| Show RUINED BY FICTION women lives lire are am marred aim red by the 11 rodal of Ile niclous novels novell what does a young girl know of life save what she hoara hears and reads I 1 would rather remarks a correspondent of tho the atlanta constitution tako take an innocent innocenc t young creature through tho the worst part ot of now york city at midnight than put lad bad books into her white hands bands there is little romance or allurement in naked human vice but vice alco clothed with a poets fancy beautified by the imagination is another sort of thing there is so much in a girls com commencing mene right in tho the things she reads it is often the making or marring of her whole future life thero there aro are women today to day forty years old astl still 11 living in the peT pernicious niclous books they read they started with bad books in their they followed bad heroines and may according to their now diseased minds find themselves an improvement pro on tho the creatures they imitate they are arc if not actively vicious silly unnatural creatures whom everybody ridicules and nobody respects I 1 know a young woman who has been acting inglut out french novels all her days to the best of her ability with tho the result of dressing like a guy when she means to bo be artistic acting like a coarse woman an when she means to boa bo a siren alren I 1 and talking absurdities when she imea meana to be en enchanting chatting |
