Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-04-27
The RESTLESS GIRL
SOCIETY AND HONE OFFERS A
FAIR FIELD FOR TALENTS.
Girls Now Educated on a Broader
Plane Than Formerly-More Eager
to Make Their Own Way-F;elds
for the Restless Girl-None Better
Than the Home Hardship on
Mothers.
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.

BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
Copyright. 1906. by Joseph r. Bow!es.)
When Phebe and I were girls we
looked forward to a pleasant time at
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 a
very different outlook on life. shall
never admit that they have had a bet
ter education than ours for the mis-
sion of womanhood, but l 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 &C.
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
only good foundation on which to
build, in which case they have sought
further opportunities; or else they
have desired a professional or 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 frittering 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
idleness when there is so much work
to be done in the world beyond the
home.
No one can fail to 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-
tfons profound and wonderful, is one
of the finest forces of our civilization.
Our educated young women are loudly
called for, not alone in our home land,
but everywhere on earth. In Syria
and Ceylon. in Japan and Hi1dustan,
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 earn 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 own 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
ment.
Some inherit wealth. The richest
woman in America, the one most loved
and honored, Helen Miller Go*:ld. can
not be called business woman, but
she manages her wide int ests with
the peculiarly marked talent .or finance
inherent in her family, and SHOWS
plainly what rank woman may take
in looking after large affairs.
Il take off my hat to her brain and
her heart whenever 1 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 D.
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 our girls are restless
when so much beckons them from the
outside and they feel in themselves
the capacity for success. at least do
not blame them. fully comprehend
the allurements and the sweetness of
the call that sounds in their ears. And
yet deprecate the restlessness of our
girls and view it with no little regret.
1t is, in a way, an unfairnegs to their
mothers, in the case of rich girls who
need not add to the family exchequer.
1t is, in Way, a menace to content
ment when the married woman shall
settle down to the quiet monotony of