Show i i i too sharp to be caught innocence is is a beautiful attribute of you youn ng womanhood but if innocence and worldly wisdom are incompatible we prefer kerer r rather ather to see young girls sufficiently world wise to escape the snares and pit f alls falla with which all large cities abound than to be so innocent as is to walk unsuspectingly into dangerous places and to their own destruction A short time ago a young girl looking ronn rona oura forn position by which she might earn livelihood noticed an advertisement ostensibly of an unmarried lady of means who wished ita ila a young woman as companion armin arming herself with references the youw youn z girl alluded to I 1 made lier her way to tile tho house indicated indicted in the advertisement and ringing at it the doorma door wa shown into a darkened parlor the walls of which when she became aecus accustomed tomed to the dim light M sho she to her horror found covered with pictures of the most obscene and disgusting character abonce at once being a city bred girl she sho compre bended that she had been decoyed decayed into a house of ill iii fame and without walting waiting for the advent of the mistress orthe of the establishment whom she had been told would seed peo pee her in a few minutes she proceeded to the tho door intending to depart without giving any notice to the inmates of the den to her she found ohe the door firmly fastened and the key withdrawn from the lock nothing daunted silo pulled the bell wire arid and thus bi brought ought out the servant key in hand haud who had let ler her in when the girl saw her she in lit a sharp voice says get back bach to the parlor wid ye what aro yes bohil do m liere here 1 I only came to speak to my brother who is waiting t outside said baid tho the young girl na with ith ath rare presence of mind and with great quickness she snatched the key placed it in the lock and opening the door ran speedily down the steps and out into the street and scarcely lessened her speed until she came up with a police officer to whom she told her story and obtained a promise that he would keep his eye on the house into which she had been entrapped and see that no other young woman entered therein now the girl thus escaping from a well weil known den of infamy was a city girl sharp and world wise had she been 1 a I country lass innocent and ignorant the adventure might have had 1 a I different termination I 1 and another recruit would have probably been beeri added to the great army of fallen women many of whom have haye been snared to their own ruin philadelphia sund sunday aly damn dawn |