The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-14
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
PLAIN REMARKS FROM WESTERN
PAPER ABOUT GADDING GIRLS.
women Who Live Most Retain Their
Youth Best-Gradual Changes i'm
Fashion-Odds and Ends.

The mothers of this town. says William
Allen Whites paper, the Emporia, Kan,
Gazette, have had lesson-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 postoffice, as
there were ten days ago. Two years ago
the Gazette went after the mothers of En-
poria for neglecting their daughters and
the result was that half a dozen private
mail boxes were discontinued and lot Of
little girls that were in the habit of CAD
ding too much were kept in for time.
These girls are now developing into fine
young women, but another crop of CAD
ding 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 be-
tween fourteen and seventeen years old,
and are just so everlastingly boy-struck
that they can't sit still. If their mothers
knew the type Of boys and men-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 just liable
to temptation as older people and thou
sand times less experienced. And their
mothers let them CAD Commercial street
after school and fiirt 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
a
clothes and the other is home duties. The
girls who make fools of themselves in Elm
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 and
vain and loves dmiration-and you grown
up women know the next step. simple,
pure-hearted girl who has a place in a
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 girl leave home and then only after
heartaches and heart rending. But 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 IL she
doesn't love the home of her girlhood she
will love no other. She will go anywhere
for anything. Home will mean nothing to
such woman, and If she is respectable she
will only lack the opportunity to be bad
woman, and is good only through circum-
stances or by the necessity of ugly face.
She will curse any man she marrieS.
The mothers Of this 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.