Evening star., 1907-10-31
TRAINING OF YOUNG GIRLS
MRS. BOLTON READS PAPER ON
THAT TOPIC.
Meeting of Diocesan Sunday School
Institute at Church of
the Epiphany.

| Mrs. Henrietta Irving Bolton, diocesan
president of the Girls Friendly Society
read paper on How the Church Car
Help to Train the Girl in Christian Wom
anhood' yesterday afternoon at The
| eleventh annual convention of T." Sunda y
school institute of the diocese II Wash
! ington, held at the Church o the Epiph-
any. She freely criticised modern mothers
| for their laxity in training their daugh-
| ters, and held that going to problem
plays and engaging in gossiping are bad
! for girls. She advocated a law for the
District regulating child labor.
| Rev. Alfred Harding, pastor of st. Paul's
Church, presided and Bishop Satterlee
opened the meeting by administering holy
communion. A devotional address WIS
delivered by Rev. c. c. Pierce chaplain
United States Army. There We're pres
ent al the convention 200 delegates, rep
resenting thirty-tWo Sunday schools, with
5000 children.
Mrs. Bolton IN her paper declared that
there are no laws in Washington govern
ing the hours and conditions for the labor
of women and girls, and that there a: e
more wage earners Of this sex in the
state in the Union. She contended that
man. of these women and girls work
under deplorable conditions. She be
lieves that mothers of girls and church
women can do the most good for girls
by giving them a good and healthful ex-
ample to follow. She does not think that
religion mixes well with social frivolities,
attending risque plays and talking scan
dal. 1T is a bad example for young
girl to see her mother aunt attending
devotional services on Sunday and on
the next day see them attending one of
the up-to-date, immoral, sO-cAlled problem
plays" she said Mrs. Bolton laid much
stress on the personal influence of the
churchwoman as means OF training
the young girls of the church.
Church Indignant.
Mrs. Bolton concluded by saying: The
church thrills with Indignation over the
condition of the outcast child
widows of Hindustan. 1t weeps over the
outcast girl babies of China, and the
slave girls of Africa, and not only listens
and weeps, but works, spending money
and lives lavshly to remedy these and
similar evils, Drawing the dangers of race
antagonism and international strife to
carry to distant lands. with the good
news of the gospel story help for body,
and mind, and soul, and yet the child
Ia horers in factories all over this land,
the little messenger boys delivering tele-
grams far into the night, and often fed
into horrible and degrading situations,
the girls laboring sixteen hours and more
a day in laundry or candy factory, the
little bundle wrapper doing her monoto-
nous task in badly ventilated and over
heated cubby holes. are not championed
by the church to which, by virtue of their
baptism, they belong"
Miss Catherine Watkins, director of kim
dergartens in the public schools, in charge
of the primary department of Ascension
parish, read a paper on The Training of
the Religious Instinct in Children" and
Rev. Charles c. Hayes, D. D., professor
IF Christian apologetics, General Theo-
logical Seminary, read a paper on Teach
ng Appropriate to the Stages of the
Child's Development"
The institute elected these officers for
the ensuing year: President, ex officio,
Bishop Satterlee first vice president.
Rev. Alfred Harding; second vice p:esi-
dent, Rev. w. J.. Devres, D. D.: secre
tary-treasurer, E. S. Hutchinson.