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Show Street Temptations. There are parents .who were shocked by the recent revelation of. vices in London, Lon-don, and yet'who.were nnconsious of the fact that they are permitting their own children to be exposed to the same temptations temp-tations that brought the youth of London to ruin. In every city in this country it is usual to find the streets crowded in the evening with young people boys and girls who are treading dangerous paths. Any evening you will find the boys at the corners or lonnging by the doors of saloons listening to the ribald talk of those inside. These boys are in the nursery of crime. The ranks of criminals are being constantly recruited from this class: They grow with marvelous rapidity. Girls in their teens are also found on the streets. You see them going up and down or loitering on the corners by twos or threes; girls of respectable parentage, who- perhaps per-haps have their mothers' consent 'to walk out awhile, not knowing that fre-quent fre-quent by . their actions these young daughters are' encouraging the familiar attentions of '. those scavengers of the; devil, the male flirt1?, whose notice, has' so' often been the forerunner of moral degradation. deg-radation. Whenever a girl chafes at the love guard which a mother's anxiety throws about her she hss started on the downward course, the end of : which is a blasted home, a mother's heart-broken, and a father's head bowed in shame. ' If fathers and mothers wish to save their children they must make their ' homes happy for the boys and girls within them, and thus keep them ont of the street. |