Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-11-28
wOMEN'S ROUND TABLE
Edited by Andrea Hofer.

est literary lion, Ruuyaru N'ppipS'
on the all importent subject of our
girls at home is interesting in the In
cluded comparison with the English
and European daughters:-The
American girls are pretty-Nery
much so with piquancy all their
own, impossible to describe as to re-
sist. Sweet and comely are the
maidens of Devonshire; delicate and
of precious seeming those who live
in the pleasant places of Londsn;
fasci mating, for all their occurrences,
tile damsels of France, clinging close
ly to their mothers, and, with large
eyes wondering At the wicked world; ;
excellent In her own place, and to
those who understand her, Is the
Anglo-Indian spin" in her second
season.
But the girls of America are above
and beyond them all. They are cley-
er, they can talk; yea, it is said they
can think. Certainly they have an
appearance of so doing which Is de-
lightfully deceptive. They are or
iginal, and regard you with un-
abashed eyes-as a sister might look
at her brother. They are instructed,
too, in the folly and vanity of the
male mind-for they have associated
with boys from babyhood, and can
discerningly minister to both vices
or pleasantly snub the possessnr.
They possess, moreover, life
among themselves, independent
of any masculine associations.
They have societies and
clubs and unlimited tea-fights, where
all the guests are girls. They are
self-possessed without parting with
any tenderness that is their sex
right. They understand. They
can take care of themselves. They
are superbly independent.
When you ask them what makes
them SO charming, they say: 1t is
because we are better educated than
your girls, and we are more sensible
in regard to men. We have good
times all around, but are not taught
to regard every man as a possible
husband. Nor Is he expected to
marry the first girl he calls on regu'
larly.' Yes; they have good times.
Their freedom is large, and they dc
not abuse it. They can go driving
with young men and receive ned:
from young men to an extent thai
would make an English mother
wink with horror; and neither
driver nor drivee has thought be-
yond the enjoyment of a good time
But this freedom of the young
girl has its draw backs. She isl
say it with all reluctance-irreve
rent from her forty-dollar bonnet tC
the buckles on her eightee n-dollal
shoes. She talks fiippantiy to hel
parents. The parents permit it.
Nothing is too good for an Ameri
cans daughter. Il speak here o
the moneyed classes The girls
take every gift as matter of course
And yet they develop greatly wher
a catastrophe arrives and the man o
many millions goes up or goes down
His daughters take to stenography
or type-writing. have heard many
tales of such heroism from the lipi
of girls who counted the principals
among their friends.
CHII.DHOOD's BROTHERHOOD.
When a mother tells her child
"You must not play with Freddie
Jones! He is bad boy and wiz
make you bad ~ she has done hel
child an injury which is bound to
bear fruit later, after its own kind
for its seed is in itself. We do not
realize the bondage we place oul
children in when we teach them
to fear anything, when we teach
them that miDgling with Other
children is going to corrupt them.
Wethus make:them sin against theii
own souls, for we implant a sense OF
evil where before there was none.
If mothers could but see this one
essential fact, that 1t Is a crime, yes
a positive crime to implant a sense
of evil in a child when, left to itself
1t would have none, a great steI
would be taken toward the mani
festation of that great law, the unitv
of all things, which is coming forth
constantly by means of this great
object lesson, the world we live in.
Children often teach their mothers
thi- very fact. A little four-year-0ld
who was playing IN his own dearly
beloved "back-yard," saw small
head peeping at him over the fence,
aud extended the natural combined
invitation and command 10 "COme
and play ~ His mother hear
lug more noise than usual,
looked out of the window
aud was Mortified TO see with her
cherished darling, a little boy who
slie had heard use shocking bad