Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1915 — HELP WAR BABIES' MOTHERS [ARTICLE]

HELP WAR BABIES' MOTHERS

Mrs. Lloyd-George Is Aiding in Care of English Unfortunates. A scheme for the training in remunerative work of unmarried mothers was inaugurated recently at a meeting of Evangelical church women in the Welsh chapel, Charing Cross road. A house has been taken in a small country town, at the foot of the Wiltshire downs, where 14 young women will shortly be received. It is intended that each girl shall learn domestic crafts, gardening, or poultry rearing. The instruction will be given in the course of the ordinary work of the house, commencing before and continuing after the child is born. Doctor Saleeby said that it was a sign of progress that in a Calvinistic chapel people should consider the claims of the unmarried mother, and he characterized the work that was about to be undertaken not only as religious, but as hygienic in the highest sense of the word. "In so far as you save a single young mother from the life of the streets,” he said, “you are protecting the future generation from indescrible evils.” Mrs. Lloyd-George, who is deeply interested in the experiment of caring for unmarried mothers on constructive lines, was unable to attend the meeting, having been called into the country to see her little girl, who is ill. With many others interested in social welfare, she feels that more could be done to reclaim young mothers if a course of training could be given to them on broader and more interesting lines than those of the past. The home, which is picturesquely called "The Retreat,” will have these ideals before it in all its various activities.—London Chronicle.