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more than quote from it; and in respect to
lodging-houses and hostels for women we give
from the same paper, Prevention, a report
from Mrs. Mackirdy's speech made at the
Cory Hall, in Cardiff, on this subject :
"HOSTELS FOR WOMEN
"
Every girl and woman on the streets
is a menace to some home and some
life. It is quite impossible to have a
neglected and cheap womanhood and
with it a fine and progressive manhood.
What a nation's women are, that the
men must also be. No man can be better
than his mother or his mistress. It is
for this reason that we are so set upon
ending all opposition to these hostels for
respectable women. We long to go
forward all the time, and step by step, to
uphold and to care for the woman before
she has fallen. We feel that a woman
degraded is such an awful stumblingblock
to little children and to young
people who may see her.
" Women Need a Rome
" '
I dare say rescue homes '
are all
right in their way, but real homes are of
far more value to the nation. To give a
woman who is on the verge of ruin a
taste of home is to wake in her heart
a desire for home life the most wholesome
desire, next to the love of God, that