HC a7 30-
STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
AT LANCASTER
A KITCHEN AT LANCASTER.
SAVINGS BANK DEPOSITS,
172 qirls deposited
during the year,
86 depositors
drew out,.
2,346.44
2, 373.71
to be spent for doctors and dentist
bills, preparation for wedding outfits
etc. and cominq of age.
One qirl cominq to the school from
a miserable home has $120 on de-
posit and earns $5 a week, from
which she pays her board. Being
over 20 years old she is allowed
to qo home and look after a younger
Sister who is qettinq wild. You
know that I have had experience
and I thinkI can help her.
qirl, proud and independent, would find places for
herself without reporting, which cost her visitor much anxiety
her visitor really
Another
At last the qirl discovered that
had
confidence in her, and her reserve qave way, so at 21 these
friendly relations have not been broken.
Still another who had worked hard on a farm and saved $ 60,
was enabled to pay for a course in typewriting and stenoq-
raphy, while still earning
her board by light housework.
Showing where MARRIED GIRLS under care durinq 1902 1903
and their PRESENT CONDUCT
MET THEIR HUSBANDS
Met in their places
81 per cent
Met in their homes
or 75 per cent
living respectably
conduct bad or doubtful.
35
or
21
07 per cent
or 18 per cent
3
or
conduct unknown...
or 12 per cent 2
or 07 per cent
