The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-10-03
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For the Cairo Bulletin.
"THERE Is DANGER In IT."

dered that you or some Oh your cohtripitors
have not long before this, raised a voice
against it through the columns Of The Bull
LETIN. was very much pleased therefore
at the article "There is danger in it, that
appeared in your last Sundays ISSUE and I
wish every mother in town would read it
and heed it also.
1t certainly is bad enough to allow boys
to remain on the streets until a late hour of
the night, and parents who suffer their
little sons Of tender age to thus be ex-
posed to danger, vice and wickedness, are
most deserving Of censure; and the time will
be when there will come terrible recken-
ing to those parents who are thus direlect
in the duty they owe their boys. But oh!
what can | say to mothers to arouse them
to a sense of their duty, who will permit
their innocent girls to expose themselves to
the dangers and temptations which may as
sail them in their night walks on the streets,
unprotected by any male relatlvet How /
shudder for those poor unsuspecting girls
when | pass them on my way to some place
of worship or entertainment, long after
dark, as hear them accosted, and see them
stop to converse on the street corners with
young men whose morals are far from good,
and records any thing but clear, who are
lying IN wait for just such young unsus-
pecting victims! How gladly would reach
forth my motherly arms and gently draw
them back from the edge Of the frightful
precipice on which their feet so uncon-
sciouSly stand But would they heed
my warning cry, or would it be
possible for any one to arouse them to a
sense Of their danger when their own
mothers have failed to teach them the i'm
propriety Of such coursel "Oh we don't
mean any HARM" they would say. I'VE
like to talk and joke with the boys and get
up little street firtations.' But let me tell
you, my dear girls, even if most fortunately
no real harm ever comes to you from this
departure from maidenly modesty, young
men, although they will talk and laugh
and Halter you when they overtake you on
your night walks, still they do not respect
you, nor are you the girls they would
choose for their wives, and could YOU hear
the remarks they make aboutyou after one
of those street interviews, you would shud-
der and grow pale with rage.
But it is the mothers that are most TO
blame. We should teach our childlen, and
especially impress this upon the minds Of
our girls, that it is both dangerous and i'm
modest to walk on the streets without a
suitable escort, after dark. Let us not be
afraid of beginning too early to teach this
important fact to our little ones, even if we
begin when they are little toddlers around
our feet. This impression will then grow
up with them, and they will never forget it;
and the life of some daughters may be
saved from frightful wreck and the heart
of some mothers from breaking.
1t is also question in the writer's mind
whether ladies who employ white servant
girls, will not have something to answer on
this score, as we'll as some thoughtless,
negligent or over indugent mothers True,
if the poor girl we have in our employ is
led astray and deserted; then is turned from
our doors as thing too vile even for us to
come in contact with, and she, feeling her
self an out-cast from ali that is good and
pure, takes up life Of open shame--true
this brings no disgrace to us nor casts no
shadow on our household; but has it ever
occurred to your mind, my tender-hearted
Christian lady, that you might, by little
good advice and motherly interest, have
saved this poor girl from her ignominious
fate And may you not have to answer
for your carelessness in not having tried to
save her from this fate, when you stand at
the Great Bar? Are we not too selfish IN
such matters, and are we not too willing to
shirk all responsibility OF the conduct of
young girls we employ, never thinking or
caring how or with whom they spend
their evenings even until late in the night
if they only do our work well in the day
time? Are we doing, by this young girl in
our employ, just as we would wish some
lady to do by our own precious child, had
fate decreed that she should have been
placed in the same position Of our servant
girl7 How many ladies do you suppose we
can find who employ white girls that try to
devise some plan that is pleasant and
profitable to tempt their servant girls to
spend their evenings at home instead Of on
the street or perhaps, in worse place. Does
any member of the family ever think to
converse kindly with her for few minutes
after herwork is done, thus showing her that
you have some interest in her happiness and