There are no women, though the female sex is personated.

This has its advantages.

Woman is kept out of harm; she is not subject to the indignities and temptations which beset her among other peoples who employ her services.

Of course there are good and virtuous women on the stage--very many, I trust! But it will be admitted that the life of an actress is one of trial.
She must of necessity be brought into intercourse with an element whose moral ideals are not the loftiest, and she must have unusual strength of character to preserve her integrity.

She can do it! I believe that men and women can resist temptation in all spheres, in all vocations of life; I have great faith in humanity, especially when sustained by divine helps; but we must not subject the bow to too much tension lest it break.