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room, three dollars for her Ijoard, and sixty cents 

 a week for car fare, and she had found the forty 

 cents remaining inadequate to do more than re-sole 

 her old shoes twice. When the shoes became too 

 worn to endure a third soleing, she gave up her 

 struggle ; to use her own contemptuous phrase, she 

 " sold out for a pair of shoes." Then, again, the 

 need for lo\e and affection is often the cau.se of a 

 girl's fall. 



rUBLlC OPINION RIPE FOR LAW. 



Peril. ips the most pitiful part of Miss Addams" 

 Iwok is that in which she describes her visit to one 

 of the Chicago rescue homes, the tender ages of the 

 little cliildren brought there horrifying the gfwd 

 women who ha\e promoted the home. 



Miss Addams is convinced that these philanthropic 

 ameliorations are of little avail to stem the evil ; what 

 is needed are strong legislative enactments bv the 

 Governments themselves, for public opinion is nri 

 longer indifferent. 



ALCOHOLISM MAKES SOCIAL EVIL PAY. 



In dealing with forces working towards limitation 

 and control of the white slave traffic, Miss Addams 

 lays special stress upon the part which alcoholism 

 ]ilays in this sordid trade, and holds that decrease 

 in alcoholi.sm will aid much in decreasing the ancient 

 evil, and especially the dragging of voung girls 

 down to the depths. " A careful scientist has called 



alcohol the indispensable vehicle of the business 

 transacted by the white slave trades, and has asserted 

 that without its use this trade oould not long con- 

 tinue. ... It is estimated that the liquor sold by 

 such girls nets a profit to the trade of two hundred 

 and fifty per cent, over and above the girls' own 

 commission." General Brigham, formerly Police 

 Commissioner of New York, says: — "There is not 

 enough depravity in human nature to keep alive this 

 very' large business. The immorality of women and 

 the brutishness of men have to be persuaded, coaxed, 

 and constantly stimulated, in order to keep the 

 .social evil in its present state of business pros- 

 perity.". This dependence upon alcohol would seem 

 to prove that both chastity and .self-restraint are 

 more firmlv established than is realised. 



THE ELOQUENCE OF SINCERITY. 



This is a notable book — the product of deep arid 

 feeling knowledge and infinite tenderness. It has 

 no pretensions to literary style or eloquence, but there 

 is no page which has not the eloquence of sincerity, 

 the determination to accomplish something marked 

 upon it. Of all the notable and enduring w'ork of 

 >Iiss Jane Addams, this little book must take, if not 

 the highest, at least a very high place. It is a work 

 which ought to be read by all who have at heart 

 social betterment, since to ignore this great question 

 is to leave a canker-worm at the heart of the new 

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