Show RUINED BY FICTION women icho alvea are marred by the perusal novels what docs a young girl know of life save hears and reads 1 would rather remarks a correspondent of tho atlanta constitution fako an innocent young creature through the worst part put baal books into ner chite hands thice is little romance or allurement in naked human vice but vico clothed with a poets fancy tho imagination is another sort of thing there is so much in a girls commencing right in tho things ahe reads it is often the malting or marring of her whole future life there aro woman today to day forty years old living in the pernicious books they read they started with bad books in their teens they followed bad heroines and may according to their now diseased disei sed minds find themselves an improvement pro on the creatures they imitate they are if not actively vicious silly unnatural creature whom everybody ridicules and nobody respects I 1 know a young woman who has been acting out french novels all her days to the best of her ability with the result of dressing like a guy when sho means to be artistic acting like a coarse woman when sho means to be a siren and talking absurdities when sho means to be enchanting |