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THEY CALL HER A WOMAN WITH A MISSION; HER LIFE HAS BEEN REPLETE WITH MISSIONS8awA1MISS JESSAMINE WHITNEYsi).(waia'iiBy Britt Oral*..She is a'oman with a mission andher career is illustrative of the ability 0/ a typo of modern -woman—you know her1 The woman who does things and aftei having: done some thingsaets instantly about to do othersalaar13The woman of this typo is (revealing: herself during this time of suffrage and strugglo for equal rights and lR proudly displaying the secret that many among her sex are not only cpa Die and worthy but are worthily equal to situations that have frequently daunted that, factor of .humanity which we used to know as her superior sex.Mind you I take pains to say used to know £ make no reference what ever to the present 1 argue neither pro nor con for suffrage Until Georgia admits petticoat ©d poUtloe I stand In the middle of the road where I will he jabbed by neither the suffrage hat pin nor punched by the anti -fiat Some of these davt, well ha\« equal rights, and therefore a systematic house cleaning of politics and the mud will be put where it can t be slung- so gen orouslv, and the cobwebs will come down from our city halls THE STORY OF A USEFUL CAREERFiom this preamble you might suspect this to be a treatise on suffrage But U isn t It 3 a Ktory of a auffra gette who is a whale lot of other things She is Miss Jessamine Whitney, grad uate of Cornell of the class of *05 gov ernment investigator social service worker an official in the New York College 'Womens Suffrage association and at present field agent for tlie W C Roaul Tuberculosis fundShe has come into Georgia to fight •tuberculosis after which sh© Intends to help redeem the girl gone wrong In the meanwhile It is her hope to steer our good old «tecl ribbed ship of state into the port of equal rights Prob abl she U run fbt office That how ever is far aheadShe is smiling and she Isn t small, either m mind policy or statue Noth ing but the family Bible knows hor ago and she vows the only time it will be told will be when she registers for a fixture primary Sb© looks, however to be this side of thirty.And she Is elngle It Is true, she aa8, that an effective way to get a vote la to marry It, but she likewise insists that there aro various other routes to the ballot which are preferable. The truth of the business Is Miss Wliltney has never had time to marry Even consider It. Matrimony is a deplorably Insignificant matter In com-R BACK HURTS,S EXCITE THE KIDNEYSxridAItU1:hidais?\idadthe vital Importance of keeping the kidneys activeDrink lota of water—you oan t drink too -much, also get from any pharma cist about four ounces of Jafl Salts take a tahlespoonful In a glass of wa ter before breakfast each morning for a few days and your kidneys wl)l act fine This famous salts 1? made fromparison to battling the white plague ar.d social conditions HER REPORT ON TUBERCULOSIS.Mibb Whitney as field agent for the ftaoud fiiitd, has juet completed a aur vey of th© ntato of Georgia. Right now she Is busy !n her apartments in the Aragon hotel grinding out her report, which will show that there are some thing like Gil 000 tubercular putients in the state and 10,000 annual deaths from the plague.Her surve has extended over many months Every portion of the state has been covered It Is paid by ex pert3 to be the most thorough invest.! gallon of its kind ever promoted In the Bouth The report will go soon to the publishers and afterward will bo scat I tered over the stateThe first time I ever saw Miss Whit ney wps at Alto some weeks ago, when she was attending the annual meeting of the executive hoard of tho State Sanitarium for Tuberculosis When I heard her quite logical and qulto elo qtieut address before the hoard I wa6 convinced then and there that she was woll worth a storyThat night coming back to Atlanta we discussed social service and white slaver' tlie white plague child labor and conditions among the working girls I dare say that Ive never had a more interesting Interview on such in tereatmg subjects 1Mies Whitney was born and reared in New York state She was educated at Cornell Upon graduation she era barked for Porto Rico upon the firut mission of her fruitful career There she taught the coffee colored, coffee growing natives English and drew a salarj from the government. When she had taught her class the art of chung log American com and the language of the fruit stand and quick iunch conn ter sho was transferred by the .gov ernment back to civilization and put to civilizing the uncivilized child labor conditions.STUDIES CHILD LABOR CONDITIONS.For two years she investigated the child employing cotton, factoriesAccompanied by an assistant, ahe merged into the life of the mill ihand. living for two years the pitiful exlet erjee of the weaver and the loom oper ator Her home waa the home of the mill folk and by days she worked at theii side Her reports on child laboi conditions had much to do with the wi'o of reform that swept over our nation, not so very long agoThen the government sent her to in vestlgato the oyster shuclcerlee on the ! south count and for months ahe thrived in the career of the riffraff shycker thdt floating, careless laborer who comes from the Innermost regions of crvcry shore of the universe and never knows a home in season 01 cut TVhon her efforts had been largely in strumental in bringing about child la bor icforms in this class of workers Bhe went back to New York to in vcstigate the woi^king girl situation It was ah entire year that she livedthe existence of the shop girl working by da\ behind the department ©tor© counter spending her nights in the cheap amusements of the working girl and in the $0 26 weekly boarding house \nlt;l oh sho can toll eom© vivid stories of the days and nights of the shop girl her tragedies and temptations—and her piliXuI wagesAfter the working girl chewpter ot her llfes stor, Miss Whitney 'wa© placed on the staff of the New Yoi«k Slate Training School for Girls. A3 an assistant supervisor she spent a year in this field Now eh© will Beak to Inject some of that institutions mo3t successful methods into the proposednew hones new ideaH and new abilit'Should the question be asked lathe work successful'* there would bean adequate answer m the percentageof eighty five of each hundred gulswho are released «ho return to aocietv perfectly equipped for remodeled I fe■Many of them return often