Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-05-17
OURGIRLs.
E ditor Of the Times :

Ject which follow SO closely upon tina
Of a previous ar ticle, for this question
"What shall we do with our girls
how keep them pure and bring then
up to a vigorous, useful womanhood il
the midst Of evil surroundings? is ont
which GENES home forcibly to manv Of
US, and one which needs more earnes
atteyItion than is now given to it.
A young girl should be the purest'
Sweetest thing on earth with a soul re-
fecting the image of its Creator.
Like the pure sparkling drop in the lilies fan
cup.
That holds in its bosom miniature sun,
Or the lem that is rarest in settings most pre-
cous,
Rejecting the radience of light it has won.
As the mother is the principal one to
mold, develope, guide, control and in
many things to instruct her daughter
all along life's pathway from infancy to
womanhood how discreet, how careful,
how wise the mother should strive to be
with such responsibilities resting upon
her, knowing that these daughters are
soon to fill places of honor and trust
knowing also, that, to large degree,
they will be just such woman as the
home training makes Of them. How
thorough then ought that training to
be; how pure the example, how wise
the instruction given them there.
The doors which have been lockedand
bolted to woman, are one by one giving
way and swinging open for her to pass
on and up to higher callings, to broad
err fields of usefulness. Daughters are
standing side by side with sons, in our
colleges, winning the same honors the
same degrees and as many as will may
stand side by side in the professions
filling. without molestation, honorably
and well their God given mission, as
some are already doing with credit to
themselves and benefit to humanity.
1t devolves upon mothers, therefore,
to see that their daughters are fitted to
efficiently discharge the duties and re-
sponsibilitles of life in all its phases
which may come upon them. AS new
channels, and broader fields of useful
ness are opening up to woman so, in pro-
portion do our girls need better home
training, more home culture and i'm
provements. The women who fritter
away their time pamdering foolish
pride, and fostering the envyingsj jealous.
ies, strifes and pernicious gossips, which
are so prevalent in all society are unfit
| for the sacred office of motherhood and
be mothers will develope the very tend
denotes in their girls which they ought
to suppress and suppress the very vir-
tues which ought to be cultivated fill
ing their minds with pernicious ideas
which will at the very least unfit them
for lives of enjoyment and usefulness.
We cannot discuss here the best methods
or physical, mental and moral culture
of our girls.
The best liturature upon these sub.
jects is now given to the public at rates
reasonable that every woman with
out single exception may if she will
supply herself and home with suffilc-
ent smount, at least, for all practical
purposes. There is no reasonable ex-
cuse for ignorance upon subjects Of
such vital Importance.
1t is time our girls were being taught
| at home and from their earliest child
hood, the many things which girl
ought to be taught by sensible moth
err, and of which they have TO often
been left in ignorance while their
minds were filled with the veriest trash.
1t is time every young girl was taught
the laws of life; time every vestige
Of secrecy, which is so productive of
crime and misery In the world, were
swept away between mother and daught-
err, and the little girls and the large girls
were taught by the mother those physi-
cal laws of their being in all their truth
and purity as implanted by an all wise
Creator. If mothers will not thus in
strust their daughter let the fathers do
so for until girls are educated correct
ly along these lines we will look invain
healthy bodies and sound we'll -ballanced
minds in the ladies of our land. We
will look in vain also for higher state
of mental, moral and social purity
Thousands of woman of to -day are hope
less physical wrecks, doomed to life
of suffering because,their parents fall
ed to discharge this duty. Thousands
are mental wrecks from the same cause
and thousands more are moral wrecks
who might have been living virtues lives