the coarse language and degrading conversation,
catching the contagion of it, familiarizing them
selves with licentiousness and debauchery.

Mrs. Grundy rules as supremely over the workers
as she does over the bourgeoisie; but in the case of

[{A WOMAN S CLUB AT THE PUBLIC HOUSE DOOR.}]

the workers, the one thing she does not frown upon
is the public house. No disgrace or shame attaches
to it, nor to the young woman or girl who makes a
practice of entering it.

I remember a girl in a coffee-house saying, " I
never drink spirits when in a public ouse." She

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