The following story would show that mere friendly propinquity may

constitute a danger
The following story would show that mere friendly propinquity may
constitute a danger. Last summer an honest, straightforward girl from a
small lake town in northern Michigan was working in a Chicago caf,
sending every week more than half of her wages of seven dollars to her
mother and little sister, ill with tuberculosis, at home. The mother
owned the little house in which she lived, but except for the vegetables
she raised in her own garden and an occasional payment for plain sewing,
she and her younger daughter were dependent upon the hard-working girl
in Chicago. The girl"s heart grew heavier week by week as the mother"s
letters reported that the sister was daily growing weaker. One hot day
in August she received a letter from her mother telling her to come at
once if she 'would see sister before she died.' At noon that day when
sickened by the hot air of the caf, and when the clatter of dishes, the
buzz of conversation, the orders shouted through the slide seemed but a
hideous accompaniment to her tormented thoughts, she was suddenly
startled by hearing the name of her native town, and realized that one
of her regular patrons was saying to her that he meant to take a night
boat to M. at 8 o"clock and get out of this 'infernal heat.' Almost
involuntarily she asked him if he would take her with him. Although the
very next moment she became conscious what his consent implied, she did
not reveal her fright, but merely stipulated that if she went with him
he must agree to buy her a return ticket. She reached home twelve hours
before her sister died, but when she returned to Chicago a week later
burdened with the debt of an undertaker"s bill, she realized that she
had discovered a means of payment.


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"It appears that in the cases of high (but by no means in that

of the highest) merit, a man must outlive the age of fifty to
be sure of being widely appreciated
"It appears that in the cases of high (but by no means in that
of the highest) merit, a man must outlive the age of fifty to
be sure of being widely appreciated. It takes time for an able
man, born in the humbler ranks of life, to emerge from them and
to take his natural position."[1]


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The girls are attracted to the unregulated dance halls not only by a

love of pleasure but by a sense of adventure, and it is in these places
that they are most easily recruited for a vicious life
The girls are attracted to the unregulated dance halls not only by a
love of pleasure but by a sense of adventure, and it is in these places
that they are most easily recruited for a vicious life. Unfortunately
there are three hundred and twenty-eight public dance halls in Chicago,
one hundred and ninety of them connect directly with saloons, while
liquor is openly sold in most of the others. This consumption of liquor
enormously increases the danger to young people. A girl after a long
day"s work is easily induced to believe that a drink will dispel her
lassitude. There is plenty of time between the dances to persuade her,
as the intermissions are long, fifteen to twenty minutes, and the dances
short, occupying but four or five minutes; moreover the halls are hot
and dusty and it is almost impossible to obtain a drink of water. Often
the entire purpose of the dance hall, with its carefully arranged
intermissions, is the selling of liquor to the people it has brought
together. After the girl has begun to drink, the way of the procurer,
who is often in league with the 'spieler' who frequents the dance hall,
is comparatively easy. He assumes one of two rles, that of the
sympathetic older man or that of the eager young lover. In the character
of the former, he tells 'the down-trodden working girl' that her wages
are a mere pittance and that he can procure a better place for her with
higher wages if she will trust him. He often makes allusions to the
shabbiness or cheapness of her clothing and considers it 'a shame that
such a pretty girl cannot dress better.' In the second rle he
apparently falls in love with her, tells of his rich parents,
complaining that they want him to marry, 'a society swell,' but that he
really prefers a working girl like herself. In either case he
establishes friendly relations, exalted in the girl"s mind, through the
excitement of the liquor and the dance, into a new sense of intimate
understanding and protection.


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