to the school some to spend their vacation* some to bring their friends some In illness Hundiede of them become wlvea—all flam respectable livings Scores of business houses throughout Now York city and state co operate with tho school m the placing ot re leased Inmates in positions where they / may earn worth} wagestttltl. . _ . ... , _ ^ ‘The plan by which these resultsstate training school to be established j ^ Dchievelt;l }3 a comprehenslVe onel The on© dominant factor in the atin GeorgiaLast October she resigned from the» training school to come south and take charge of the field work of the Raoula.bdding'by thethe acid of grape* and lemon juice, combined with lltbia, and baa be©nused for generations to clean and stimulate clogged kidneys l«o to neutralize the acids in urine so It no longer is a source of irritation, thus ending bladder weaknessJad Salts is inexpensive, cannot injure makes a delightful effervescent lithia water drink which everyone should take now and then to keep their kidneys clean and active Try this also keep up the water drinking and no doubt you will wonder what became ot your aidney trouble and backache.Cured HisHUPTUREI was badly ruptured while Lift Inc a link several years ago Doctor* nald my only hope of euro was an operation Trusses did me no rood Finally I not hold of something that quickly and completely enred ra« Yearn have passed and theh rupture has never re turned although I am doing hard work us a carpenter There wan no operation no lost time no trouble I have nothing to sell but will give full Information about how you may And a complete cure without operation t if yon write to roe Eugene M Pullen Car i pouter 1470 aiarcellu* Avenue M.«na-* man N J Better cut out thin noUeci nod ahow •it to any others who are ruptured—jou may lt;»ve a lllo or at least stop tbs misery of rupture and the worry and danger ©I an operation.tuberculosis fund When, tbla has been completed she hopes to take a hand in the establish ment the state train mg sohool for girls to be put in oper atioon by the legvialatuieThis school a ill be located in B*ultoncount* and already baa been endowed b} the legihlature It iu the ambition 0/ those at the head of the move to rejuvenate the yonng girls gone wrong and train thorn. In a modern college in tead of sending tihem to the work house and prisons -and reformatories ft will likely be conducted on the exact lines of the New York state institution‘The problem of tbe very young girl Miss Whitney told me, and the moat efficient mode erf restoring her to society an a useful and law-abddi member can only be solved training school To imprison the girl of tender years with hardened ciinu nals make* hur recovery to normal life an impossibilityNEW YORK COLLEGE PLANSI Suppose the Georgia tra rungschool will be opei.ited on the pi m 01 the New York collet 1 he ,,11 lb re ceived in the latter ph e are all be between the ages of 12 and 1, years and are committed to the school from the courts of the state They are helduntil the age of 21“The majority of the commitments to the New York school are for »ex Crimea, many for improper guardian ship and a number for association with diM**olute characters There are no laws I understand in Georgia for Hit* Idllor offense If so they arc not cntoned a' thoioughly as they should be Improper guardianship and disso lute associations aie two of the great C3t evils with which tho world has to contend in Its fight for social better mrntif thcic is any one who believes that white salvery is merely a chimer ital product of tbe modern dramatist, the novelist and th© fanatical social r«foim worker—not the voluntary v. hit© slavery where women maintain parasites by their earnings but the slOACiy where girls are lured from home and beaten and imprisoned—that one should hear but a few of the his toi tea of some of tl»© intnfttea Of tho New York training school Not all have had these harrowing experience® iSome are naturally IncorrigibleTheir oomMneJ histories would make a crimson epitome of human crime1,000 GIRLS HAVE BEEN TAKEN INOver 1 0t girls have been committed -here in tho post few } ears that tho school has been In existence Girls w.ho were taken from the muddy wa ters of the shoals of a big city, thrown Into court, and given tbe opportunity for redemption And this la tho material with which the school Is reconstructing law-abiding citizeua withmosphere of the school and its m*pi rational influence There is an air of mutual help uf joj and usefulness 'ind democracy As visitors have often uuid to m6THEY'RE ALWAYS SMILINGW h} ihe.se girlh dor. t act as prisoiicis Tlicv seem 1 ot afiaid nr. 1 cov. ed and lbc\ are alwa's smillnfeM\ dear folk© I reply win should the act cowed and afraid and wear the J111 of a prison’ Th©v ^ic living free and useful lives—whj shoulcint they each feel th© equal of any one else7Upon the arrival of a new Inmate her history is taken as a matter of record It is then shelved for good and nil concealed in the archives of school records Her past ie never re for red to again She is never per mittcd to even talk of it Let the past bury its dead ie one of the themes of the successful training schoolThe future Jv fraught with hope The mitions and supermtenricnt.n of the vauois cottages do not even know the 1^1 use of commitment of any of tln.11 chtiRt* Tho new gnl almpljbecomes a nev\ member of tJn*t particular i’lirilU and proc««ds on tbeSir«.utirriTlClBiCfC(olpift01There’s No Corn That “GETS-IT” Won’t GetNo More Fussing, Piasters, Salves and Corn Pams Try the New WayJuat look at the v lt;v that corn comes off That* what jou II say when you trv wonderful GETS IT on that com you vo tried so long to prjMftdsm, Per Ttlo«0 Com* That MaW You Jump Chit cf Ycror Shoe*. Try Wonderful * GETS IT.off of your toe It s eaay to apply lt;GBTfi-lT —o«o, two, throe, and it s done' The corn begins to shrivel away sho govs, surely Absolutely A few drops will do it GETS IT never makes toes red and raw Corn pains go’ It means the end of cutting and gouging of corns th© end of sticky plasters that don t work anyhow, the end of salves that eat up your toes, no more harness or fussing Try ■GETS-IT the new. sure way, for corns and calluses „GETS IT *s sold bj all druggists 25c a bottle 01 sent direct by E Lawrence Co, Chicago.(
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Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Sun, Feb 15, 1914
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