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DISAGREES WITH MRS. PEATTIE.

OMAHA, May 1[?].-- [To the Editor of the WORLD-HERALD.]--I read in your Sunday's paper of May 6 an article under the head of "Brain and Heart Broken" with very mixed feelings. First, admiration of Mrs. Peattie's skillful manner of "putting things," sorrow at the pitiful picture drawn by the wronged and suffering girl, and lastly, indignation, mingled with amusement, at the tirade against the "ignorant mothers" who are held accountable for such a terrible condition of affairs. The poor mothers. It has often occurred to me in reading Mrs. Peattie's articles that she has a very low opinion of mothers. May I be allowed to lift my feeble voice in behalf of the long suffering women who are passing sleepless nights in the effort to rear their sons and daughters in what appears to them the best way? In the first place I must ask Mrs. Peattie if, with her knowledge of girls and human nature, she honestly believes that the victim in her story, a girl working in a restaurant,was totally ignorant of the laws of nature, that she was innocent as a young child who has been carefully watched and guarded, that no suspicion of evil should reach her? Does she believe it possible that a girl who goes out to service can escape contact with other working girls, all more or less enlightened as to their physical beings and the consequences of transgression from the path of virtue and chastity? I do not for one instant. No, it is there too much than too little knowledge that has proved her ruin. Cheap literature and talks with other girls on subjects which had better been let alone, have intamed her imagination and led her on to harm. It may be that your able writer has not known much of girls during her girlhood, perhaps she never was inside of a public school. If she had been she would have discovered that a girl's strongest characteristic is unfortunately her curiosity, and that girls learn so much from one another that there would be little left for the mother to impart if she did her duty as Mrs. Peattie so earnestly desires. Very few if any can plead innocence or ignorance at the ages of 12 or 13, if they could I should consider it a cause for thankfulness, as I am either so "shy" or so "foolish" that I think innocence a most desirable state for a young girl and firmly believe that there is a natural sense of decency and modesty innate in every respectably born girl which is her best protection. Any girl whose natural instincts are so blunt that she does not realize when a man is taking improper liberties with her would scarcely be saved by any amount of information administered by parents.

DISAGREES WITH MRS. PEATTIE.

OMAHA, May 1[?].-- [To the Editor of the WORLD-HERALD.]--I read in your Sunday's paper of May 6 an article under the head of "Brain and Heart Broken" with very mixed feelings. First, admiration of Mrs. Peattie's skillful manner of "putting things," sorrow at the pitiful picture drawn by the wronged and suffering girl, and lastly, indignation, mingled with amusement, at the tirade against the "ignorant mothers" who are held accountable for such a terrible condition of affairs. The poor mothers. It has often occurred to me in reading Mrs. Peattie's articles that she has a very low opinion of mothers. May I be allowed to lift my feeble voice in behalf of the long suffering women who are passing sleepless nights in the effort to rear their sons and daughters in what appears to them the best way? In the first place I must ask