A new conscience and an ancient evil / by Jane Addams.

  • Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
Date:
1912
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new conscience and an ancient evil / by Jane Addams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to offer every opportunity for concealment. So much of the recreation which is provided by commercial agencies, even in its advertisements, deliberately plays upon the interest of sex because it is under such excitement and that of alcohol that money is most recklessly spent. The great human dynamic, which it has been the long effort of centuries to limit to family life, is deliberately utilized for advertising purposes, and it is inevitable that many girls yield to such allurements. On the other hand, one is filled with admira¬ tion for the many immigrant girls who in the midst of insuperable difficulties resist all tempta¬ tions. Such admiration was certainly due Olga, a tall, handsome girl, a little passive and slow, yet with that touch of dignity which a continued mood of introspection so often lends to the young. Olga had been in Chicago for a year living with an aunt who, when she returned to Sweden, placed her niece in a boarding-house which she knew to be thoroughly respectable. But a friendless girl of such striking beauty could not escape the machinations of those who profit by the sale of girls. Almost immediately Olga