Show YESTERDAY WAS appointed for a congress con-gress in New York to which Social Purity and White Cross organizations were invited in-vited to send delegates No report of the proceedings has yet reached us The object ob-ject as we understand it is to formulate an opposition to state laws which assume to regulate the social evil and thereby compromise with vice as the promoters I promot-ers put it In many cities of Europe efforts have been made and with considerable consid-erable success to fix boundaries outside of which prostitution and its outward signs and invitations must beconfinedj to prohibit street walking and solicitation and even to place the evil under medical supervision Sentimental notions have however restrained the spread of this practical municipal reform and it has never been effectually tried inYflis country coun-try except in St Louis where though the results were generally satisfactory feminine femi-nine influence demanded and secured its repeal |