Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
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Civilization.

hall with him for a restaurant, be-
cause, as he truthfully says, she is
exhausted and in need of food. AT
the supper, however, she drinks much
more. and it is not surprising that
she is at last persuaded that it is too
late to go home and in the end con-
sents to spend the rest OF the night
in a nearby lodging house.
Exploiting the Children of the Very
Poor.
The unregulated amusement parks
are apparently most dangerous to lit
tie girls II or IA years old. who are
childishly eager for amusement, and
totally unable to pay for ride on the
scenic railway, or for ticket to an
entertainment. They easily accept
many favors from the young men
who are standing near the entrances
for the express purpose of finding dis
appointed children. The reward
which is demanded from the girls
later in the evening, after they have
enjoyed the many treats" which the
amusement park offers, apparently
seems of little moment.
The DisreputabIe Theatrical Agency
And its Deceptive Advertisements.
The older girls attending the cheap
theaters and the vaudeville shows are
most commonly approached through
their vanity.
The methods pursued on excursion
boats are similar to those of the dance
halls, in that decent girls are induced
to drink quantities of liquor to which
they are unaccustomed. On the high
seas liquor is usually sold in original
packages, which enormously increases
the amount consumed. It is not I'M
usual to see a boy and girl drink,
between them, an entire bottle of
whiskey. 81
Some of these excursion boats carry
5000 people and in the easy break
down of propriety which holiday-maR-
ing often implies and in the absence
of police, to which city young people
are unaccustomed, the utmost freedom
and license are often INDUCED in.
In spite of the fact that domestic
service is always suggested by the
average woman as an alternative for
he working-girl whose life is beset
with danger, the federal report on
Women and Child Wage-earners in
the United States" gives the occupa-
ton of the majority of girls who go
wrong as that of domestic service,
and in this it confirms the experience
of every matron in a rescue home. The
report suggests that the danger comes
from the general conditions of work.
'sThese general conditions are the
loneliness of the life, the lack OF op-
portunities for making friends and
securing recreation and amusement in
l-safe surroundings, the monotonous
and uninteresting nature of the work
done as these unframed girls do 1t,
the lack of external stimulus to pride
and self-respect, and the absolutely
unguarded state of the girl except
when directly under the eye of her
mistress"
The LONELINESS and Isolation Of the
Girl in Domestic Service.
In addition to these reasons, the
girls realize that the opportunities
for marriage are fewer in domestic
(service than in other occupations. The
girls mistress knows that for her own
1 daughters mutual interests and re
creation are the natural foundations
for friendships with young men
friendships which may or may not
lead to marriage but which are the
prerogative of every young girl. The
mistress does not, however, apply this
worldly wisdom to the maid" in hel
service. .@h
/ The majority Of domestics are en-
ployed In families where there is only
one, and the tired and dispirited girl
often without a taste for reading
spends many lonely hours. III
No Mercy Shown to the Servant ir
Disgrace
A surprising number Of suicides oc
cur among girls who have been II
domestic service when they discover
that they have been betrayed by theil
lovers. Perhaps nothing is more
astonishing than the attitude of lhs
mistress when the situation of sucf
a forlorn girl is discovered, and III
would be interesting to know how fal
this attitude has influenced these girls
either to suicide or to the equally
reckless choice of disreputable life
whihc statistics show so many O
their number have elected. The mis-
tress almost always promptly dis