They want a man to be a _man_, to be up to date, to be a man of the world and to go in for that sort of vice, but they don't know, they don't dream, how rotten and disgusting it is.

Oh, I'm not preaching.

I know I'm just as bad as the rest, and I'm going to have a good time while I can, but sometimes when you stop and think, and as Dolly says 'call things by their right names,' why you feel, don't you know--_queer_." "I don't believe, Van," responded young Haight, "that it's _quite_ as bad as you say.

But it's even wrong, I think, that a good girl should know anything about vice at all." "Oh, that's nonsense," broke in Geary; "you can't expect nowadays that a girl, an American girl, can live twenty years in a city and not know things.

Do you think the average modern girl is going to be the absolutely pure and innocent girl of, say, fifty years ago?
Not much; they are right on to things to-day.