THE PRESENT PROBLEM.
BYSARAH K. BOLTON.
NEW YORK:
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS,
FOURTH AVENUE AND TWENTY-THIRD STREET.
1874.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by SARAH K. BOLTON, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
PREFACE.
MUCH of this story is true in detail. Knowledge of the temptations to which we are exposed, prepares us to meet them. We are dealing with social problems which present themselves more urgently than ever before. Intemperance and immorality are on every side. We have tacitly countenanced them in one sex, while we have condemned them in the other. The women of America are beginning to feel the magnitude of the evils they are called upon to meet, and the greatness of the work God has laid upon them. We must be strong for the right, earnest in our labors, and temperance and virtue will triumph.
SARAH K. BOLTON.
JUNE, 1874.