Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-04
@ let the children do as they please;
nut think of the results.
The Eurnnean ia ther ellards his Mnna

hut think of the results.
The European father guards his wom-
en-. tho he may care no more for them
than the American father The Eu-
ropean mother loves her daughters not
one whit more than the American moth
err, but she holds them to stricter ac-
counting of their actions and watches
them as long as it is needed--which
means always, in some cases.
In the old country a man will not
marry girl who has compromised her
self, even tho innocently. AS stern law
here could work no harm.
tits not necessary to keep girl in abb
solute ignorance, as they do in France.
Ignorance is not innocence. But is it
we'll to let your young daughter go alone
with a man to the theater, to return
late at night to her home-perhaps after
u supper with him at some downtown.
restaurant Do you know her friends.
whether they. are worthy or unworthy?
Do you allow her to read all the books
that come in her way? There are books
and magazines published that can work
more harm to young and vivid imagi-
nation than your steady brain can think
of. Do you allow young men to escort
her, alone, to social functions? Do you
let her visit men in their downtown Of
fees? Do you let her take lunch with
them away from home alone? Do you
wonder. when you allow her free con-
tact with the rough world, that the ex-
quisite bloom of her youth is so soon
faded? Do you wonder that she loses
respect for men,. in her overknowledge
of them-so that even her own father
must suffer from it? Are you amazed,
then, that men acknowledge an increas-
ing disrespect for women, when girls are
not considered valuable enough to be
more safely guarded by their parents?
There is something wrong in condi-
ton which will allow young woman to
take car at 8 o'clock in the evening, to
ride home alone. There is something
wrong in her parents matter-of-course
attitude when she failed to put In her
appearance at proper hour, in her
home. They trusted her? Yes. but it
seems that she met a man who as a
stranger to them, and she was willing to
go with him and stay part of the night
at a questionable resort! AT another
time, in healthier surroundings, she
might have scorned the idea that she
would have done such a thing. But
there was the night, and the man, and
i the temptation-and youth never knows
what it will do when the time comes. 1t
takes years and experience for that.
And if there had been a member of her
family with her, would she have gone ?
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Oh, this vaunted freedom of American
youth! This allowing Of puppyhood to
chase around as 1t will!
Take care of your daughters, fathers
and mothers, il only that they may re-
ceive the respect of your sons.
And. girls-a word to you.
Don't think that you are the whole
world to a man because he says you are.
He may mean it for the moment-but
men forget very easily-in fact, they
don't care to remember, especially when
other pretty faces keep bobbing up all
the time, as they do. If you'll wait long
enough lots of other men will tell you
the same thing-and mean 1t just as
much as the first one did. Never let a
man to you or do to you q thing that
| you would be ashamed to have your
mother know. And, remember this, al
| ways-the man who honestly lives you
and who would wish you for his wife, is
the man who will honor womanhood. He
is NOT he man who asks you to meet
him clandestinely, or to go to winerooms
with him, or who asks anything Of you
which your woman's instinct tells you ii
wrong, and the thought Of which mus
be miserable humiliation TO you in the
i years to come.
r. -E. w. K IN Chicago journal.