The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-30
LAURA JEAN LIBBY'S DAILY TALKS HEART TOPICS Copyrighted Mcclure Newspaper
VICE AND VIRTUE.

''vfce is a monster of so frightful To be hated needs but to be seen: Yet seen too oft, familiar with its face,
 We first endure. then pity. then en- brace"
 There Is always sorrow in my heart. never scorn, when hear of girl young in years who has erred and never been enabled to find her way back from the primrose path she en- tered to the rugged, straight and mar row way the good are treading.
 Those who do not know the history of that one poor heart that sinned and suffered, the struggles and tempta- tfons she passed through, the pressure of want, the falsity of those whom she trusted, the shfpwreck of her affec- tions should not judge her unheard. The problem of the working girl whose path is beset by dangers little dreamed of by the majority of women offers a grave situation for readjustment. The women who employ young, innocent, inex xperienced girls in their households should have their attention called to the grave error on their part of 1eav- ing such girls in their homes unpro- tected while they go off summering. we are keeping the h6use open for my son. one woman will complaoently tell another, adding: Annie will have scarcely anything to do except cook for him and keep his room in order. He may bring home a young friend to pass a few days with him now and then, but the young men are scarcely any trouble. Annie may thank her stars that I do not close up the house, which would ob1ige her to secure an- other place during the summer
 It would be a thousand times better for many an Annie if they sought new places rather than remain under such conditions, especially if she has beau ty combined with innocence and an all-too-trustfu1 nature. Many a youth is an angel for all that his folks know concerning him, a model young man in the home under parental eyes, but quite a different person among those of his kind, will all restraint removed. Left to his own devices, many a son of a good family commences the dig ging of a pit for his own feet quite as soon as mother ano father have turned their backs on home. With hilarious lcompanionS, he starts in to have a good time. His comrades comment on the good looks of Annie-the redness of her cheeks, the brightness of her eyes and trimness of her figure. If young master and his. guests choose to have midnight lunch, Annie must be there to prepare it for them. Annie is praised for her cake, >fattered by attention An intimacy, hitherto unthought of, springs up. There are no fellow workers about with whom Annie may take counsel, no older wo-
 man to warn her to beware, take care. | The mother is the last one to whom Annie can tell the story of misadven- l.
 ture when she returns. The son sug-
 gests to his mother that he would ad-
 wise Annie's being turned off-he Is
 sure she has formed the drink habit The girl is promptly discharged. She goes from bad to worse. Whose fault is it? The mother would not have Jeff
 one of her own daughters in peril from close association with wild young men alone, unprotected. yet she took nc Ipains to safeguard another girl just as young and innocent. | All young men are not wolves ir lsheeps clothing, seeking whom they may devour; probably not one in five hundred is not all that he should be
 but it is difficult to select that one from the many. Therefore all inno
 cent girls should be safeguarded from
 dangers that menace them even a
 home.