Chapter XXV
Reading edition
HOMELESS GIRLS.
The President of the Society—Mr. William A. Booth—His Character and Capacity—His Policy in Regard to the Lodging-houses—His Suggestion about the Street-girls—The Histories of these Girls—Causes of their Condition—Their Unstable Character—Their Condition Fifteen Years Ago Hopeless—THE GIRLS' LODGING-HOUSE—Its Plan—Means of Filling it—Miserable Girls who Applied for Admission—Great Difficulties Encountered—Necessity of Confining it to the Young, and Those not Vicious—Principal Frequenters, Young Girls between Fourteen and Eighteen—The Matron—Her Characteristics—The House was not to be an Asylum—Our Effort to put the Girls in Places—Struggles of Mr. and Mrs. Trott—Incidents from the Journal—Cases of Reform—THE SEWING-MACHINE SCHOOL—Its Great Success—TRAINING SCHOOL FOR SERVANTS—Results from the Work of the Lodging-house………………………….pp. 298-315