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Show MORALITY AND THE SHOP GIRL. Asa body, self-supporting women are wholesome and decent. In every walk of life, a certain proportion of humans are weak and wayward. Sin finds willing listeners throughout the entire social range, and while shops and factories and offices contribute their pro rata share of wantons, wheu ono considers the privations, the hungers, the denials which they suffer suf-fer the hardships they endure the drab, monotonous lives they live It Is a splendid tribute lo the integity or the sex that so few working girls go wrong. . The well-intentioned persons who continually babble about the pitfalls that lie in their paths, overlook the very important fact that idleness is the root of most trouble, and that busy people find least time for temptation. temp-tation. Women t1io drag their aching bodies bod-ies out of bed in the chill gray dawn, keep busy until dusk, and reach home after ten hours of constant activity, are so fagged that the Gay White Way can offer few attractions equal to the Cool White Sheet |