Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06
GADDING GIRLS.
What William Allen Whites Paper
Has to Say to Their Mothers.

From the Emporia Gazette.
The mothers of this town have had a les
son-but it doesn't seem to have done them
any good. There are just as many girls
gadding around town after school now, get
ting Their mail from private boxes in the
post office, as there were ten days ago. Two
years ago the Gazette went after the moth
ers of Emporia for neglecting their daugh-
tiers, and the result was that half dozen
private mail boxes were discontinued and
lot of little girls that were in the habit
of gadding too much were kept in for a
time.
These girls are now developing into nne
young women, but another crop of gadding
girls has come on, and the 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 so
everylastingly boy-struck that they can I
sit still II their mothers knew the type OF
boys and men-young human pups-thess
girls are running with their mothers "oulo
throw fits. ,
Put their mothers know nothing or the
situation They think their little girls are
so sweet and pure that nothing can Marin
them The truth is that these chlldren are
made of the same kind of mud that we are
all made of and they are just as lapie 10
temptation as older people and thousand
+irnes loss experienced. And their mothers
let them CAD Commercial street after schooi
and flirt with all kinds of men, ana tnen
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 pam
clothes and the other is home duties. The
girls who make fools of themselves in En-
poria are invariably overdressed. They wear
buds that women of thirty should hesitate
about wearing. .
A little girl with too many and too costly
clothes on her back gets self-conscious ana
vain and loves admiration-and you grown
up women know the next step. A SIMPLE
pure hearted girl who has a place in a
home home work and home duties, has her
heart there. and no hoy can steal 1t. Only
when maturity comes and real man comes
and real affair of her heart comes VII
such a girl leave home and then only after
heartacheS and heart rending- But n girl
whose 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 Size will go anywhere
for anything. Home viii mean nothing to
such a woman, and if she is respectable she
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 she marreS.
The mothers of tbs town who are re-
sponsible for the girls who CAD Commercial
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 impression come from
from the riff-raff of the street or from
home? 1t is for the mothers of this town
to settle the question