212 Pearson's Magazine as a street woman in this city. A man's wife or sister or daughter may walk abroad at any hour with a great degree of safety. How many other big cities of this country can offer as much?" The South's Need In plain English, the crying need in the South to-day is a complete breaking up of the congress of white men with colored women. For at least a decade there has been a gradual trend toward segregation. The gratifying results may be seen in the increasing number of dark stains on the newly born babies. But the eradication of the evil is by no means in sight, if the present easy-going conditions are to continue. Local prophylactic movements have had little effect upon the general situation. Because of the recklessness of college boys and young men, many of the best and purest women in the whole of Dixie are being ruined physically or being made to suffer temporary torture undeservedly. It is a well-established fact that many of the youth of the South become early afflicted through intimacy with colored girls or women, that they frequently submit to treatment by quack doctors who brazenly advertise a speedy cure, whereas a six months' treatment is generally needed, of treat themselves with one of the many nostrums exploited in the advertising columns of the daily newspapers. They believe they have been permanently relieved and marry innocent, pure women. It soon becomes evident that they had no business taking such a step, but - it is too late. No matter which one of the social troubles develops, the chances are at least two to one that the poor girl is doomed to pass the remainder of her days an invalid or at least childless. Not infrequently there are complications which bring a speedy death. It is often charged that if the white men did not become infected as at present, there would be women on hand to do the work. I think the testimony of leading physicians all over the country who have studied this question that such would not be the case because a fair proportion of the whites will submit to treatment and practically all of the blacks and mulattoes decline or neglect to is sufficient answer. But that is a bit beside the main question. As I stated in my first article, Louisiana has determined to so improve upon the anticoncubinage law enacted by her last legislature that it will become an absolute antimiscegenation measure, making a single act of misconduct a felony punishable by imprisonment and hard labor. With the clause making it incumbent upon every judge of a district court to instruct each grand jury to investigate and return an indictment whenever evidence of misconduct is discovered in full force, much bigger results than have yet been reported will be speedily obtained. I am reliably informed that the chances for securing the passage of such a law in South Carolina are excellent. This will mean a tremendous step forward in the two States where the heavy hand of miscegenation has been most felt. It will mean the passing of the yellow skin in a large measure and the return of the African type; it will mean a fair chance for white women, many thousands of whom are to-day walking from the altar like so many flies into the spider's web. Some fine day these two States will go a step further and set other Southern States a tremendous pace by adopting the marriage law of Indiana. Still there is big work to do. Observations show that yellow skins are most numerous in and around towns where colleges are located. Pedagogues and physicians have given this phase of the question a great deal of thought. President E. B. Craighead, of Tulane University, writes me that for some years he has delegated a physician to lecture the students of the freshman class upon the evils of miscegenation - and then leaves the whole matter to the boys themselves. This is a step toward the testing of a scheme which Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, chief of the Division of Zoology of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, strongly advocates. During his many years of work among the poor whites of the South, Dr. Stiles has had much to do with the colleges and universities of that section and with Southern boys. In the latter he believes firmly. He says he has never seen their like elsewhere in this country or anywhere in Europe. Putting Boys on Honor "Put a Southern boy on his honor," he said to me one day recently, "and you will get results in a hurry. Show him what the consequences of his indiscretions are sure to be, what it means to the woman whom he will one day make his wife for him keep clear of the negro. Then get his word that he will do so. In a few years miscegenation would be considered such a disgrace that a man