Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07

on most subjects, aud these opinions sht
Us unhesitetingly expresses in the pres
enoe OF the wise scientist or the gray'
protessor. This young woman is as in
dependent as she is self possessed; sh'
| mas her society and her club, and her Sc
mat father and mother seldom lnvesti.
gate and often do not even know.
This writer admits that SO much free
dom makes her quite charming, bu
| questions if there Is not drawbacks asso-
Grated with it. An ohservant person
must readily admit that there are, and
some of them of q serious nature. Tt
say nothing OF the lost charm of q
shrinking timidity called in old fashioned
par!ance maiden modesty, that is not re-
placed by any modern acquisition
there is most always observable an ire
verence pervading her entire nature.
She speaks tiIppantly of serious matters
she Is assertive with her parents, and
appropriatiug in manner. At home she
entertains guests and is as uumindful OF
her mother position as hostess as if that
mother were only the housekeeper her
manner towards her indicates. She is
impatient of restraint, and resent
full of interference the natural result
of freedom that began to assert itself
during the long dress period of her
babyhood, If her father presumes to
question the propriety of her actions or
the character OF her associates, particu-
larly her gentlemen friends,'' she
considers him an intermeddler and if he
carries his intermeddling to a Disagree
able issue she is sure to pride herself
on thwarting him.
This OF course is the extreme, but
there is reason for the belief that the
freedom of the American girl is fraught
with danger to herself aud to social life.
Preventives are better than cures, and
it is the wise captain who, seeing danger
ahead, shifts the course of his vessel and
thus avoids the rocks and shoals threat
ening the safety of the vessel The
daughters of a people are a nation 8
priceless treasure, and when family
vigilance relaxes there is danger.
Rachel is heard weeping for her chill
dren, not so often because they
are not, as because they are. She
has decked her daughters in the
purple and fine linen of Tyre
and sent them forth into the market
places unattended and ungusrded. They
have fallen among thieves and now
robbed of that which is priceless
Rachel mourns. A treasure in gold,
silver or jewels requires no caution as to
its guarding. Men build vaults with
IRON walls, and spend their money and
talent to perfect safety locks for the
security of their treasure. Women
guard jewels for their personal adorn-
ment with Jealous care, and yet can it
be said that daughters are less precious
than these perishable things. There is
no argument, or if there is let it be in
the form of queries.
Fathers, mothers, do you know your
daughters? Are you their chosen conf
ants? Do they submit to your judg-
ment as TO the company and hours they
keep? Do you know what thev read
where they go, and who are their chosen
girl associates? Do you know and ap-
prove as thoroughly the young
men that visit them as you
would expect to do these young
men as would be required if you expected
to entrust them with your business or
your funds! Few who reflect will count
these questions superfiuous or deem that
only an alarmist sees danger i'll free
dom that is likely to degenerate into Ii
cense, and is hazardous, to say the least,
when II granted those whose judgment is
immature. and to those whose emotions,
rather than reason, are apt to sway.
Whatever may be said of being a broth
er s keeper, there can be no convincing
argument against parental RESPONSE
liIity