Willmar tribune., 1903-08-08
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The following from the Emporia.
Kansas, Gazette, has 90 much Of ofvalue.
and truth In it that we republisl1 It for
the possible benefit of Willmar young
ladies and their parents, who may get
q valuable hint therefrom:
The mothers of this town have had
alesson-but it doesn't seem to have
done them any good. There are just
as many girls gadding around town
after school now, getting their mail
from private boxes in the post-office,
as there were ten days ago. Two
years ago the Gazette went after the
mothers OF Emporia for neglectirg
their daughters, and the result was
that halt dozen private mail boxes
were discontinued and lot of little
girls that were in the habit of gadding
too much were kept in for q time.
Those girls are now developing into
fine young women, but another crop
OF gaddiDg girls has come on, and vhe
Gazette hopes no ones modesty will
be shocked by saying that these little
hussies ought to be spanked good and
red. They are between fourteen and
seventeen years old, and are just 80
everlastingly boy-struok that they
can't sit still. If their mothers knew
the type OF boys and men-youpg hu-
man pups-these girls are running
with their mothers would throw fits.
But their mothers known nothing
OF their situation. They think their
little girls are 80 sweet and pure that
nothing can harm them. The truth is
that these children are made of the
same kind of mud that we are all
made of and are just as liable to
temptation as older people and q
thousand times less experienced.
And their mothers let them CAD Com.
mercial street after school and firt
with all kinds OF men, and then their
mothers wonder how the devil got
them and think the girls must stake
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
duties. The girls who make fools of
themselves in Emporia are invariably
overdressed. They wear duds that
women Of thirty would hesitate about
wearing.
A little girl with too many and too
costly clothes on her back gets self
conscious and vain and loves admira-
tion-aud you grown.up women know
the next step A simple, pure minded
girl who has place in q home, home
work and home duties, has her heart
there, and no boy can steal it. Only
when maturity comes and real man
comes and a real affair of her heart
comes will such a girl leave home, and
then only after heartaches and heart.
rondings. But girl whose only
place in the home is at the table and
in bed won't love that home.
Work makes things sacred. The
child whose home memories are not
hallowed by work, who is not needed
and does not 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 90 anywhere
for anything. Home will mean moth.
ing to such woman, and if she is
respectable she will only lack the op.
portunity to be bad woman, and is
good only through circumstances or
the necessity of an ugly face. She
will curse any man she marries.
The mothers of this town who are re
sponsible for the girls who CAD Com
mercial street should stop and think
what they are doirg. These gir's are
no longer children. They are at the
impressionable age. Where will you
have their impression come from,
from the riff raft of the street or from
home? 1t is time for the mothers of
this town to settle the question.-Em.
poria kan. Gaze .te.