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"Until such time as the better element of society shall constitute itself a unit to protect the innocence of girlhood, just so long will vice continue to prosper." Dr. Lawson's mother again... See full summary

"Until such time as the better element of society shall constitute itself a unit to protect the innocence of girlhood, just so long will vice continue to prosper." Dr. Lawson's mother again read the quotation from "Practical Christianity," then closed her eyes to visualize the scenes of tragedy that prompted its utterance. When her son, Dr. Lawson, returned, a young man whose heart and soul was wrapped in sincere effort to protect girlhood flowers, "too innocent to realize," she showed it to him. She gloried in being the mother of such as he, because she knew his life would go toward creating that unit. A single tenement room became the object of Fate's pitiless visitation; Death called the invalid mother of Mary Fisk, likewise circumstances snatched from the working girl the position through which she eked her frugal existence. Crushed in spirit and bewildered by grief the girl accepted blindly the affected sympathy of a sleek individual who sought to possess a new toy, one whose ...