Recently a young woman in New York became fascinated by a young man whom she met accidentally, and, after only a few days' acquaintance, was married to him. She did not look up his history and did not know anything about his past. While on their wedding trip the bridegroom was arrested for theft, and it was found that he had been in jail several times before. The bride was heart-broken, but she could not retrieve the false step that linked her fate with that of a convicted thief. By not taking a little precaution this innocent girl has practically ruined her life.
It is the easiest thing in the world to slide into the meshes of entanglements which will cripple our advance or mar our reputations. How many careless young girls are led unconsciously into alliances with young men of whom they know practically nothing and wake up to find themselves entangled for life!
How many men in our large cities, rich, and, apparently, possessing everything to make them happy, are being blackmailed today, their lives made a hell on earth by the partners of their entangling alliances. How many homes are wrecked every year, and how many innocent and unsuspecting children made to blush with tims of entanglements of all kinds in this country today who, if they could only gain the ears of the young just starting out in life, would repeat to them Washington's words of warning.