She-Devils and How They Weave Their Webs

The Candy-Store Traps for School-Girls—The Fiendish Traffic in Children's Souls

These tenement blocks are little worlds in themselves, and so it is with the residents on our most popular streets. An old citizen, one would suppose, might easily familiarize himself with the calling and habits of his neighbors, but not even the most experienced have any suspicion of the crimes that are nightly committed within a stone's throw of their parlors, of the villainous snares set to entrap the pure yet thoughtless young girls, of the hellish traffic that is covertly carried on—all looking to the corruption of the young females, and the enrichment of the heartless hags who woo their victims to their nests.

Illustrated Police News, January 31, 1880.

During the great Christian Endeavor convention in Washington, D. C., last week, some women of the place, women with painted faces and strident voices, women who plainly never dwelt in the odor of sanctity but preferred the scent of musk, flaunted in Christian Endeavor badges, and did skirt dances in bar rooms along the boulevards. They were loaded to the guards with liquor, and evidently had been making use of false plumage to ply their trade among the religious brethren and pious strangers.

Illustrated Police News, July 18, 1896.