PERILS RUN BY YOUNG ENGLISH DANCING GIRLS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12519, 22 April 1909, Page 4

PERILS RUN BY YOUNG ENGLISH DANCING GIRLS.

Social workers in England have for many years been striving to cope with the very grave scandal affecting the welfare of hundreds of young English girls who are induced to acccept employment on the Continent and in the United States and South America, but have always been confronted with great difficulties, which they recognise can only be removed by the introduction of comprehensive legislation. Definite steps are now being taken with the object of achieving this end. This is indicated by Mrs Bramwell Booth in a letter to the "Times," in which she writes : —

"Young women and girls from fourteen to twenty-one years of age are introduced to Continental theatres and music halls from this country under circumstances which leave no doubt as t) the purpose of. many of those who carry on the business.

"I saw a few clays ago, in a Continental city, young English girls — in age and appearance scarcely more than children — who are subject to hours of labour, indignities, and temptations which I can only describe as both shameful and cruel. I say cruel, because, alas, so man}' of those so circumstanced fall into a condition of life too sad and too degrading to write of here.