When the moment of temptation comes she falls without any palpable resistance; she has no trained educated power of resistance within herself; her whole future hangs, not upon herself, but upon the perfection of the social safeguards by which she is hedged and surrounded." Under the free social order of America to-day much the same results are found.

In an instructive article ("Why Girls Go Wrong," _Ladies' Home Journal_, Jan., 1907) B.B.Lindsey, who, as Judge of the Juvenile Court of Denver, is able to speak with authority, brings forward ample evidence on this head.

Both girls and boys, he has found, sometimes possess manuscript books in which they had written down the crudest sexual things.

These children were often sweet-faced, pleasant, refined and intelligent, and they had respectable parents; but no one had ever spoken to them of sex matters, except the worst of their school-fellows or some coarse-minded and reckless adult.

By careful inquiry Lindsey found that only in one in twenty cases had the parents ever spoken to the children of sexual subjects.