fit, while seductive indulgence blights and ruins.

2. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.--A man or woman cannot long live an impure life
without sooner or later contracting disease which brings to every sufferer
not only moral degradation, but often serious and vital injuries and many
times death itself becomes the only relief.

3. SHOULD IT BE REGULATED BY LAW?--Dr. G. J. Ziegler, of Philadelphia, in
several medical articles says that the act of sexual connection should be
made in itself the solemnization of marriage, and that when any such single
act can be proven against an unmarried man, by an unmarried woman, the
latter be at once invested with all the legal privileges of a wife. By
bestowing this power on women very few men would risk the dangers of the
society of a dissolute and scheming woman who might exercise the right to
force him to a marriage and ruin his reputation and life. The strongest
objection of this would be that it would increase the temptation to destroy
the purity of married women, for they could be approached without danger of
being forced into another marriage. But this objection could easily be
harmonized with a good system of well regulated laws. Many means have been
tried to mitigate the social evils, but with little encouragement. In the
city of Paris a system of registration has been inaugurated and houses of
prostitution are under the supervision of the police, yet prostitution has
not been in any degree diminished. Similar methods have been tried in other
European towns, but without satisfactory results.

4. MORAL INFLUENCE.--Let it be an imperative to every clergyman, to every
educator, to every statesman and to every philanthropist, to every father
and to every mother, to impart that moral influence which may guide and
direct the youth of the land into the natural channels of morality,
chastity and health. Then, and not till then, shall we see righteous laws
and rightly enforced for the mitigation and extermination of the modern
house of prostitution.

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The Selfish Slaves of Doses of Disease and Death.

[Illustration: A TURKISH CIGARETTE GIRL.]

1. MOST DEVILISH INTOXICATION.--What is the most devilish, subtle alluring,
unconquerable, hopeless and deadly form of intoxication, with which science
struggles and to which it often succumbs; which eludes the restrictive
grasp of legislation; lurks behind lace curtains, hides in luxurious
boudoirs,