Many indeed who live in
hostels have almost no choice between walking in the streets or going
to bed. There is no need to say more. First girls are rendered
nervously weary and yet eager for fresh air and movement, and then they
have to face all that street life may mean. The recreations offered
them in cinemas and music-halls are often calculated to give them just
the wrong sort of excitement. And so first they are bored by monotony
and long hours, and then played upon by rather low forms of suggestive
art. It is here that girls' clubs and troops of girl guides meet the
real needs of girls; and they probably constitute the finest influence
of the right sort which modern life offers them.
_Luxury_
One of the most serious evils in the modern world is that a great many
men and women have far more money than is good for them, and that of
these a considerable number are not under any necessity to work.
Nothing in all the wide world is worse for a man than to have lots of
money and nothing to do. It is among these men that the patrons of
expensive vice are to be found.
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