OCTOBER 15, 1913 



735 



Our Homes 



A. I. Root 



Pure religion and iindefiled Ijefore our God and 

 Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in 

 their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from 

 the world. — James 1:27. 



I clip the following from the Cleveland 

 Plain Dealer: 



When one of the Atlantic liners docked at New 

 York, June 16, it bore among other passengers in 

 the steerage a woman and a little child, on their 

 way to join the husband and father in America — 

 the land where one always has enough to eat, and 

 where there are no nobles and landlords to whom 

 one must bow very low. 



Father had saved enough for a passage for mother, 

 the family was to be reunited and all would be well. 

 The father was Constantine Michalski. The newcom- 

 ers were Antonia, his wife, and three-year-old Maria, 

 bound for Cleveland. 



They arrived. Eight days later Constantine was 

 killed in an accident. Mother and child were left 

 penniless. 



To-day, because the two have become public 

 charges, they are to be placed on a New York train 

 by immigration officials and will be deported. 



I suiDj^ose our emigTation laws are wise, 

 and almost a necessity; but when carried 

 out to the very letter in some cases they 

 work hardship and trouble. This good wo- 

 man and her three-year-old daughter in one 

 brief hour had all her dreams of the New 

 World shattered, and through no fault of 

 their own so far as we know; and yet she 

 is pushed away back across the ocean, per- 

 haps to be dropped without friends or 

 means. I was wondering Avhy the W. C. T. 

 U. or the Salvation Army or some other 

 worthy society could not have found a j^lace 

 for this woman where she could supi:)ort 

 herself and child, especially when there is 

 such an increasing demand for help of all 

 kinds. It will cost quite a little sum to send 

 her back to her old home. Now, could not 

 this sum have been employed in i^lacing her 

 where she could do good and receive good? 

 Can any of our readers tell me if there is 

 any such institution located near where em- 

 igrants land? 



The above paves the way in a vivid man- 

 ner for something else that is just coming 

 up before our American people. Read the 

 following, which I clijo from the Illinois 

 [sfiue : 



.MISPL.iCED PERSONAL LIBERTY. 



Why dnpiive paupers, lunatics, idiots, and crim- 

 inals of the personal liberty of landing upon our 

 shores, and grant saloon-keepers the personal liberty 

 of manufacturing them at home ? 



What do you think about it, friends'? 

 While our nation is thus treating that poor 

 woman and her child described in the above, 

 is it really true that the saloon business, at 

 least indirectly, is kept going and encou- 

 raged in its work of manufacturing pau- 

 pers, lunatics, idiots, and criminals"? An- 

 swer the question yourself. If you are in 



dry territory where no saloons exist, thank 

 God; and after you have thanked him for 

 your own environment, read the news com- 

 ing from all the great cities or any small 

 town where saloons are tolerated, and then 

 wake up and do something. Mr. Rutledge, 

 the great temperance orator, told us a few 

 days ago that several important temperance 

 measures had been lost, some of them here 

 in Ohio, because only one voter in seven 

 voted at all; and in our recent crusade for 

 woman suffrage, only one man in three vot- 

 ed either for or agtctnst. They just stayed 

 at home and attended to what they consid- 

 ered to be more imi3ortant business. 



But there is going to be an awakening, 

 thank God, and an awakening is now going 

 on all over this wliole wide world, and God's 

 kingdom is coming. 



With the above as an introduction I wish 

 to submit to you anotlier important matter 

 concerning which the world is (thank God) 

 also waking up. In our issue for Septem- 

 ber 1.5 I spoke about dentistry and what it 

 is doing for the health of our people. A 

 good friend of mine has sent me a beautiful 

 little magazine entitled Oral Hygiene, a 

 journal for dentists; and after briefly turn- 

 ing over its pages I devoutly wished it could 

 be read by every man, woman, and child. 

 Here is the letter that called my attention 

 to the magazine: 



Cowan, Carr & Lauderdale, 

 Producers of 



HONEY 



Geneseo, New York 

 My dear Sir: — By this mail I am sending you a 

 copy of Oral Hi/gicne, and desire to draw your at- 

 tention to the editorial by Dr. Hunt, on page 226. 

 It may be a little too plain-spoken for a lay publica- 

 tion such as Gleanings, but I think your perusal 

 of the article will possibly be of assistance to you 

 in some of your future writing; and at any rate I 

 am glad to introduce to you another courageous man, 

 " Dr. Hunt," who is not afraid to say what he 

 knows is true. 



Geneseo, N. Y., Sept. 13. J. W. Cowan. 



Below is the article referred to, which 1 

 clip from said magazine: 



Every child has the sacred and inalienable right 

 to be born free from disease, free from deformity, 

 and with pure blood. The State which does not do 

 its full duty in the matter of securing these sacred 

 and inalienable rights to all children is deficient and 

 delinquent in its duties. 



From 70 to 80 per cent of abdominal and pelvic 

 surgical operations on women are the result of go- 

 norrheal infection transmitted by infected and sup- 

 posedly ciired husbands. 



Gonorrhea permanently maims one in a hundred 

 and kills one in two hundred. 



It is a shame to our civilization, a fearful sin of 

 omission on the jiart of the State, that not less than 

 live hundred noble and pure women are inoculated 

 annually in Indiana with loathsome diseases, and 

 the law is silent. 



