River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26
Mrs. John A. Logan on Young
People
copyrighted by w. r. Hearst.)
Continued from last weekly

NOOntlHueu from last Week.)
Women come TO think that the
swagger and coarseness of men
who come into their presence in
their sweaters, with the ever ac-
companying cigarettes, are not so
bad after all, and hold them guilt
less of offense or disrespect, be-
cause they know they have lowered
their own standards OF dignity by
their want of fastidious attention
to their mode of dress and careless
manners.
These as you please" ways of
society are far-reaching in their
deleterious effects. Men think
nothing of publicly saluting their
female acquaintance in the most
familiar way joining them on the
street, promenading and lettering
about the parks and places of re-
sort as if they were members of the
same household.
Numerous young women bedeck
themselves in all their gorgeousness
and walk up and down the streets
and avenues of the towns and cities,
knowing they will pass places fire.
quented by young men, purposely
designing to attract their attention,
and, if possible inveigle them into
joining them, many times expecting
that the young men will invite them
into some place for refreshments
over which they spend hours in
silly twaddle over nothings, ignor-
ing the fact that they have forfeited
their claims to responsibility.
In this way women, sometimes of
very mature years, become irretriev-
ably entangled with young men
who sooner or later become Olsen
chanted and throw them aside,
while the young men are so demon
allied themselves by the association
of such women chat they are ruined
and must pay the penalty of wrong
doing by the loss of confidence in
their integrity and devotion to their
business or profession.
The Unsuitable revenge of their
victims demanding in some cases
life itself, as examplified a while
ago within the shadow of the dome
of the National capitol, and more
recently in the case of Walter
Brooks, who, if reports are true,
was a victim of the wiles of a way
ward girl.
Mothers, teachers and guardians
are directly responsible for such
tragedies by allowing their daugh-
tiers to go about unattended by
chaperon. 1t is surprising that so
many young women escape entrap-
ment by the many pitfalls laid for
them as they go about alone in the
most crowded thoroughfares of
large and small cities, pushing and
showing their way till they attain
what they desire-sometimes a
nothing, not worth the exposure of
their pretty faces to the lecherous
eyes ever on the alert for beauty.
If in the discharge of duty a
young woman must go abroad alone,
she can protect herself from intru-
sion by dignified reserve that all
men respect. If she dresses simply
and preserves a modest demeanor
she can always depend upon the
gal1antry of men whom she meets
if anything should occur which
would require their assistance or
protection.
AS a rule this class of women
have no trouble, but command the
respect of all their masculine &C.
quaintances. 1t is the leisure class
of both sexes who come under the
maxim There is always something
evil for idle hands to do"
We trust that the alarm has been
sounded everywhere and that pa
rents and guardians will awaken to
a realizing sense of their moral re-
sponsibility for the rising genera
ton, and that they will know where
their sons and wards and daugh-
tiers are at all times, until they are
safely launched in the resistless
tide of human affairs. New York
Journal.