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shunned by her acquaintances and turned out upon a 

 cold world without money, without friends, without a 

 character. What can she do 1 Respectable employment 

 she cannot find; for rumor follows her. There seems 

 to be but one door open, the one which she herself so 

 unintentionally opened. In despair, she enters the 

 ''open road to hell," and to her first sad error adds a 

 life of shame. Meanwhile, the villain who betrayed 

 her maintains his standing in society, and plies his 

 arts to win other victims. Is there not an unfair dis- 

 crimination here? Should not the seducer be black- 

 ened with an infamy at least as deep as that which 

 society casts upon the one ])etrayed? 



Fashion.— Tne tempLalion of dress, fine clothing, 

 costly jewelry, and all the extravagances in which 

 rich ladies array themselves, is in many cases too pow- 

 erful for the weakened virtue of poor seamstresses, 

 operatives, and servant girls, who have seen so much 

 of vice as to lose that instinctive loathing for it which 

 they may have once experienced. Thinking to gain 

 a life of ease, with means to gratify their love of show, 

 they barter away their peace of mind for this world, 

 all hope for the next, and only gain a little worthless 

 tinsel, the scorn of their fellow creatures and a host 

 of loathsome diseases. 



Lack of Early Training.— It is needless to dem- 

 onstrate a fact so well established as that the future 

 character of an individual depends very largely upon 

 his early training. If purity and modesty are taught 

 from earliest infancy, the mind is fortified against the 

 assaults of vice. If, instead, the child is allowed to 

 grow up untrained, if the seeds of vice which are sure 

 to fall sooner or later in the most carefully kept ground, 

 are allowed to germinate, if the first buds of evil are 



