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Your Daughter and Your Duty! LESLIE’S has broken a lifelong rule. It has never before, under its present manage- ment, published a story in serial form; now it is doing so, beginning June 26th Our two million readers will realize that only extraordinary reasons could have brought this about. They will understand those reasons when they begin to read the first instalment of FOR THE SAKE OF HER SOUL By Reginald Wright Kauffman Author of ‘‘ The House of Bondage,’’ ‘‘ Running Sands,’’ etc. We want to talk to you about this powerful work. In 1910, ‘The House of Bondage’’ almost blinded the ration by its terrific lightning- flash. Living among the White Slaves of whom he wrote, and mak- ing many firm friendships in that world, Mr. Kauffman worked with genuine art and burning sincerity. The result was a sensation such as no novel had, for a generation, created. Educators, clergymen, literary-critics, sociologists and physicians acclaimed this ‘The Uncle Tom’s Cabin of White Slav- ery.’’ Through translations, it is having a similar success in Ger- many, France, Norway, Switzer- land, Belgium, Sweden and Aus- tria. Almost immediately after the publication of ‘‘The House of Bond- age,”’ Lesiie’s resolved on what then seemed a perilous course for any magazine: it undertook to put fearlessly before the public what President Hyde of Bowdoin College soon came to call the ‘‘moral issue of the oncoming generation."? With- out fear or favor, and against the ad- vice of many well-meaning friends, we secured and gave to our readers the hideous facts of the White Slave Traffic, which we proceeded to prove to be a men- ace to YOU—to every home in the coun- try, however protected. With Mr. Kauff- man’s series of true and typical stories, “The Girl That Goes Wrong,’’ as our chief feature, Lestie’s became the first maga- zine, and Mr. Kauffman the first novelist, to attack the Modern Moloch. We sounded the danger-signal for the nation. We say without hesitation that, great as was the good done by Mr. Kauffman’s previous work, this new novel will do a greater good, because it not only shows how girls fall, but how they may rise The Time Has Come When the Truth Must Be Told If you are a young girl, it is your duty to read “FOR THE SAKE OF HER SOUL" in order that you, ,Lstt may know the perils that beset your own soul. or avoid falling. Strong, realistic, dra- matic, compelling, ‘For the Sake of Her Soul’’ is at once a triumph of literature and morals. Some of Mr. Kauffman’s few critics have complained that he does not gener- ally take enough account of the influence of religion upon character: this novel is one of the sincerest tributes to the power of the religious instinct that has ever been penned. Other critics have said that, though perhaps the strongest novelist that Amer- ica has produced, so far as sheer force and power go, Mr. Kauffman is too brutal ; yet this novel, while showing even greater power than ‘The House of Bondage,” may realize your responsibilities toward womankind. draws full half of its appeal from the moving sympathy and tenderness that, in every line, its author shows with the heart of its central char- acter. That character, the character of the girl Joe Meggs, both a delicate and strong creation, is one that has come into literature to stay. A girl of The People—not born of the very poor, nor yet the very rich—-she is the sort of girl that, save for unes- sential details, your own daughter is; the sort your own wife, sister, sweetheart is, in whatever stratum of American life you may chance to be. Precisely for that reason, in Joe the tempted and tried, finally triumphant through what she calls her ‘town will to be good,’? Mr. Kauffman, showing life’s pitfalls and one way to avoid them, has given us what is among the most tender and firm, fine and beautiful figures in modern fiction. Read the story yourself and you willagree. It began in Lesiie’s for June 26th and run for ten suc- cessive issues. If you read one chapter you will read all. As Rebecca West, the great Eng- lish critic, has said of him: ‘Mr, Kauffman's fingers are delicate, but strong.’? He is the master of saying all that is true without saying anything that is unclean. In this novel there be nothing to hurt the honest sensibilities of girl or woman; there will be every- thing that every girl and woman ought toknow. Without offense, but without fear, he tells, by an unhesitating pen, ‘‘the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,’’ and he does this be- cause he and we 7 BiB Ay. at ‘New York are convinced that A. onakitiue’ Please find $1.00 for which send me the 10 con- secutive issues of WEEKLY con- a "Mer Soul," by Reginald Wright Kauffman, the first the issue of June 25th. é If you are a young man, it is your duty to read this veracious yet thrilling story in order that you 7 "atiimene ‘of which sp a pee If you are a Father or Mother, it is above all your duty to read this compelling series of rev- elations in fiction-form, because nothing else can so bring home to you the knowledge of what you should do to make menof your sons, the knowledge of what you must do to save your daughters. Send $1.00 for a subscription to cover the 10 weeks" period during which this most startling serial will be printed FILL OUT THE COUPON -AND MAIL IT TODAY LESLIE’S WEEKLY, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York 7 waren State........ In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE, It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com