ABANDONED WOMEN THE BEST DANCERS.
The most accomplished and most perfect dancers are to be found among the abandoned women. Why? Because they are graduates of dancing schools.
If any should wish to ascertain the truth of this let him ask the girls themselves.
I have for several months been working in a Mission of Los Angeles, and where I have before seen causes at work, I have now had ample opportunity of seeing the effect, and I have often heard some of these unfortunate ones cry out in bitter anguish "Would to God that I had never entered a dancing school."
The following 200 were cases of girls who are to-day inmates of the brothel whom I talked with personally. They were frank to answer to my questions in regard to the direct cause of their downfall, and I gathered that these were ruined by:
Dancing school and ball rooms 163
Drink given by parents 20
Willful choice 10
Poverty and abuse 7
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200
I know of a select dancing school where in a course of three months eleven of its victims are brothel inmates to-day.