Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1909 — “BORDER LINE” GIRL GALLED DEFECTIVE [ARTICLE]

“BORDER LINE” GIRL GALLED DEFECTIVE

Fondness For Dress and Display Indicative of Weakness. Buffalo, June B.—The sixth annual Conference on the Education of Backward, Truant, and Delinquent Children which meets each year in conjunction with the National Conference of Charities and Correction, began its sessions with Colonel C. B. Adams, superintendent of the State School for Boys of St. Charles, 111., presiding. "Sirs. Orphelia L. Amigh, superintendent of the State Training School for Girls of Geneva, 111., made a plea for the border line girl. Mrs. Amigh contended that, “when girls of this class come before a judge for commitment to an institution, it never occurs to him that they are irresponsible and need constant care to keep them from going wrong. “The judge, as well as her parents, calls such a girl wayward, incorrigible, and sometimes vicious, but never defective. “They are usually fond of excitement, dress and display, and what faculty and energy they possess are turned in this The power of reasoning out things for their own benefit seems to be an unknown quantity, so far as good is concerned, and they are easily turned aside from the right path and into the wrong one.”