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Show HOW GIRLS ARE LOST. Salt Lake Police Offlcal Sounds The following, taken from nn ex change, merely reiterates the-oft repeated re-peated warning to young ladtes Of the outlying settlements to shun the larger cities. If heeded it will bo the means of preyenting much sorrow and anguish: ang-uish: "Go home and tell j'our neighbors who have daughters not to let them come to Salt Lake as domestics," was the advice given by a police officer to a gray-haired man from Springvillc who had just found his child in a rooming house with three dlssoluto companions. "Too often," explained the officer, "domestic service is simply tho first step towards a girl's ruin. An enormous enor-mous percentage of the young women who come to Salt Lake to work in prl vato fumllles becomo knowu as fast women. You hear of the temptations encountered by women clerks and sten ograpbers, but I can assure you that for every one of them who goes wrong, a half dozen servant girls full by tho wayside. Every policeman knows this. Thero is no theory about it; it is a fact, and I think it time tha. parents living In tho country should know what their daughters are coming to when they look for work ns domestics. "I don't pretend to say why this happens, hap-pens, but if you want my opinion, I'll tell you that the hired girl is made to feel In most cases that she is different from tho 'young ladles' of tho house. She does not go out with them or meet tholr company, and If she hds company of her own she baa It In the kitchen, or on tho back steps or around tho corner-Sho corner-Sho make's her acqulntnnecs on tho streets and they aro not of the kind an lnnocont girl ought to know. It might bo hard on tho folks In town if. they had to do tholr own work, hftt it wouldn't hurt them any worse than it does tho girls who are ruined, and tho country peoplo who see their own ilesh and blood poisoned and corrupted." Tho girl found yesterday camo from Spring villa about a year acoto work as a domestic, nor father could not hear from her and camo to tho city to look her up. An otllcor found her occupy-Ing occupy-Ing a singlo room in tho Nevada rooming room-ing house in company with two young mon and another girl. Sho 'lookod a picture of degradation and misery and was about to become a mother. Sho consented to go homo with' her heartbroken heart-broken father. |