The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-07-08
TRE alBDlRG GIRLS.
A Kansas Editors l::xI1ertation to
Their Retlsers.
SUMTER, s. G.

The mothers Of this Town have had
q lesson--bnt il deesn,S 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 postofhce, as
there were ten days aga Two years ago
She Gazette went after the. mothers Of
Emporia for neglecting their daughters,
and the result was that half a dozen
private mail boxes were discontinued,
and q lot of little gins skat were In
the habit Of gadding 100 much were
kept IN for q time.
These girls are now developing into
Gne Young women, but another crop OF
gadding girls has csne on. and the
Gazette hopes no ouess modesty Will
Be shocked by saying that these
little hussies ought 90 be spanked
good and red. They aare between Il
and Il years old, and are just SO ever
lastingly boy struck that they can't sit
still. If their mothers knew the
type OF boys and men-young human
pups-5hese girls axe cunning with,
thaar mothers would throw fits.
But their mothers koow nothing Of
the situation. They think their little
girls are SO pure and sweet that moth
ing can harm them. The truth is
that these children are made OF the
sane kind Of mud tnatWe are all made
Of, and they are just rs liable to tenn.
psatisn as older people and thousand
times less experienced. And their
mothers let them CAD Commercial
street afer school and Airt 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
duties. The girls who make fools OF
themselves in Emporia are Invariably
overdressed. They wear dudds that
women of thirty should hesitate about
wearing.
.A little girl with too mang and too
costly clothes on her back gets SELF
conscious and vain and loves admlra-
tion-and yon grown up wonen know
the next step. A simple, pure heart
ed girl who has place in a home,
home wori, and home duties, has her
heart there, and no boy can steal it:
Only when maturity Gomez and
wheE real man comes and real
affair of her heart comes will such a
girl leave home, and then only after
heartaches and rending. But girl
whose place IN the home is at the table
and in bed, won't love that home.
Word 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 go anywhere
for anything. Home viii mean moth.
ing to such woman, and if she is
respectable she will only lack the OPP
oortunity to be a bad woman and is
good only through circumstances or by
the necessity of an ugly face. She will
curse any man she marries.
The mothers of this town who are
responsible for the girls who CAD Com
rnercial street, should stop and think
what they are doing. These girls are
no longer children. They are at the
impressionable age. Where will you
have their Impressions come from. from
the riff-raf of the street or from home?
II is for the mothers Of town to settle
the question. .-Empo Kan. Gazette,