The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-28
AMERICAN GIRLS ABROAD.
Their independence Is Often MiSul-
deTStOOd.

More to Be Considered Than the Ex-
pense in Sending Girl to Germany.
Her Religious Faith Is Sure to Be
Asssailed-If She Goes Alone She
Will Have Many Disagreeable Ex-
perienoes-Stories of Life in Leipsic
for an American Young Woman.
From the New York Times.
Among families who can afford it, the
question of sending girls abroad for the
study of music and the modern languages,
with the cultivation gained from travel,
constantly recurs. Many do go, and re-
turn with French and German phrases on
their tongues, and with their musical &C
quirements greatly enlarged.
The decision whether to go or stay
generally hinges on the expense, and even
thinking, careful people seldom ascertain
Just what a sojourn on thecontinent means
in the way of moral and religious influ-
ence, or even of physical discomfort.
The girl is ambitious aud wants to go,
of course. The mother can seldom go
Duty to her hus band and the younger
children forbids. Moreover, she is
proudly conscious that her daughter can
be trusted anywhere in the wide world.
She (the daughter) is guided by religious
principal, and is quite safe with friend
of her own age, or indeed alone in
Europe, Asia, or Africa. The girl shares
this confidence with regard to herself.
She does not realize how much the re-
straining and refining influences of an
American home have to do with her at
tainments in goodness, or how easily,
once removed from there influences, her
very self-reliance, combined with expert
ence, may be the means of lowering the
tone of her character.
Commenting upon this question of a
girls residence in Germany, a woman
who has had opportunities for observation
and experience that make her opinions
authoritative, says:
1.-The process by which faith is under
mined is insidious. Matters heretofore
regulated by what we call conscience
Weld first to a polite tolerance toward
those who differ from US, and then come
to be regarded as the results of prejudice
and education.
".Why should I assume to be better
than the whole German natlonF says our
girl to herself. If l had been born in
India should have been BUDDHIST
"a German professor, a Herr Doctor,
savs To her: DO YOU not know that it
takes more creduliUy to believe in the in
carnation and divinity of Christ than in
fine sacred call of MonammedH and when
he thankfully adds that he is slave to
M sunerstition, and believes in none of
those things which our girl has held I'M
questioned since she first sad prayer
at her mothers knee, she Is impressed
nv This superior intellectual attitude, and
is half afraid she has been all her lie
| credulous and superstitious.
.The Sabbath question is likely to form
an entering wedge. 1t is sure TO come up
for settlement sooner or later. Inc early
service in the Lutheran church is not at-
tractive The buildings are not heated,
and feet Jingle with cold on the stone
| floors. Neither the dreary fifteen verses
! of the choral sung in drawing unison
! nor the perfunctory ADDRESS OF the HILLS
| ter can dispel the musty emil OF tne az
~If our girl student drags herself from
! her ned of down and goes TO this service
| where nobody gives her look OF greet
! ing. and where perhaps, the sermon Is IN
an Unknown tongue. she may wen Ieel
that she has done penance Tor most oI
sins. and is entitled to an afternoon IA
/ the beer garden, where the fraus GOSSIP
and knit stockings, INDUCING IA co.lee,
,.-1,i1e their lords empty great stout
classes of beer. Or she goes to a picnic
IN in summer or TO a concert IN tne al
t -, ~ ~ in winter and the opera in
tbe evening. And it is not long before an
restraints are thrown aside, and sunday
becomes purely and simply the Contnen-
tai holiday. H.. r,o-a 60.
rions than is generally supposed, and let
no one take IL for granted that sne can an.
not az least do foolish things that cause ner
blush in after lie, I'll Ger 6epni Sv their pa
80 N nntii their marriage, when the duty
- g,atcbfulness is transferred 70 tne
husband Right faithfully does ne per-