New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-15
A GIRLS HAPPINESS.
False Ideas of Life on Which She Is Reared
Wholesome Enjoyment

ct think the most pathetic thing IN the world is
the happiness which young people lose by not en-
tering married life with the right kind Of ideals
think it IS more pathetic than the whole story Of
the sums If I going TO be a missionary I
would start out right along those lines
So spoke Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick Yesterday. TO
an assembly OF Brooklyn women gathered in her
parors at No 10 South Oxford-st.. to hear her
lecture THE Adolescent Girl"
Il do young and who
have had Of the advantages Of life" she CON
tinued- II mean young and women who have
been raised In good homes by fathers and mothers
who intended TO do everything that was right for
their children; TO give them every opportunity for
happy life And yet. because Of false ideas on the
most important OF all human relations, their mar
ried happiness is wrecked.
The predominant idea with which the majority
OF girls OF THIS class approach marriage is that
a blg wedding and many presents These loom up
IN the foreground In the background Is a pleasant
home over which they are to be mistress
her duties as mother the girl too often looks
upon as the price she must pay for these ad-
vantages. She has no idea of the sweetness there
might be for her in this relaton-of the happiness
she herself might get OF IT. Why should sbe2
she mas never had high ideal in this connection
implanted in her mind. She has never heard any
person in her life. probably approach II win anv
reverence dignity.
The changing Industrial conditions" continued
the speaker. have sent girls into the world in
money earning occupations I'm numbers that no
previous generation has known In factorv sbo,,
office and profession the girl will meet men OF all
kinds and classes; men who have not been intro
duced TO her socially under safe shelter of her
own roof or a friends. and who have for her no
regard except such as her personality impels
And I am sorry to say that with the spread NJ
European ideas among IT Is not among factory
hands that girls will the most danger
GUS men, but in the most intellectual classes The
spread Of ideas inimical to the home the family
and social purity, is due the direct propagation
OF a school Of thought which finds its chief sup
porters among the intellectual classes"
DR. Sophie b. Scheel Of the school board Of
District No. 49, gave interesting but rather
SAD glimpse OF girl life IN the Bohemian city OF
some 10000 inhabitants which lies on the upper
East Side
We have children IN school who have actually
raised families" said she The Bohemian mothers
work IN tho factory. They return 10 their work
when their baby is three weeks old The baby IS
turned oyer 20 the Oldest daughter, provided she
factory herself These little girls actually long
Tor The time to come when they will go 10 the
a release from the everlasting drag upon them of
the babies that are always being showed INTO their
poor little arms . - -
earning and begins to contribute 10 the family
expenges she just that extent throws OF
Darental control There Is place at home for
her TO receive company or enjoy social pleas res
Where il she going 10 have them
For such girls the recreation centres are a Cod
eerd There she finds light brightness wholesome,
healthy amusement. The worlo mas Always ~
Tnittec the absolute necessity OF amusement IoF
boys bece 1se il knows they van make Srouoie u
fbev are not provides with it, It has been isss
tariiy in recognizing the girls equal need and de-
mRnd Tor amusement
evil and cruelty TO thousands OF girls" 81:
Dr. Chadwick viii lecturs next MONDAY az 90"
o m. at her home. The Adolescent Boy