Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-09-18
Our Girls.

Doctor, it hurts me to see a grow
ing tendency to wildness among our
girls here in Missouri.
Some mothers are in a great hurry
to get their daughters out in society
and have them receive the attention
of young men. The fact is, we have
few girls now. and I am sorry for it,
for l always loved girls. We have
children and young men and young
ladies. They have about done away
with boys and girls-the frying
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.
The girls, Doctor, I 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 a newly married
couple, provided they were at home
in a private room where no one would
e them.
Now, Doctor, you needn't say
"pooh! poohi nonsense!" or some
thing of that kind, for 1 tell you it is
so. If this thing isn't stopped
trouble is gol to come of it as sure
as you're born. Trouble Of the worst
kind has already come of it here in
Missouri, but the girls keep on the
~sane way, and the silly mothers say;
sTell' Mr.: girls may do
wrors ana 2llsgrace 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 L might say WI have no family
government.
The girls are too loose, too ''slach
twisted,' and too bold i'm their asso'
Citations with the boys these days
They may not mean any harm at the
start, but harm will come of it i'll
most cases AS sure as you live. Why
Doctor, | know of q good many girls
now whose good name and character
are nightly smircied and the girl
have exposed themselves to all tina
has been said. | don't know thai
they have lone real bad things, bu
they have SKINNED along so close II
the edge of sin that their garment
have been fOuird. Doctor, if ID,
wife were to die | don't know what
would do for another wife. l dom
want to marry an old ugly woman
and l wouldn't have one of these fas
girls. I'm afraid they are not a
clean every way as u mans wifi
ought TO be. When [ do meet a rea
modest, nice, prudent girl l cam
help loving her. She is So pure an
sweet that | don't see how anyon
could keep from loving her Th
foolish boys aud the bad hoys Away
pay the most attention TO the tastes
girls until they get too far along an
theI. the bays quit waiting Oh then
in company. The tinid, modest
prudent girls always marry first, an
they get the hest husbands too.
do hope, Doctor, that there is not q
much IuO>cuess III the associations {
the Young folks III Georgia as ther
is here in Missouri. If there is / al
sorry for the Georgia that Is to
thirty ur forty wears FROM this tim
Somebody ought to talk plainly I
cur girls. They are nightly t
blame for these things. A boy wi
inch along and take every liberty
girl will permit him to take. He wi
stand off At arms length and admit
a girl and almost worship her if 81
wants it that way; butif she permi
him to come too close and take undt
liberties he will despise her i'll b
soul when away from her.
Mothers ought to talk to their cir
about these things-they ought
nip forwardness and fastness in tt
bud. If need be, cure your girl
kill h~er-nearIy. Don't let her be
brazen-faced: fast woman-for God
sake, don't! A moonlight walk,
Sunday afternoon ride, soda waite
champagne, cigarettes and fast drivil
and fast ways, and all of that may
very romantic, but 1t is a mighty goo
way to bring disgrace on your fami
and to send your daughter down
hell.
see signs in public places amor
the boys and girls that nearly choI
me to death with sorrow at my heal
We must put on the breaks q
slow up a little, or else we must bic
out the lights and drive down to dea
in darkness.