The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-27

fOAHAueHI on the programme was an
address by Julia B. Perry, superintend-
ent of the girls school at Beloit.
Save the Girls.
She said in part:
1T is a mistaken idea that persons
who have once gone wrong can not i'm
bibe right principles and become a
power for good. The world is lust be-
ginning to understand the power of
thought and suggestion. Many a woman
who has gone wrong woula get back
into the right path if she had the help
OF a little love and confidence. A great
majority of our girls can be reclaimed
and restored to lives of purity, honesty,
and truth.
Some one has lilzened a girl to
hundred weight of good iron, which. in
IT'S ordinary form, may not be worth
more than dollar, but, when carbon
Izeu INTO steel, 1t is worth twice as
muchi when made into inch screws a
hundred dollars; If drawn into fine
wire, five hundred dollars: if changed
into fine needles, thousand dollars If
INTO small fish hooks twenty-five hun
dred dollars if not minutest watch
screws, $500, 900. or sixty times
the value of an equal weight of gold.
The higher the development. the more
hdmmering, ating, pf6lling, pounding
ana Poilshlng, the more valuable the
man being placed under "roper training
and surrounded by wholesome fnfu-
ences-the whole bent of his nature be-
comes changed and. he becomes the
lloolest sighe the world offers. If Ire
10 US is glorious, if the path we travel
is fringed with flowers, let us reflect
some OF the glory: let US scatter some
or the flowers and many of the dark
Shea nVes VIII be illuminated with new
light and the perfume of the flowers we
scatter will be sweet incense making
all other life sweeter and purer.
W hen we consider that in our Girls
we nave: First the home making eIe-
ments of the future: second the moth
ers in embryo; third. the cbaracter
builders of the coming generation:
1Oufth' the latent rover for good or evil
that will purify and save or seduce and
ruin. fifth, the caterers of the people.
happiness, or of weakness, disease and
social discOrd it seems to me argument
IS not needed but only the public mind
needs to be awakened mat these tru.ls
be recognized and their Importance ad-
mltted. Think of = Our girls are to
be the hOme-mak ers the future. They
are to become the mothers of the sons
and daughters of the coming genera ton
They are to mould their characters and
lnStil in them right PRINCIPLES and Law in
them the foundation Of good citizenship.
II purity Of thought and action is to
find expression in the lives of the men
and women of the future, our girls as
the mothers must and viii be the Drin-
cipal agents to such an end. AS moth
ers, as home makers, they will as
largely prepare the food for the people.
Il need not take time in this presence. to
convince any one that it is of the first
Importance that our girls be thoroughly
prepared for this work. or to tell the
baneful efforts upon the body spirit
and pocket that follow the ignorance at
this point. Indeed with all this work
to be required at the hands of our girls,
when they shall have developed into the
women of the future is it too much to
say of every girl that shall be born in
the state, that eirl must and shall be
saved?''
Keep Children From Error.
I'VE will get the basis for good gov
eminent if we save the children from
of schools on School Discipline and
the Juvenile Court" Every parent is
responsible for his child's conduct in
school. In our truancy law there is
clause that a child who misbehaves in
school, is like the child that PLAYS
truant. A boy goes to school, worries
his teacher, does everything he can to
break down the discipline. A teacher
talks to him. and tries to persuade
him, but without avail. The parent
fails TO realize this point and preach
this same doctrine to the boy. That is
where the juvenile court comes in. It
makes the parent responsible for the
actions of the boy, and unless the
youngster behaves himself. he goes
before the probate court. We had an
incident that showed the efficacy of our
Juvenile court law. In one of my
schools we have a boy who Just simply