The Red Cloud chief., 1900-05-04
As to Girls,

on the whole it contains a liberia
amount Of good advice:
"The high school, which is a worthy
institution and is the most powerful.
agency for god in this community
turns out annually a dozen girls, most
Of whom begin life with no other prep.
aration for the world than they get in
the high school. In the course Of one
year, two years or five years these
girls find places in the mosaic of the
town life-either as wives aud mothers
working wOmen or society people.
None Of these girls ever find a prince.
Most of them within five.years from
I le time.'hey blush over the foo lights
with their essays on the flaws OF our
governmental system of ethics ind
themselves either alone or married,
facing the problem of bread and butter
which after all is the serious thing that
faces sthe' world. These girls have
learned IL the high school many valu.
able things about the Victorian poets;
they have ascertained much that Is cur.
ious about logarithms, they have &C.
quired q familiarity with amo, amas,
amat, and they can with reasonable
certainty distinguish the salient points
Of difference between q metaphor and
ahole in the ground.
But how many Of these girls can wash
q babys How many know where a.por.
terhouse steak comes fromf
What per cent Of them can run a
w%recking crew into a pullet and re.
move the debris without breaking the
gall. bagS
How many a pick out a roast Of
mutton and know how to dress it and
serve it 80 that it won't taste like a ran.
cid nightmare?
How many a make their own IN.
derwearp
How many know how to save the
scraps OF meat and potatoes and bread
and cake and vegetables and make
soups and stews and croquets and pud.
dings and things out Of them and save
half the grocery bills for a manP
How many know how to brighten up
q home, with the thousand little
touches that make the home something
more than four walls and a roof
Yet these are the important things of
life. This knowledge is far more i'm.
portant to happiness than a knowledge
that the square of * plus 'y'is x square
plus two KY plus y square.
The average girl in the our of
time marries. And she doesn't marry
a millionaire; she Eiarries a man who is
making at the time Of his marriage
very little v e or under $40 a week.
He goes out six days in the week dig
ging for that ten. IL is the girls part
Of the partnership to save it for him.
But if she doesn't know housekeeping
further than bakers bread and fried
beefsteak, the chances are that the fam.
lily will always be poor, that the man
will quit shaving more than on ,e a we k
and the woman slomick around in a
wrapper and the tow-head dirty-faced
kids will go ragged and sick; that the
doctor will take all the money the gro.
Ger leaves and that loves dream will
soon be owe and the devil will be sit.
ting beside the battered % cent alarm
clock in the dirty bedroom holding his
sides aud laughing at what a pudding
he has got.
Aud then when the high school girl
sees her graduation essay tied with
blue ribbon IN the bottom bureau draw.
er, she will sit down and bawl while
her bread burns and she will wonder
where all her high ideals have gone.
Here's where they have gone.
The butch err has taken part of them
because the girl could not buy meat in.
and save in making hash
and stews and croquets and things with
the left over parts.
The grocer has had part of those
ideals because the girl lives on canned
truck which is the most expensive food
in the world and would bankrupt IA
king.
The dry goods man has taken some
more ideals, because the girl buys
ready made garments that she doesn't
know how TO make.
The doctor will take a lot of those
ideals, because she doesn't know how
to cook wholesome food, to keep a san.
itary house and to preserve a sound
body,
Then if the girl is like the average OF
her kind she will begin to toy with
debt, She will keep her husbands nose
to the grindstone. He will lose heart
He will smoke more tobacco because h,
can't see that he is any better of fol-
the saving when his wife blows hin