Excerpt from Holiness to the Lord the Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 26: An Illustrated Magazine, Published Semi Monthly, Designed Expressly for the Education and Elevation of the Young; January 15, 1891 What is this impulse? What is its origin, how can it be made to serve a noble end, or how is it perverted from its natural end into vicious and useless channels? The life of our modern girls and young women is very different to any known condi tions into which the sex have hitherto fallen. The freedom from care and from the heavy but healthy burdens 'imposed by the old-time lack of labor - saving machinery, the rapid growth of arts and sciences, together with the wide-spreading i'dea that the emotions are the only factors of happiness and worth, make a series of pitfalls into which the feet of our youth are continually falling. The young man may dream and enthuse for a while, but the necessity of doing or being something tangi ble in this 'swift living age is early thrust upon him. I am speaking now of affairs as they exist, more particularly in Salt Lake City and one or two large towns of our Territory. And as the greatest danger to our youth exists in these places, and, too, as the city is the great center from which radiate all our views and modes of life, I shall take the liberty of dwell ing more particularly on these same city-con ditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.