1867-1870 FEMALE GUARDIAN SOCIETY MAG. Civil War Widows, Prostitution, Work-Houses, Sex Trafficking, &c.

Very scarce volume including three and a half full years of an important periodical created for the edification of women and raising funds and advocacy for societies to rescue vulnerable women from poverty, work houses, prostitution, etc., The periodical became especially important as women would become the "home guard" during the Civil War and the number of single mothers in the years after the war reached statistically unsustainable levels, leading to an upswing in prostitution and female enslavement, etc., 

Provides critical insight into views of the idealized woman of the era, etc. etc. Other subjects as well. Take a moment to scan through the contents. Excellent and very scarce.

The Advocate and Family Guardian. A Semi-Monthly Periodical. The Organ of the American Female Guardian Society, Home for the Friendless and Home Industrial Schools. New York. American Female Guardian Society. 1867. 292pp

Contents include:

Be Ye Warmed and Fed; The Mariner's Compass; Family Worship - Two Methods; Dipsomania [Alcoholism]; The Foster Mother; Counsel to Boys; The Weed in the Sermon [smoking tobacco]; How to Take a Child from the "Home;" Arrest of Vicious Children; He Shall Turn the Hearts of the Fathers to the Children; Swindling the People; What about Fashionable Gambling; Human Depravity; Acquaintance with God; A Dream of Paradise by Christina G. Rossetti; A Pentecostal Scene; The Child's Prayer; Plain Thoughts of a Foster-Mother; Christian Gambling; A Sailor's Visit; A Brave Sailor Boy; The Workhouse Death-Bed; Intemperance by Mrs. E. H. Fonda; Cruelty to Children; Industrial Schools; On the Moral Training of Children; Was Harriet Newell's Life Wasted [Adoniram Judson co-worker]; Our Young Women; Rebuke of Sin; Anger and its Fruits; Cause of Vice and Crime; The New York State Inebriate Asylum; Hidden Evils; My Mother's Bible by J. Dowling; The Orphan's Will; A Useful Woman; The Non-Reading Community; About Signing the Temperance Pledge; The Orphan's Cry; The Fisherman's Child; Filial Affection; The Mother's Concert of Prayer; Prematurely Grey ; The Unmanageables; Lines on a Human Skeleton; Guardians of the Poor; Insanity; The Suppliant; Cards; What Ragged Schools Have Done; Praying in the Spirit; The Spirit Resisted; Christianity and Culture; etc. 

The Advocate and Family Guardian. A Semi-Monthly Periodical. The Organ of the American Female Guardian Society, Home for the Friendless and Home Industrial Schools. New York. American Female Guardian Society. 1868. 292pp

Contents include:

Social Evils; Servants; Prayer for Children; Extracts and Incidents from School Reports; Death of a Home Child in Illinois; Prayer for Our Country; Bishop Coxe's Opinion of American Women; A Scathing Review of Charles Dickens [our young friends cannot read Dickens without injury]; Suicide; Sin or Starve - A True Story; A Woman's Influence; My Little Girls; Card-Playing; Christian Children; Wine Drinking in California; Heroes in Minnesota; Idleness a Sin; A Colored Preacher on Benevolence; Female Prayer Meetings; Christian Children; Half-Tithes; Hidden Evils; Self-Government; Justice to Woman; Tribute to a Noble Woman; Temperance for Women; Letters from Foster Parents; Irish Mary; Fifth Annual Report for Schools for Freedmen [lengthy review]; The Disobedient Children; Help for Working Women; Woman in Light of Christ's Life and Ministry; Carrie's Temptation; Shall Mothers Use Alcoholic Stimulants; For the Reapers are the Angels; Answer to Prayer; An Energetic Woman; Lord if Thou Hadst beeen Here my Mother would not have Died; Deceiving Children; Fiction [Evils of Fiction Literature]; The Right End of the Skein by Harriet Beecher Stowe; Woman a Power; My Religious Experience; Fairy Touches by Kate Mongtomery; Criminal Training; The Young Men's Home in New York City; Mother's Concert of Prayer; Social Duties; Why not Go to the Play?; The Women of Germany; Who Comes Down the Chimney [ Santa Claus ]; Woman's Work in London; etc. etc. 

The Advocate and Family Guardian. A Semi-Monthly Periodical. The Organ of the American Female Guardian Society, Home for the Friendless and Home Industrial Schools. New York. American Female Guardian Society. 1869. 290pp

Contents include:

How Ragged Schools Commenced; A Workin Woman's Morning Thoughts; Caring for the Poor - Its Trials and Rewards; Bourbon; The Woman's Hospital; Woman's Work and Wages; Woman's Suffrage; Take this Child; The Convict Sabbath-School Pupil; Somebody's Baby; Mother's Meetings; An Emigration Movement; Woman's Work by Mrs. E. R. Wells; The Blessing of a Grandmother; The Widow's Mite; The Coming War in the West between Woman and Whiskey; Shall Sorrow Kill or Heal; Fashionable Evils; Working for Jesus - Incidents in One of Our Industrial Schools; Eminent Women [by Florence Nightingale]; Songs of the Decanter Answered by the Song of the Water Jug; Influence of Young Ladies; Midnight Meeting of Fallen Women [ Prostitutes ]; Qualifications of a Bible Woman; The Master's Workmen; Aunt Divine's Opinion; Moral Purity; Letters from Foster-Parents; Supporting the Theatre; Ornamental Dress; Who Killed Her?; Employers and Employed; Mrs. Lloyd among the Zulus; Entire Consecration; Is Politeness Consistent with Sincerity; The Marriage Relation; The Servant-Girl Question; Children Need Sympathy; Irish Life; The Child-Worker; Honest Poverty; Constitutional Sins; The Squatters and their Wretched Hovels; An Hour among the Shanties; Pure Religion Undefiled; Careless Marriages; Influence of Young Ladies; What Can we Do for the Drunkard?; Confidence and Power; Whose was this Kid?; Pleasure is Cheap; Boys Smoking; Boys Out after Nightfall; Sending Away Our Poor; A New Way for Women; etc.

The Advocate and Family Guardian. A Semi-Monthly Periodical. The Organ of the American Female Guardian Society, Home for the Friendless and Home Industrial Schools. New York. American Female Guardian Society. January through June, 1870. 134pp

Contents include:

Homeless and Sheltered; Murder; The Mission of Sorrow; Making Haste to be Rich; A Day with a Bible Woman; Boo Man; Evil Habits; Christmas at a Newsboy's Home; Church-Going Dressiness; God's Singers; The Christmas Box; The Blessing of Ill Health; How a Home Boy was Brought Up; An Ugly Fact and What to Do About It by T. L. Cuyler [Drinking]; Lulu Going to a Prayer Meeting; Dress; The Mother's Work; Woman's Calling; My Mother Sent Me Here; Poor Week Creatures; A Dance in the Coliseum and some Thoughts on It by Jane Boswell Moore Bristow; How the Ohio Women Feel about Voting [Women against Suffrage]; No Cross, No Crown; Playing and Listening; A Clean Record; Woman at Work Abroad; Two Parties to Drunkenness; An Earnest Inquirer, or the Story of the Garo Boy; Foster Parents, etc.  

In good + condition, bound in half leather, generally solid, with generally bright pages.