CHAPTER IV.

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