The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-11-26
Heart to Heart
Talks.
Copy. ight. 1908. by Edwin A. Nye
HER KINGDOM FOR A DRESS.
By EDWIN A. NYE.

SeCuTeu SOWu IL WHICH Die COulu
outshine her girl companions at a
party.
The girl was afterward arrested and
acknowledged in court that her long
ing for fancy clothes led her to COM
NIT the illegal act.
The judge fined her S25, which was
paid by her father.
According to the fathers statement.
the girls humiliation might have been
averted but for the desire to excel in
dress. She wanted to emulate the ex-
ample of girls whose parents were
rich.
MY daughter has frequently told
me-" he said. that unless she could
be dressed as we'll as her chums they
would not want to associate with her.
MY daughters sad case should be
warning to other girls Of middle cir
cumstances who try to emulate girls
whose parents are wealthy"
Mr.. North says his daughter asked
him with tears in her eyes for a new
gown for the select party. He felt he
could not afford to crafty her. On
the impulse of the moment she secured
the gown by false pretenses and made
the misstep which brought her bitter
disgrace and her family deep chagrtn.
The lesson is not merely for girls.
1t is for schoolteachers and parents.
The public school Is or ought to be
a pure democracy. Any considerable
dress defeats the equality and frater-
nifty of the school and should be
frowned upon. Every child should be
made to feel entirely at home in the
schoolroom.
Parents should keep the desire for
expensive school clothes out of the
heads of their girls.
1t matters not If the parents are
financially able to buy fancy clothes.
They are out of place in the school
room.
Such dressing fosters trait in girls
that needs no encouragement. In
stinctively they desire to wear pretty
clothes. but these need not necessarily
be expensive clothes. There is plenty
of time further OF in their lives for
elaborate and costly toilets.
Poor Margaret North.
Desire for dress, that craving for
beautiful things which has ruined the
lives Of so many women, has made OF
her an early victim. She has paid her
penalty.
How many youthful hearts have
ached aud yearned and suffered
hearts of the myriad children Of the
Door!
SOWING WILD OATS.
"Oh, after he has sowed his wild
oats he will settle down.
But will he?
There is a popular impression that
youth-male youth. not female-must
have its fling; that It is a necessary
experience in the evolution ct man.
But if so why not let the girl SOW
her wild oats? Why not let her gain
her experience in scattering evil?
"Oh, that's different" you say.
How different?
What has the boy to gain in knowl-
edge of evil things and practice of
evil ways that girl may not gain!
And If the young man can SOW with
reckless hand and then miraculously
settle down to an exemplary life why
not girl also?
Don't you see it is all wrong. this
wild oats finging to the wind?
Don't you see the danger OF reaping
the whirlwind?
He who sows wild oats must reap
wild oats-not wheat. whatsoever a
man soweth that also shall he reap"
And not only must he reap the sort
Of grain he sows. but more than he
sows. Evil propagates evil. A grain
of wheat will ''stool out" in the grow
ing. producing many stalks for the
harvest, which make tough reaping.
1t is hard work, this harvesting of
evil seed. The stalks are tangled and
tough. and the sweat must pour from
the faces of the harvesters.
Young man
Many a man of middle age today
who has fought his way out Of this
snarled harvest field into the open
would give his right hand to blot out
the scars aud the memories of that
reaping. He shudders when he thinks
what the result of his sowing may
have been to others-if not to himself.
"Whatsoever a man soweth''-if the
young men only knew.
Many Of the sewers struggle and so
down in the intertwisted mat OF the
harvest. You have seen them hope
lessly entangled!
You will come out all right?
Let US hope you may. but you will
be weaker man than you should have
been. The odds are against you The
tangle Of the weeds and the tares is
about your feet.
wv batsoever"-not something else
whatsoever you sow you shall reap.
And you must reap more than you
SOW.
That law OF the moral world Is just
as true as the law Of gravity in phys
les or the law OF capitalization In
chemistry.
''whatsoever"-not less, but
More! @-s
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