NAWSA
General Correspondence
Mitchell, Charles A.

Purity Industrial Homes.
Chas. A. Mitchell, Supt.
STUDENT SELF HELP DEPARTMENT OF MARIONVILLE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE.
REV. L. G. RESER, A. M., President
TURRENTINE HALL.
(For Boys.)
J. G. KEMP, Foreman.
MRS. J. G. KEMP, Matron.
REV. W. M. BOYD, Field Worker.
BURGE HOME.
(For Girls.)
MRS. LILLY ELLIOT, Matron.
These Homes furnish work for students
with which to pay school expenses.
MARIONVILLE, MO.,  12/27/5.  1905

Editor, "Woman's Journal,"
     Dear Friend:--You will see by the enclosed literature what
we are doing for young people, helping students thru school and
taking up the question of personal purity.  Papers and magazines
all over the country are making mention of this, such as the New
Voice, Christian Herald, New York Weekly Witness, and etc.
     If you cared to do so we shall be glad to send you a typewritten
copy.  Kindly let me know on the enclosed card.  We should also be
glad to receive your paper in our reading-room if you cared to send
it.
Your brother,
Char A Mitchell
Supt.
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BURGE HOME.
The above home, to cost $10,000, will be built as fast as free will offerings
will permit.  A $2,000 block has been bought for this, containing a
small frame house which is now being used.
Our great curse is impurity.  Little is one to counteract it, and the boy
is not to blame, not being told the truth in a pure way, but is allowed to pick
up his information in a very hurtful way.  THE PURITY FEATURE requires a
life pledge against whiskey and tobacco, freedom from profanity and obsenity.
The girls agree not to keep company with whiskey or tobacco users.  Reading
books and attending lecturers on purity; Bible reading; family prayer; religious,
temperance, hygienic and purity literature in the reading room and special interest
taken in each boy on the line of personal purity.
THE INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT
provides work for students such as cooking, washing, ironing, barbering, carpentering
painting printing, gardening, farming, wood cutting, blacksmithing
and broom making
Individuals or societies can help us by ordering one dozen or more parlor
brooms, which are sent at $3:50. freight paid for a 30 cent broom.  You lose
nothing, and encourage young men struggling for an education.
This philanthropic work is supported by free will offerings.  It stands for the
annihilation of the liquor traffic, total abstinence from the use and sale of
tobacco, for "A White Life for Two," or a single standard of morals. i  e: that
men should be morally as pure as women, or not to be recognized in society.
We condemn the necessary evil idea and declare that chastity is conducive to
health.  All who endorse the above are urged to co-operate.  If you are a
lover of purity and a friend of industrial education  send us  money, fruit, bedding,
clothing, furniture, books or good papers.
So far over 100 students have been helped and dozens are calling for a
chance to enter the Indusaial Family, as the work students are called.
NEW FACTORY.
A friend gave $500 to buy land opposite the Home, for garden, barn and
factory purposes.  It will be 40x100 twos tories, concrete,  The students
will almost entirely build it  It will be built by free will offerings.  Helping
on this you aid students to get an education.
PURITY BOOKS.
We carry a line of such books which will be sent prepaid for the price below.
For boys: "A Holy Temple," "Safe Guards to Party," and "Not a
Toothache" for 5 cents each.  "Child Confidenc. Rewarded" at 25 cents.
"Teaching Truth" and "Almost a Man." 50 cents each.  "True Manhood"
$1.
For girls: "That Bad Girl" 5 cents, "Child Confidence Rewarded" for 15
cents, "Teaching Truth" and "Almost a Woman" 50 cents each, "For Girls" $2
For Older People, "Pre-Natal Culture" 25 cents and "In His Steps 10
cents.  Tokology, $2.25.

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