WARNING TO YOUNG WOMEN.
By Editor
IT is becoming more and more apparent that our great expositions are not an unmixed benefit to the country. It is coming to be realized that the soul-destroying influence of the all-round dissipation connected with the season of display and speculation and intemperate indulgence of all kinds far more than offsets the financial benefit to a few unscrupulous individuals and the advertising of some special city. Viewing the matter from the standpoint of moral loss rather than from a consideration of gratified curiosity and city advertising, we reproduce an expression from the St. Louis Christian Advocate:— We would be very glad to impress upon our brothers of the country press the great danger that lies in wait for the multitude of young girls that are flocking to St. Louis, and notably at this time. The country press is a tremendous power of good, and if they would keep this matter before their readers, constantly warning all as to this open door to ruin, many might be saved who otherwise would be lost. The gateway of St. Louis is the great union depot, which is beset with a thousand snares for unwary feet. Any young girl who comes through the gate into the midway is at once spotted, and if it be possible, snares will be spread in her path that she can not escape. No girl should come here unless absolutely certain as to her course. The many tempting advertisements are often mere baits for the ignorant and innocent. If she comes to the city to enter the first carriage whose driver proposes to take her to a good cheap boarding place, or to accept the first situation where "no experience is required," she may as well bid adieu to innocence and hope, and, as a matter of course, the young man is almost equally exposed, so far as moral or even physical safety is concerned. If the country papers will keep these things before their readers, they will serve God and humanity.