Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The following material, much of which has been published in M cc’ lure’ 8 Magazine, written, not from the point of view of the expert, but because of my own need for a counter-knowl edge to a bewildering mass of information which came to me through the Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago. The reports which its twenty field oficers daily brought to its main ofice adjoining Hull House became to me a revelation of the dangers implicit in city condi tions and of the allurements which are designedly placed around many young girls in order to draw them into an evil life.