The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-19
NEWS OF TIE BOOK WORLD
Narrative Of the Temptations Of coun-.
try Girl Who Seeks Fame and Fortune
in Large cIty-A Story to Keep Such
Girls In the Country and to Make City
People Think.

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Temptations. of Marguerite, not Confess
sIons Of Marguerite, should have been the
title Ola book, published anonymously by
Rand, .McNally & Coz, revealing with
somewhat crude strength shocking condi-
lions among those upon whom prey
beasts with hoofs in patent leather
temptations We're thrust upon Marguerite
nrst as Chicago art student who had
Ialled TO nnd market for her ffdaubs,' =
had used up her small savings in her de-
Vot1on to her studies, and had become
Well nigh hopeless, embittered by the un-
equal distribution of fate's favors, and
often desperate with hunger. Later they
came 10 her IN accumulated form as a
chorus girl. The picture is not a pleas
ing one, it lacks much in artistic presenta-
tion, vet It is put with force and bears
the earmarks of truth. It is Of no use to
say that Marguerite should have recog-
n Il. !, the hoplessness of her struggle and
iled chicago and. her tempters, for she
did not, and there are hundreds of girls
IKE IL! her VINO do not and are subjected to
IKE temptations An example of the
temptations fitted to the girls grave and
pressing needs and long cherished ambi-
tions, with Mephistophelian astuteness is
tnls py Lothario already welded:
Marguerite, why continue this struggle? You
nave nave put hothouse plant out into the freezing
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aDload-put you In a school where genius is god
dess, to be Worshiped And in ali your radian,
1 peauty you can return heralded. Who will
| for place at your feet who shall frown upon
you! Not the Great Master, for you will have
improved your talent Now you are .burying it
there are food, music and flowers. why hold
to that old Puritanic idea ~ It was always the
enemy OF woman and the dwarfer of man. To-
morrow beautiful apartment shall be yours
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ding; and then, In the spring, we shall g,
| abroad. &&s9ss q
But Marguerite3 was not caught by
spectous promises. She had gone to Chi
cago green girl from the country, but
one OF her own profession who hac
been tried and not found wanting hac
coached her thus:
| Marguerite, If the time should ever come wher
| you are called upon to choose between starvation
and dishonor, starye!
"Have convinced you?'' asked he1
tempter.
eyes, am convineed-that I prefer t.
starve," was the answer
There is a picture Of wine supper
given by one who had money to burn.
Of the girls did not come because tn,
last time she was at that particular res
/ taurant her mother had come in to scrul
1 the floor. Another girl told how the moth
er of a girl who worked in a big store hat
been "nabbed for shoplifting' near he
daughters counter. What had the CIR
done? Tapped on the glass and cried
CASH" A comedian got off this choic,
as the woman said when her husband wa
bit OF humor: Somebody pass the hash
blown up with dynamite
! Revolving? No doubt; but probably no
SO bad as the truth if all had been told.
The confessions are warning of tn,
ugly life that lies before the unprotected
country girl who would seek to make he
/ way alone in a big city and a furthe
i warming to any girl who, caught by tn,
glamor Of the footlights, seeks to becom
q stage dummy ;,