for reformatory some other mode movement of action is carried than individual on , sprung , from sprung tied tlie from
nethe -want of scope for such action as would meet the case , up as the How individual are those is hel by less the masses thousand to be restrictions dealt with of who our modern have fallen society out . p
of all connection with individual helping power . To give an inone stance who , and did not shut h mi their ght be found s to it every . A day str i a nger the crossing year by any the eye
mi Mall asleep ght in have on the one been earl of y the that dark benche of of intoxication a s , winter " ht , evening at It h any eeding sees rate not her a however it . young " was The death woman intoxi sleep to
lie there on the raw December nig . was - cation , but exhaustion . " Do go home , " said the stranger .
" I have no home , " answered the girl . " Have you no friends in London ?" _^ Not one . "
" " I But have you sometimes must . have a lived bed in somewhere a lodging latel house y ? , " sometimes no bed
at all , only a bench in the park . " . " "I But was the there workhouse . St . James at least ' s casual is . open ward . " is fall , if I went elsemust out in such
where it would be the same . Plenty of us sleep nig She hts d as answered her these to shed . " thus tears far and quite answer sullenl in y ; a an different expression tone . of She sympath spoke y
feeling from of cause her broken sufferings of utter sleep hopelessness , cold the and park hunger and bench hel among p during lessness the the . least cold The of dark these awakenings ni . g The hts .
The shefancied shiverings she and had on the awakened cramps in that some seized lace her of , till torment in the . darkness She told p
no cated fine . and story her : " conversation All my own proved fault , " as she much said . . She was not
unedu-, " 'il There know are there places are of , but refuge I have . " none to help me and I am past
hel the Now p other ing in myself side such , . a say " case ing as " There this what and is no can hel an p for individual unable it ? " Here do to ? extricate is Pass a human by her on
hunger the being self , kindl haunted sunk , and to December disease by the thoug lips will hts in darkness soon sin of self put -destruction suffering an she end may , to . drop her Let sufferings into her alone the ; murk : or cold in y ,
is not posing Thames care of . to y the This put case , his sentimental perhaps , princi thoug , p h is le in we the to the venture so , col severe reformatory d-hlooded to a practical say economical mode the economist test of . ' disposing way _Biit of would there dis of
it . nothing The ' cold very -blooded economical' is rather the more sentimental of _,, method
the two . This is the reformatory .
Emiarmon As A Preventive Agekcy. 29>Sh
_EMiaRMON AS A PREVENTIVE AGEKCY . 29 > Sh
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 295, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/7/
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