Evening journal., 1916-01-08


get out OF it. making cases for the di- 4
vorcc courts, we are convinced that
some one ought to speak out on this ,
subject with no uncertain sound.
Scarcely a day that you do not read
about an elopement. and you never in /
your life knew of an elopement that
turned out well. In many counties
there is one divorce for every three
marriages. In the last twenty years.
IN this country. more than half mill
lion divorces were granted Five hun
dred thousand children in our land do
not have in the home the presence OF
both the living parents. All this shows
there is something radically wrong in
modern society It is estimated that
there are in this country, more than
100000 fallen girls and women living
a life infinitely worse than death and
more than a million fallen men. And
a fallen man is just as bad in Gods
sight. and should be regarded in hui
man sight. as fallen woman. This
white slave traffic is rapidly on the
increase The vice commission in Chi
cago reported at least thirty million
dollars is expended upon licentious-
ness in that city every year. Like its
/ twin brother Of hell. the liquor busi-
I ness. il thrives both upon appetite and
averice and these two make a COM
/ bination that is hard to break.
/ We all sympathise with every well
directed effort for the cure Of the So
cial evil. II is a great work that is
being done by the Flomnce Crittenton
homes and the rescue department OF
! the Women's Christian Temperance
Union. to uplift and save the poor
unfortunate girls. But in dealing
with the social evil one ounce OF
1 prevention is worth many pounds OF
cure 1t is better to have a fence al
! fhc top OF a precipice than a hospital
at the bottom. There is a great diff
ference between innocence and vir-
tue. Innocence is purity plus ignor-
ance, but virtue is purity plus knowl-
edge. Fathers should have plain
talks with their sons, and mothers
with their daughters, warming them
CT the pitfalls and shoals OF modern
society.
Every girl, as we'll as every boy.
| should be taught some means of
earning an honest living Many a
girl who has been reared in COM
fort, even luxury. but when her par
ents die or have financial reverses.
she is thrown out on a cold unsym-
pathetic world with a desire for
dress and display created and no way
to satisfy IT, and all about her hui
man vultures just waiting to Dounce
upon her the first opportunity. Is il
any wonder that so many girls 20
wrong" Many parents are woefully
careless about the kind OF associates
their children have, they allow their
girls to be out on the street until late.
or off on JOY rides. or lOlling in the
summer hammock till after midnight
II anyone Of a lot OF fellows that /
.know would come to call upon
daughter OF NINE I would want
shotgun aimed at him every minute
ne was in her company.
. Moreover, there is many a woman
that will turn her back upon a poor
J girl that has made a misstep and call
her an outcast and like the priests
and Levites of old. will draw up her
,robes OF self-righteousness about
her and pass on the other side Of
the road. She will speak Of the poor
girl as ruined" A girl who has gone
wrong is no more ruined in Gods
sight than the man that has done
wrong. Yet this same woman will
receive with open arms, in so-called
high society. the young fellow who
was the cause of the betrayal OF that
poor girl Where did this double
, standard in society originate that will
condone the one and condemn the
/ other? That says that women and
girls must keep themselves pure and
virtuous. but a young man can 90 out
and saturate his life with the worst
moral depravity and afterwards can
change and lead to the marriage altar
some pure girl and settle down TO be
an upright respectable husband? No
blacker lie was ever spewed forth
, from the pit Of hell than that. There
is but one standard worthy OF our
/ modern civilization and that is a
white life for two.- We should de-
mand the same standard of men as of
, women.
II is one OF the strangest facts of
! modern society life that women them
, selves have often been guilty of
, recognizing a double standard in
, morals. Just as much or even more
, so than have men. A pastor recently
:. sent out fifty letters to leading
, society young women. asking them
, what was their ideal OF a young man
; to become their husband. He also
r sent out letters TO fifty young men
asking them what was their ideal OF
a young woman whom they wanted
to be their wife. All OF these were
, TO send in their replies unsigned. SO
Z each was to be free to express his or
, her honest opinions. Strange to say
, the ideals of the young man as to
I what a young woman was to be, was
, vastly higher than the ideals Of the
, young women of what a young man
} ought to be- Shame on American
1 womanhood of these standards and
!. opinions are anything like universal.
I But" said young woman TO me
recently. I'VE girls cannot put tho
e standard too high for the young mer
= that seek our company" Why not?
p asked. Because" she said. "if We
: do. they will go off with some other
girl" Well" said |. then let then
n go. You are better off without then
than you arc with them, unless they
are living a life that is clean and up
right" Better young women, a
thousand times better. that like Fran
els Willard. the uncrowned queen o.
American democracy. that you gC
down to you death alone in the purit.
OF your womanhood than to tie your
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