rely, no. Home
is a sphere alien to the harlot's estate. See such an one wherever you
may--she is a fallen outcast from woman's high estate. Her existence--for
she does not live--now culminates in one dread issue, viz., prostitution.
She sleeps, but awakes a harlot. She rises in the late morning hours, but
her object is prostitution; she washes, dresses, and braids her hair, but
it is with one foul purpose before her. To this end she eats, drinks, and
is clothed. To this end her house is hidden and the blinds are drawn.

8. LOST FOREVER.--To this end she applies the unnatural cosmetique, and
covers herself with sweet perfumes, which vainly try to hide her disease
and shame. To this end she decks herself with dashing finery and tawdry
trappings, and with bold, unwomanly mien essays the streets of the great
city. To this end she is loud and coarse and impudent. To this end she is
the prostituted "lady," with simpering words, and smiles, and glamour of
refined deceit. To this end an angel face, a devil in disguise. There is
one foul and ghastly purpose towards which all her energies now tend. So
low has she fallen, so lost is she to all the design of woman, that she
exists for one foul purpose only, viz., to excite, stimulate, and gratify
the lusts of degraded, ungodly men. Verily, the word "prostitute" has an
awful meaning. What plummet can sound the depths of a woman's fall who has
become a harlot?

9. SOUND THE ALARM.--Remember, young man, you can never rise above the
degradation of the companionship of lewd women. Your virtue once lost is
lost forever. Remember, young woman, your wealth or riches is your good
name and good character--you have nothing else. Give a man your virtue and
he will forsake you, and you will be forsaken by all the world. Remember
that purity of purpose brings nobility of character, and an honorable life
is the joy and security of mankind.

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The Curse of Manhood.

[Illustration: THE GREAT PHILANTHROPIST.]

1. MORAL LEPERS.--We cannot but denounce in the strongest terms, the
profligacy of many married men. Not content with the moderation permitted
in the divine appointed relationship of marriage, they become adulterers,
in order to gratify their accursed lust. The man in them is trodden down by
the sensual beast which reigns supreme. These are the moral outlaws that
make light of this scandalous social iniquity, and by their damnable
examp