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Show A IMea to Parentfl. Hero is a little "talk" which itiloms to me may bo needed in some hwnes visited by our paper. It is meantt especially es-pecially for homes where there 'nro young daughters, nnd it is not a fancy p'cture as those who have okseved such things enn testify. It is nfter nine o'clock curfew hour; ogling men lean on sidewalk railings and wait nt stccl-cornere. There they come Town the street, arm in arm, two young gir's with fresh, rosy faces. Abundant Abun-dant bruida of hair fall dtw t their backs. Nn'ty lit Lie coaiis come to their shoe-tops. They are siluo'girls in their early teens. Tlieiu is no chaperon chape-ron and no escort. The girls me out alone and thu hour is rather Into. Young men nnd the g rl.-unny be strung era to one another, yet there is some sort of freemasonry botwen them. The glances of the young men are bold;, the eyes of the girls are not tini d as they turn them backward, with the hint.of u smile Flippant words are exchanged. Rut what can oi.i do? If the r uatu ul guardians nro not there to protecr, what right have you to In'erft-ieV Here and there tuny be found a bravo spirit whom n gieat pity will m vO to to stay nnd warn, and take th' r'sk, bu i'ood Snmnr tans are few. And mi , oung ,'rs Infant wi.iivn with i'r a pujn.w.is and powers of woui'iiihood thinking to tread the primroie path of dalliance, go down to ru u. Whose fault is il? Is it tit.- f mil of the girls? Who sont them out into the night or al'uwed them to go uii rocted? U in) failed or neglected to warn ill J ill of t mptation? Who suppose), when they had diesscd their g rl as well as the neighbor's gill, their dutv was done? There is but ono answer to these questions -futher nnd mother |
