The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-11
THE DEVIL AND The GIRLS.
A Moral Lessen From q Newspaper
Mems GULL.

The following article is taken from
the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette, and
while it was intended as a rebuke to
evil practices in that city, it is so ap-
plicable to conditions in many places
that it is worthy of more than passing
notice. The Gazette says:
1.-THE mothers of this town have had
a lesson-but it does not seem to have
done them any good. There are just
as many girls gadding around town
getting their mail from private boxes
years ago the Gazette went after the
mothers for neglecting their daughters
and the result was that a half dozen
private mail boxes were discontinued
and lot of little girls who were in
the habit of gadding too much were
kept in for a time. These girls are
now developing into fine young women
but another crop of gadding girls has
come on and the Gazette hopes that
no ones modesty will be shocked by
saying that these little hussies ought
to be spanked good and red. If their
mothers knew the type of boys and
young men-young human pups-these
girls are running with their mothers
would throw fits. But their mothers
know nothing of the situation. They
think that their little girls are so
Sweet and Pure that nothing can harm
them. The truth is these children are
made Of the same kind of mud that we
all are made of and they are just as
liable to temptation as older people
and a thousand times less experienced
And their mothers let them CAD the
streets and flirt with all kinds of men
and then their mothers wonder how
the devil got them and think the girls
must take after their father.
There are just two things that will
keep girls straight at that age one is
plain clothes and the other is home du-
ties. The girls who make fools OF
themselves are invariably over dressed.
They wear buds that women of 80
should hesitate about wearing. A lit
tie girl with too many and too costly
clothes on her back gets self-conscious
and vain and loves admira tion-and
you grown up women know the next
step. A simple, pure hearted girl who
has had place in home, home work
and home duties, has her heart there
and no boy can steal it. Even when
maturity comes and real man comes
and real affair of her heart comes
will such a girl leave home and then
with heart aches and heart rending.
But a girl whose place in the home
is at the table and in bed, won't love
that home. Work makes things sa-
cred. The child whose home memo
ries are not haliowed by work who is
not needed and does rot feel the need,
will not love home. And if she doesn't
love the home of her girlhood she will
love no other. She will go anywhere
for anything. Home will mean Moth
ing for such a woman and if she is
respectable she will only lack the OPP
portunity to be a bad woman and is
good only through circumstances or by
the necessity Of an ugly face. She will
curse the man she marries. The
mothers of this town who are respon-
sible for the girls who CAD the streets
should stop and think what they are
doing. These girls are no longer chill
dren. They are at the impressionable
age. Where will you have the impress
sions come fron--from the riff raft of
the streets or from home? 1t is for
the mothers of this town to settle the
question"