The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-12-19

The Lost Girl.

The young girl gets an almost daily
lesson of more or less importance in
the experience of some other young
girl. The lesson ought to he worth
more than it generally seems 10 be, but
it is very difficult Ia teach everybody
everything, and young girls too often
show that they are something else
than angels by rushing in where
angels would fear To tread. ItiS worth
while to mention that the latest warn
ing to confding young women comes
! from BROOKLYN, Where,apparently, more
women per capita get into trouble than
anywhere else in the wide world.
More than fortnight ago 4 young
lady of seventeen, spoken of as pretty
and intelligent, disappeared from her
| fathers home, and her whereabouts
have not since been known. Among
the acquaintanceS of the girl and her
family was a married man whose wife
didn't seem to be troubled with ieal-
| OuSy, and allowed him ito have a lit
tie innocent amusement with the
children" as she conveniently put
! il. One of the children with whom
he amused himself was the seventeen
year-Old girl; he gave her every atten-
| tiOn, with the consent of an unsuSpect-
ing idiot of a father; he took her to pic
nics, to balls, to ride, to all places of
amusement, and seemed to thoroughly
enjoy this way Of amusing himself
with the children. This man finally
announced to the father that he was
about to have an exceedingly brilliant
party at4his home, and requested the
presence Of the daughter, which re-
quest was granted, as all previous ones
had been. In party attire the Young
woman left her fathers house, and
that is the last that has been seen of
her. The parents waited day or two
for her return and then began to get
excited about her absence. For two
weeks every effort was made to learn
her whereabouts, but all that has been
accomplished is the arrest of the man
who has been so innOcently amusing
| himself with the children.
There is everything sad about this
case, and vet it is not single one of
its kind. The person most 10 blame,
and one who must keenly suffer for
his neglect, is the father. The most
ordinary kind of Judgment ought to
have been sufficient to have protected
daughter; to teach that a man with
wife could have no good purpose in
giving exclusive attention to a young
lady; to give warning of the hundred
perilS involved, even though the man
was one of exemplary life to all out
ward appearances. The safeguards
about a Young girl cOnnOt be too great,
and although they may deprive her of
a little worthless and dangerous pleas
ure they are, for all her life, the guar
anty of her honor and integrity, and a
woman is poor indeed without the
strongest of these. For the girl her
self, although but seventeen, she was
old enough to know something Of her
own fOOliShneSs and TO realize her dan
ger, and vet she did only what
many another young woman of ma
turer years and quite likely of better
sense has often done. So long as they
can go and come and be forever
whirledin excitement, girls are not
any too often as particular as they
ought to be about the character of
their escort. Y Elan who will take
them freely with open hand and full
purse. n man with dash in cOnVerSa-
tiOn if he doesn't say anything, is all
that is required. They do not think it
worth while ALWAYS To he acquainted
with him, TO know what responsible
ties TO himself or to society may be;
their desire to go OvercomeS all such
curiosity as this, and they put them
selves and their reputation in jeopardy
by the utmost freedom of conduct
with men whom they would in no
sense recognize if they knew them.
The Brooklyn girl had the approval of
hPr DarfnfS To encOuraUa her 9niu0 in
the perilOus way she did. but It often
happens that the going is without the
parents full knowledge, or in spite of
a fathers reasonable precautions, The
number of girls who do these things
ought to lessen materially with the Of
ten published eyperinnces of those who
suffer, but it cannot be expected that
all Young women viii he discreet until
they have all learned the Importance
of resisting the temptation of waltz
or plate VI ice cream under doubtful
circnmstances.-Phiia. Times.