Analyzed, it was a logical consequence of the social and political conditions under which the boys had been brought up.

In a pretty, rich, busy town of 30,000 people proud of its churches and its schools, _eighty saloons_ industriously plied their business--and part of their business, as it always is, was to train youths to become their patrons.
What were the women doing in the town?
I asked the question of one who knew it.

"Why," he said, "they were doing just what women do everywhere, no better, no worse.

They had their clubs; I suppose a dozen literary clubs, several sewing clubs, several bridge clubs, and a number of dancing clubs.

I think they cared a little more for bridge than for literature, many of them at least.