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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1915
Page
3
The Chautauqua will feature Maud Ballington Booth known as the Angel of the Prisons. She has spent nineteen years in reform work inside prisons and aiding released prisoners and their families. Her talk covers her experiences and the growing prison reform movement nationwide.
Maud Ballington Booth recounts her slum experiences in New York, based on workers’ reports and personal study. She describes tenements with multiple families in single rooms, child hunger, drunkenness, and the harsh impact of saloons. Booth notes her day nursery initiatives and ongoing need despite progress.
Mrs. Booth known as Maud Ballington Booth receives high commendations from wardens for her convict outreach. Warden Thayer of Dannemora cites a study showing 107 enrollees. only three punished after a year. Warden Darby of Ohio notes broader improvements beyond league members. Dozens of wardens affirm the positive impact of her work on prison discipline.
In Good Works, Tighe Hopkins portrays Maud Ballington Booth as a transformative figure whose prison ministry reaches the lonely inmate. He praises her influence, noting she can fill halls and move thousands, and asks how to extend her impact beyond confinement to aid rehabilitation.
Rose Lathrop substitutes as Cinderella at Mrs Carter Philly's masque to deliver Hazel Kendal's message to Archie Brooke. The staged ruse leads to a quiet bond with Lieutenant Philly, who later visits Hazel and Rose, revealing Hazel's plan to marry Archie and prompting a lifelong friendship among the trio.
A London Chronicle style piece surveys odd given names from Puritan times to late 19th century. It cites a 1878 London marriage with a bewildering first name and Dublin licenses with Atleanadiolagra, plus a 1895 Dorinda Cassandra. It notes humorous jury names from James Brome and describes Chanak Kalesi near the Dardanelles with potter's fame and a wandering agent delivering garish crockery trade. A joke about a bride’s housekeeping appears from the Kansas City Journal.
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