and deaths of shame had they received more toleration
and loving forgiveness in their first steps of error. Many women naturally
pure and virtuous have fallen to the lowest depths because discarded by
friends, frowned upon by society, and sneered at by the world, after they
had taken a single mis-step. Society forgives man, but woman never.

12. IN THE BEGINNING of every girl's downward career there is necessarily a
hesitation. She naturally ponders over what course to take, dreading to
meet friends and looking into the future with horror. That moment is the
vital turning point in her career; a kind word of forgiveness, a mother's
embrace a father's welcome may save her. The bloodhounds, known as the
seducer, the libertine, the procurer, are upon her track; she is trembling
on the frightful brink of the abyss. Extend a helping hand and save her!

13. FATHER, if your daughter goes astray, do not drive her from your home.
Mother, if your child errs, do not close your heart against her. Sisters
and brothers and friends, do not force her into the pathway of shame, but
rather strive to win her back into the Eden of virtue, and in nine cases
out of ten you will succeed. {384}

14. SOCIETY EVILS.--The dance, the theater, the wine-cup, the race-course,
the idle frivolity and luxury of summer watering places, all have a
tendency to demoralize the young.

15. BAD SOCIETY.--Much of our modern society admits libertines and seducers
to the drawing-room, while it excludes their helpless and degraded victims,
consequently it is not strange that there are skeletons in many closets,
matrimonial infelicity and wayward girls.

16. "'KNOW THYSELF,' says Dr. Saur, "is an important maxim for us all, and
especially is it true for girls.

"All are born with the desire to become attractive--girls especially want
to grow up, not only attractive, but beautiful. Some girls think that
bright eyes, pretty hair and fine clothes alone make them beautiful. This
is not so. Real beauty depends upon good health, good manners and a pure
mind.

"As the happiness of our girls depends upon their health, it behoves us all
to guide the girls in such a way as to bring forward the best of results.

17. "THERE IS NO ONE who stands so near the girl as the mother. From early
childhood she occupies the first place in the little one's confidence--she
laughs, plays, and corrects, when necessary, the faults of her darling. She
should be equally ready to guide in