43/43 The State stands aloof. Last year the courts of New York City sent three thousand delinquent women to the workhouse on Blackwell's Island,--a place notorious for the low state of its _morale_. They sent only seventeen women to Bedford Reformatory, where a healthy routine of outdoor work, and a most effective system administered by a scientific penologist does wonders with its inmates. Nothing but the will and the organized effort of women will ever solve the most terrible of all problems, or remove from society the reproach of ruined womanhood which blackens it now. |