For, with all deference to Mr Warner, there are evils that very easily beset the stage, and there are some which managers might do a great deal to lessen. We will not insult Mr Warner and' his profession by supposing that there is more immorality behind the scenes of a theatre than there is in other places where men and women come together to earn their daily bread. Life behind the scenes is too busy a thing to leave room for much serious mischief. It has always appeared to us, however, a drawback to the stage, that the young women who enter its service have largely to be their own protectors, and are brought into intimate relations with the other sex, such as in any other walk of life would be con sidered dangerous to their virtue. It is very well for Mr Warner to men tion the names of Helen ITaucit, Mary Anderson, and other women not more eminent in their profession than honoured in their private life. Such women cannot be mentioned with sufficient respect. But we could, if we would, mention a much longer roll of women who have not in creased their own or their family's honour by going on the stage. The truth is, the stage.more than most professions is beset with temptations for weak women; and the fact that the stronger natures rise above such temp tations does not alter the fact, though it may make their virtue the more conspicuous. This want of protection for the young girls who join the ranks is the one tendency towards immorality that we find inherent in the stage. The other evils are mere accidents which may be remedied.
