Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-25

Wesleyan Christian Ad0ocate
Doctor, it hurts me to see a growing
tendency TO wildness among our girls
here in Mississippi.
Some mothers are in great hurry to
get their daughters out into society and
have them receive the attention of young
men. The fact is, we have few girls now.
and am sorry for it, for | always loved
girls. We have children and young men
and young ladies. They have about done
away with boys and CHRISTINE "frVing
size" among the young folks. These boys
that would be young men are the biggest
set of ''gooses" l ever saw except the
girls who would be young ladies.
These girls, doctor, am sorry to say
it, but they permit the boys to take too
many liberties with them-liberties not
suited to first cousins and hardly suitable
for brothers and sisters.
The way they take on would do pretty
well for newly married couple, provided
they were at home in private room where
no one would see them.
Snow, Doctor, you needn't say "pooh
pooh! nOnsense!" or something of that
kind, for l tell you it is so. If this thing
isn't stopped trouble is going to come OF
1T as sure as you are born. Trouble of the
worst kind has already come of it here in
Mississippi, but the girls keep on the
same way, and the silly mothers say:
"WelI, MIR. Jones' girls may do wrong
and disgrace themselves, but my girls
won't do So" Some folks forget that
human nature is pretty much the same
all over the world.
may be wrong, but somehow keep a
thinking that we are too loose in our
family government these times-indeed /
might say we have no family govern
ment.
The girls are too loose, too ''slack
twisted" and too bold in their assOcia-
tions with the boys these days. They may
not mean any harm at the start, but harm
Will come of it in most cases as sure as
you live. Why, Doctor, l know of good
many girls now whose good name and
character are nightly smirched; and
the girls have exposed themselves to all
that has been said. l don't know that
they have done real bad things, but they
have skinned along so close to the edge
of sin that their garments have been
touled. Doctor, if my wife were to die
l don't know what | would do for another
wife. l don't want to marry an old ugly
woman, and | wouldn't have one of these
fast girls. Pm afraid they are not as
clean every way as a mans wife ought
to be. When do meet real modest, nice.
prudent girl | can't help loving her. She
is so pure and sweet that l don't see how
any one could keep from loving her. The
foolish boys and the bad boys always pay
the most attention to the fastest girls un-
til they get too far along and then the
boys quit waiting on them in company.
The timid, modest, prudent girls, always
marry first, and they get the best hus-
bands too. do hope, Doctor, that there
is not as much lOOseness in the associa-
tions of the young folks in Georgia as
there is here in Mississippi. If there is j
am sorry for the Georgia that is to be 81
or 40 years from this time.
Somebody ought to talk plainly to our
girls. They are nightly to blame for
these things. A boy will inch along and
take eveWMnl liberty girl will permit him
to take SM 3Awill stand off at arms length
and adnfHsf# girl and almost worship her
if she W. t that way; but if she per-
mits hins cOme too close and take undue
liberties ne will despise her in his soul
when away from her.
Mothers ought to talk to their girls
about these things-they ought to nip for
wardness and fastness in the bud. If
need be cure your girl or kill her-nearlv.
Don't let her be a braZen-faced, fast wO-
man-for Gods sake, don't! A moonlight
walk, a Sunday afternoon ride, soda water,
champagne, cigarettes and fast driving
and fast ways, and all of, that may be
very romantic, but it is a mighty good
way to bring disgrace on your family and
to send your daughter down to hell.
l see signs in public places among the
boys and girls that nearly choke me to
death with sorrow at my heart.
We must put on the breaks and slow
up little, or else we must blow out the
lights and drive down to death in dark
ness. GILDERoY.