The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07


had aroused her curiosity as to what
constituted her charm over men and
stirred her woman's vanity. The limo
cence of her mind was disturbed by her
unfolding emotions and her Eve-like
desire for greater knowledge. Never
did a young girl so need a mothers SYM
patty and counsel as this one. often
wonder why God permits woman like
that to become mother. To send such
girl away to boarding-school was dam
gerous no doubt. yet hardly as danger
GUS as leaving her under the care OF
such blind and stupid mother.
ANOTHER INNOCENT
know a brilliant lawyer who was q
wild boy in his youth He was forever
in trouble Of some kind with the fair
sex and finally married girl who ran
away from school to become his wife.
They are the parents of several children.
the eldest handsome, dark-eyed girl
who inherits her fathers love of ad-
venture. She is only fifteen, but has al
ready passed through series of love
affairs, known to all her friends and
commented upon by strangers, but the
criminally blind parents are ignorant
of all this. No one dares tell them that
almost daily on her way to and from
the village school their daughter sees
young men, and. utterly forgetting
their own hazardous past, both father
and mother imagine their daughter to
be an innocent child in mind
1t might prove to be the moral saliva
zion of this girl to send her away to a
good boarding school if the right wom-
an presided over it She is not vicious
she is fun of animal spirits and pre-
cocious feminine instincts.
Hundreds of young American girls
are like her, and hundreds of stupid
American parents fail to see the neces-
sity and duty of guarding over such
girls.
THE RIGHT WAY.
A girl like this ought to be treated very
gently and wit affection. She ought
to be wisely taught and entertained.
She should pass many hours in active
physical exc else. The gymnasium is
far better for such girl than the
boarding school She should have no
idle hours, no condolences with strange
companions, no hidden books to read
until she has cros~ed the dangerous
chasm which spans girlhood and
womanhOod.
have known a girl who was q nero
child in mind to be forced into prema-
ture maturity by association with older
and more experienced girls at boarding
school. Where number of young
girls are thrown together constantly
for companionship their conversation
runs largely to love affairs. This young
girl, who had never passed through any
heart experiences, hearing so much up
on the subject from her companions
felt called upon to contribute her share
to the entertainment To the amaze
ment of her parents and teachers she
developed faculty for relating tales of
love adventure wherein she figured as
heroine. Investigation proved the
stories utterly without foundation 1t
was one of the abnormal developments
of boarding school life.
do nofthink elopements from board
ing schools are SO frequent as elope-
ments from homes I again assert that
good and wise teachers. few as they
are, are more plenty than good and wise
parents.
l wish we could have q training
school for parents-a school where tho
physical and moral nature of the young
girl and boy should be discussed, and
where the imperative duty Of watching
over this physical and moral nature
should be impressed upon the mind Of
every woman and man before they were
to procure a marriage certifi-
cate This would be far better thing
for the world at large than the board
ing school
The lack of such training for parents
causes more harm and mischief to 60 on
under their eyes than is possible in the
average well ordered boarding school
So stupid are parents In regard TO
their own children that those whom |
most desire to reach by this article will
read it without suspicion that it can
apply TO them; while many a young
girl of whom I never heard will feel
her cheeks Jingle and VIII wonder how
knew her secret
ELLA WmExR Wnoox
Daybreak Song.
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last.
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glzssed;
Leaves shaking, kline waking. scss sounds from
field and vood-
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God IS good.
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day
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