Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-14
SAYS MODERN GIRL IS
TOO MUCH PAMPERED
MISS IDA LINDLEY ISSUES
WARNING
Class Day Address at Marlborough
School Occasion of Pointed Talk to
Mothers-"FIne Clothes More
Important Than Study"

The class day exercises OF the MARI
borough preparatory school for girls
under IA were held Friday afternoon In
the auditorium of the school, $3.50 West
Adams street. and were the occasion OF
strong warning issued by Miss Ida
c. Lindley. principal Of the school, who
delivered the class day address.
Seventy girls, all clad in white, sat
on the stage with the eight graduates,
forming a pretty picture.
Adelaide Gosnell played Beethoven's
sonata, opus No. 2, and at the close of
vocal solo by Miss Gosnell.
The following girls graduated and re-
ceived their class pins: Miss Eleanor
Banning. Marion Fitzhugh. Florence
Hamilton, Marguerite Hughes, Lulu
Lanterman, Margaret Leonard, Jean
Lindsey and Gypsy Richardson. The
Misses Florence Hamilton and Harri-
cite Booth received pins as honor pu-
pills in spelling, and Mary Hughes re-
ceived the prize as honor pupil in
courtesy.
~ Miss Lindley in her class day address
spoke on a subject directed to the
parents. She said:
Children Love Poetry
I'VE find in the nursery. kindergarten
and primary school that children love
to listen to the reading of beautiful
poetry, though there may be many ex-
pressions and ideas that they do not
Bible history are made interesting to
very young children through such books
as old Stories of the East
"a connected knowledge of mytholo-
gy, the history Of Greece. of Rome, of
England and other countries is gained
by careful direction OF the books that
are read to very young children and by
older ones.
'Tn connection with a class in geogra-
ply in this school the teacher has read
to these girls twice a week from Pick
o'-Pook's HILL by Rudyard Kipling. by
means of which the girls have an i'm
pressive picture of early English his
tory. They also have been interested
in early French history by reading to
them in the same way stories OF Ro-
land.
s'If parents would keep themselves in
formed OF the studies of their children
thus could the children's knowledge be
constantly extended. and thus would
parents and children be bound more
closely together in their home life.
Too Much "cIothes Talk"
with the ambition of many mothers
of the present day to have the fullest
complement of dresses and lingerie,
hand made tucks, dainty feather stitch
ing, graceful and intricate patterns of
embroidery on yoxes collars and bands.
II is almost impossible In find place in
the daily program where the child may
be taught to discriminate between, for
example, the Elsie Booksi and Haw-
thorne's 'Tanglewood Tales The Dotty
DImple series, and Lambs Tales from
Shakespeare The Little Colonel
books and Mara Pratt's or Blaisdell's
history stories of America; or to APP
preciate the difference between the pro-
sale rhymes found In the papers that
floor our homes and Robert Louis Stew
enson's "A Child's Garden of Verses
some of Wordsworth's musical ballads,
Longfellow's 'Hiawatha,' and many.
many others that reveal the mystery of
mythology. painting, history and liter
allure, step by step.
when the girl enters her teens the
taste for romance increases rapidly-a
most favorable time for the father and
the mother to teach discrimination be-
tween the uplifting of the classic ro-
niances and the lamentable lowering of
the sensational love story
"Amusements, recreation, pampering
seem to be the sum and substance of
the duty of the parents to the children
at present, outside Of housing and
clothing them.
ITO reward child or to celebrate