The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-01
THE RESTLESS GIRL
SOCIETY AND HOME OFFERS A
FAIR FIELD FOR TALENTS.
Girls Now Educated On a Broader
Plane Than Formerly-More Eager
to Make Their Own Way-Fields
for the Restless Girl-None Better
Than the Home - Hardship on
Mothers.
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.

men HneDe ana l were girls we
looked forward to a pleasant time a
home, with plenty of fun and freedom
friends coming and going, possibly the
stir of weddings in some not remote
future. The girls of our day did not
say very much about it, but it was
part of their unwritten programme one
day or other to be married and have
homes Of their own.
Phebe's daughters and mine had q
very different outlook on life. l shall
never admit that they have had a bet
ter education than ours for the mis-
sion of womanhood, but I cannot deny
that they have had an education on a
broader plane and on more scientific
lines. They have had the mental dis
cipline and the intellectual training ac-
corded to their brothers, and when
they have been graduated they have
very naturally desired to put their edu-
cation to some practical use. Either
they have realized, and if they are en-
thusiastic students, this is a matter of
course, that a college curriculum is
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build, in which case they have sought
further opportunities; or else they
have desired a professional OF business
career. They have preferred to earn
money, rather than to have it given
them.
To spend time at home in leisurely
elegance, helping with housekeeping,
visiting and receiving visitors, shop
ping, and fritteri1g strength on little
duties, seems a fiavorless and fruit
less thing to some of our finest girls.
Their brothers are in the arena. There
is no reason Why they should rust in
ldlenesS when there is SO much work
10 be done in the world beyond the
home.
No n can fail 20 sympathize with
the .reStleSsneSS of the modern girl.
She simply feels the pressure of the
surrounding atmosphere. Every one
she sees is busy. Why should she be
the only exception? There is room
enough for our eager-hearted girls in
philanthropy, where they may live in
college settlements and help their sis
tiers whose lives are pitifully meager.
The universal need for the trained
nurse in the sick room has opened
widely another door for women who
wish to be Of service TO their age.
Teachers are urgently in demand, and
their training cannot now be too thor
ough, nor their devotion too great to
the splendid profession they select.
The gentlewoman engaged in teach
ing. whether in the kindergarten
among the babies or in the classroom
where the seniors grapple with ques-
lions profound and wonderful. is one
of the finest forces of our civilization.
Our educated young women are loudly
but everywhere on earth. In Syria
and CeylOn, in Japan and Hindustan,
in South Africa and the Philippines. all
around the globe. there are places
waiting for our American woman
teachers and our American women
physicians, and wherever they go they
are carrying with them the best our
country has to show and give.
In business circles there are chances
for clever girls, not merely for those
girls who arm a weekly wage. and
who must always be in the majority,
but for girls who have the grasp. the
steadiness, and it may be the audacity,
of business men. A girl often succeeds
beyond her WI hopes, when she is
enabled, by the aid of some capital
and her own pluck and fearlessness. to
do what her brothers have done for
years and years without eliciting COM
Some inherit wealth. The richest
woman in America, the one most loved
and honOred, Helen Miller Gould, can
not be called a business woman, but
she manages her wide interests with
the peculiarly marked talent for finance
inherent in her family, and shows
what rank a woman may take
in looking after large affairs.
Il take off my hat to her brain and
her heart whenever / pass Helen
Gould's door," said a man of authority
in the world of business, yet l have
never seen the lady to my knowledge"
Had he met her he would have seen a
fair woman of low voice and gracious
manner, some years under 40, still en-
titled by courtesy to the honors of girl
hood.
No wonder Il girls are restless
when SO much beckons them from the
and they feel in themselves
he capacity for success. | at least do
not blame them. / fully comprehend
he alIurements and the sweetness of
he call that sounds in their ears. And
yet | deprecate the restlessness of our
Urls and view it with no little regret.
t is, in a way, an unfairness TO their
mothers, in the case of rich girls who
reed not add to the family e%xchequer.
t is, in a way, a menace to content
nent when the married shall
down to the quiet monotony of
Ter wifehood and the e~xhausting de-
hands of her motherhood.
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