| Show I 1 WICKED advertisements there are demons walking up and down in the earth whose especial object la Is to destroy chist chastity ity some of them at least are provided with bodice in the ordinary human form but they represent a horribly degraded type off 0 therace abe race A favorite method borac tor accomplishing comp lishing their diabolical designs la is to publish alluring advertisements iava such journals as an will sell space for the purpose incredible BB as it may maye eem there are journals that lay claim to decency and to a character that justifies their admission into the bomea of decent people which for a few conte will risk becoming accessory to the ruin of any number of pure young persons by publishing such advertisements the proc procuress urese or the lecherous villain who is seeking fresh victims will say aay in an advertisement that a gentleman of means desires to meet an attractive young lady or will use words of similar import some giddy girl who has not been properly instructed or disciplined or who perhaps has no thought of anything more than a little fun fud answers the ad ija vertle ement she thus places herself to a greater or less extent under the infernal laell of the wretch who la in seeking her destruction if she carries her folly far enough to to an interview she throws herself into the maelstrom and the chances chaples are against her ever again return returning inz stainless to the ahli walks of innocence an advert advertisement let printed j n a paper which is read in her home has beehr the means of 01 1 destroying her body a and oua faoul and agthe the suf suffering tring inep involved wod bitiah a ain roto had a never won told avy hemath ton tongue glas it is ia tone of the anomalies of journalism that a paper will publish an advertise ment of this character and than enliven its ita news BOWS columns with a description of the results that have flowed from it coupled with moralizing moral izing remarks upon such aoh advertisements and what they lead to our ige age Is ia preeminently pre eminently characterized toy by sexual corruption and by a multiplicity of agencies that tend to spread it next to we the wish that all men anen and women were nure dure comes the wish that all would aid in checking impurity but when journals of large and general circulation in consideration of a dime or two will consent to make their columns one of the most moat effective of all known meana for spreading aprea dinn on bin hame bhame and ruin hope in human nature sinks and the pessimist finds fimple ample argument the moral to which all this points is twofold two fold let parents discriminate as to the character of the literature they admit into their homes and let them train their sons and daugh daughter terp the latter especially to shun as they would blut bint invitation or suggestion of the legitimate purpose of which there can be any doubt |
