dish for convalescents and
pregnant women, where the stomach rejects solid food.

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Save the Girls.

[Illustration: GOOD ADVICE FROM GRANDPA.]

1. PUBLIC BALLS.--The church should turn its face like flint against the
public ball. Its influence is evil, and nothing but evil. It is a well
known fact that in all cities and large towns the ball room is the
recruiting office for prostitution.

2. THOUGHTLESS YOUNG WOMEN.--In cities public balls are given every night,
and many thoughtless young women, {381} mostly the daughters of small
tradesmen and mechanics, or clerks or laborers, are induced to attend "just
for fun." Scarcely one in a hundred of the girls attending these balls
preserve their purity. They meet the most desperate characters,
professional gamblers, criminals and the lowest debauchees. Such an
assembly and such influence cannot mean anything but ruin for an innocent
girl.

3. VILE WOMEN.--The public ball is always a resort of vile women who
picture to innocent girls the ease and luxury of a harlot's life, and offer
them all manner of temptations to abandon the paths of virtue. The public
ball is the resort of the libertine and the adulterer, and whose object is
to work the ruin of every innocent girl that may fall into their clutches.

4. THE QUESTION.--Why does society wonder at the increase of prostitution,
when the public balls and promiscuous dancing is so largely endorsed and
encouraged?

5. WORKING GIRLS.--Thousands of innocent working girls enter innocently and
unsuspectingly into the paths which lead them to the house of evil, or who
wander the streets as miserable outcasts all through the influence of the
dance. The low theatre and dance halls and other places of unselected
gatherings are the milestones which mark the working girl's downward path
from virtue to vice, from modesty to shame.

6. THE SALESWOMAN, the seamstress, the factory girl or any other virtuous
girl had better, far better, die than take the first step in the path of
impropriety and danger. Better, a thousand times better, better for this
life, better for the life to come, an existence of humble, virtuous
industry than a single departure from virtue, even though it were paid with
a fortune.

7. TEMPTATIONS.--There is not a young girl but what is more or less tempted
by some unprincipled wretch who may have the reputation of a genteel
society man. It behooves parents to guard carefully the morals o