Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-07-07

The world is full of impatient little
girls who think they know more than
their parents.
Hardly Il day passes that the mail
does not bring Il number of letters from
girls who complain that their parents
exercise too great care over them, and
invariably the letters end with Don't
you think that l am old enough to judge
for myself in such mattersE
Now. | am fully aware that the age
of Is and thereabouts is a very wise age
and that one feels very worldly wise
and experienced.
Having gone through it, l am at lib
erty to give an opinion, and let me say
dear girls. that the things one does not
know at IS would fill the very largest
book ever written.
1t is all very well to chafe and fret at
the restrictions placed upon your con
duct by your parents, but you need ev-
cry one of those restrictions.
Your parents always know best. No
one i'll the world has your welfare so
much at heart as they.
If your father objects to anyone of
your men friends you may be pretty sure
that he has some very good reason for
his objections.
Il stands to rCason that lc should be a
better j.. lgc Of men than III with your
limited experience could expect to be.
He knows the ways of the world and
the pitfalls that lie in the path of TN
wary little feet.
Your mother is the best and most UNI
selfish friend you have III the world, and
if you form the habit of making conf
dant of her you can never so very far
aStIay.
Tell her your secrets. She will guard
them as faithfully as you would your
self.
Do not think her unreasonable when
she insists that you should be in off the
street at an early hour in the evening,
for she realizes that girls cannot afford
to risk the least breath of criticism.
Some day when YOU are married and
have daughters of your own you will I'M
derstand the loving anxiety that prompts
your mother to guard you so carefully.
She wants you to marry a good, true
man. and that is the reason she is so par
ticuIar about the friendships you form
and the manner i'll which you conduct
Yourself.
She knows that the right kind Of men
seek the girl that has good home
training.
When YOU lose your heart to Yaan
and your parents refuse TO allow him to
come to the house, you feel that they
are cruel and that you are a .auch
abused person.
Of course no one is iufalibe and
sometimes parents make mistakes
through their over-anxiety. but time al
ways shows a man up in mis- proper col
ors. and if the man YOU love is worthy
he will eventually prove himself To be
80 and win your parents approval.
Girls of u often imagine them
selves deeply in love with men whom
they do not in reality love mt all. 1t is
merely a case of fascination
The parents, more WISE than the girl
realize this and naturally do their best
10 keep her from spelling her life by
marrying him.
TIE girl thinks her heart is broken and
that her parents are monsters of cruelty.
In reality she owes them an everlasting
debt Of gratitude.
So don't be impatient Of the home fet-
tiers. little maidens: they are the best.
the wisest. the most loving of all letters
and the more careful Your parents guard
You the happier, better woman you will
be philadelphia Evening Bulletin.