Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-07-17
ADYIGEIo MOTHERS or 81, cs1RLs

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The following. from the Emporla
|(Kansas Gazette, strikes at con-
ditiona that exist IN many places:
The mothers Of this town have had
{. lesson-but is does not seem to have
done them any good. There are just
as many girls gaddinR around town
after school now. getting their mail
from private boxes in the postoffice,
ss there was ten days ego. Two
years ago the Gazette went after the
mothers of Emporia for neglecting
their daughters, and the result was q
half dozen private mail boxes were
discontinued and a lot Of little girls
that were in the habit of Qadding too
much were kept In for q time.
Those girls are now developing into
fine young women, but another crop
OF young gadding girls has come on.
and thu Gazette hopes no one e
modesty will be shocked by saying
that these little hussies ought to be
spanked. They are between fourteen
and seventeen years old. and are just
so everlasting boystruck that they
can't sit still. If their mothers
knew they type Of boys and MEL
young human pups-these girls are
running with, their mothers would
throw fits.
But their mothers know nothing
of the situation. They think their
little girls are so 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 they are as liable to
temptation as older people and
q thousand times less experienced.
And their mothers let them flirt with
all kinds Of men, and their mothers
wonder how the devil got them and
think the girls must "take AFTER
their father.
There are just tw 0 things that will
keep girls straight at that age, one is
plain clothes and the other ia home
du les. The gi1ls that 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 ad-
miration-and 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, real affair of
her heart comes, will such a girl leave
home, and then only after heartaches
and heartrendings. But girl whose
only place in the home is at the
table and 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 the home And if she doesn't
love the home Of her girlhcod, she
will never love any other. She will go
anywhere for anything. Home will
mean nothing to such a woman and If
che is respectable che will only lack
the opportunity to be a bad woman,
and is good only through circum-
stances or by the necessity of an ugly
face. She will curse any man ehe
marries.
The mothers Of this town who are
responsible for the girls who CAD on
the street should stop and think what
they are doing. These girls are no
longer children. Ttey are at the i'm
questionable age. Where will you
have their impression come from
from the raft of the streets or from
home? It is for the mothers of this
town to settle the question.