The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-25

evenings. rs she vas 49,.
from work, she met anoss.
er in the house. a Spanissss..
man took the lean poclstsu.
OF her hand and opened i
only three pennies. !. !.
This must be the night ,oa y 4
dine-unless you 90 to d ius y
me-" e'nnef
Alverta went. So NM, n
confided to the club Ill.,. A.
self. The rest of her 49,
filled in by Camilla, a yosss !.
| ish girl. who came to ihs r.,
evening and requested d. 10y s's'
Alverta. 1t seemed that !.
few months the Spaniard =. =
Of taking Alverta to dinn., :.
transferred his attention. !.
mille. who also lived in ~.
ing house. The man conas.s|
whole affair to the girI any
her to help him get rid ~ h
BY pretending to be yery :.
He also added that he v,. = !.
trouble might come becau..
verta's extreme youth
Camilla said nothing I'm, .
ly she decided that it Womb
hour later she arrived Al n.
in great indignation.
i have seen the girl" Il.
the director, "and she !.
young. and therefore so -.
pid. The man, too, i, v.,s Y.
He think that l. CamiII.
help him desert this child ~
to have a baby" y
| A Dramatic Rese,A.
Yet another member of th.,.l
saw her chance to rush Ia n.
N"o "a "oi Sex Wnen she
across a young girl in the mia
a heated argument with a mss
corner of a subway station
out the slightest compunctio,
listened to the conversation
heard enough to convince he,
the girl was in serious damn,
approaching the couple boldl,
asked the girl if she could AM,
her a minute.
Listen" she said in some =,
rassment, as she had never
cued anybody before, II would,
with him if l was YOU. You
trust these New York guys. i
amt got any place to 60, yov
come to our club. It's ali ,
You can look it up in the tele,
book"
But how will get rid Of |
asked the girl nervously.
| "Oh, just leave that to me-
ithe G. S. L. member. SAY
claimed, walking up to the ',
man, beat it. This girls 4 /
of mine, and III tell her fau
you don't beat it-quick."
At the club, the rescued a,
whose name was Grace, toll
director that she was is year
that she had met the man ID
first time that evening. that b
taken her to a chop suey re-
ant, and then had asked her
to a dance hall with him.
when they reached the door
so-called dance hall, Grace
sense enough to perceive Il
was a hotel. So she had I
| and fed to the subway st
where the man had FOLLOWED
argued with her.
Grace, it seemed, was Z
delphia girl, who had becon
bellious of parental disciplin
had packed her suitcase an
khome a few days before, aft
family had retired for the
She arrived in New York al
in the morning, and, calling
cab, asked the driver to tax
to a hotel. At a moving p
theatre the following day Sd
another older girl named
who took her to a dancing
Here Grace had danced witt
eral strange men. and had be
structed by Anna in the
picking up men who would
her to the theatre. Grace hal
it for the first time the nigl
was found by the G. S. L.
Der. When Grace's father ca
her, after she had been at tn
, several days. the director va
prised to learn that she was
years old, as she had elaine
only IA.
Thus. from the foregoing.
be seen that women are not
different to the welfare OF
| sex as is commonly suppose
galiantry declines among N
apparently rises among v
For the ideals of these cir
the ideals of the medieval kn
to succor weakness, and esp
the damsel in distress.