The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
MOTHER DOES YOUR.
DAUGHTER CAD?
the Girl Who Gads the Streets Exists
Everywhere Just the Same
as In Old Keo-
kuk.
BETWEEN IA AND II
Lasses Of That Age Get 50 Boy
struck They Can't SIT stu
Says a Noted
Writer.
BETWEEN IA AND II

\, ctr,s who CAD the streets are
nrohlem everywhere Many tale
so,,ld the notice tell ii they wished to
about this particular brand OF feml-
ninity, If they were; given to taking on
This one particular subject, but the
great value of their work lies IN the
fact that they work quietly and to the
hest interests of misguided girls ana
especially those who CAD" The CAD
ding girl exists everywhere, Just the
same as in Keokuk. In Emporla Kan
sas. the famous William Allen White
has oftimes had his attention called TO
her and in his inimitable White way,
deals with the subject in the following
manner:
"The mothers of this town have had
a lesson but it. doesn't seem to have
done them any good. There is just as
many girls gadding around town att
er school now, getting their mail from
private boxes in the postoffice as there
we're days ago. Two years ago the Ga
zette went after the mothers OF EN-
poria for neglecting their daughters,
and tie result was that half dozen
private mail boxes were discontinued
and all of the little girls that were IN
the habit of gadding too much were
kept in for a time.
These girls are now developing into
fine young women, but another crop OF
gadding girls has come.
They are between fourteen and sew
enteen years old and are so everlast-
ingly boy-struck that they can't sit
still If their mothers knew the type
of boys and young men-young human
pups-these girls are running with,
their mothers would have fits.
But their mothers know nothing OF
the situation They think that their
little girls are SO sweet and pure that
nothing can harm them. The truth is
that these children are made OF the
same kind of mud that we are all made
of and they are just as liable to temp
tatien as older people and thousand
times less experienced And their
mothers let them CAD Commercial
street after school and flirt with all
kinds of men, and then wonder how
the devil got Them and think the girls
must take after their father.
There are two things that will help
to make girls straight at that age;
one is plain clothes and the other is
home duties. The girls who make fools
of themselves in Emporia are invari
bly, overdressed
little girl with too many and toe
costly clothes on Ter back becomes
selfconscious and vain and loves adj
mlratlon--a and you grown-up womer
knew the next step. A simple, pure
hearted girl, who has a place In {
nome work and home duties, has hel
heart there, and no boy can steal it
Only when maturity comes and rea
man comes and real affair OF he
neart complete; will such a girl leave
home, and then only after heartache
and heart rending.,
Work makes things sacred. TIL,
child whose home memories are no
hallowed does not feel the need, vii
not love the home. Il And If she doe
not love the home of her girlhood, sh,
oSC ~ otuei. one VIII 80 any
Where for anything Home will meal
nothing to such a woman and if sh,
IS respectable she will only lack tn,
opportunity to be a bad woman, ant
is good only through circumstances O
by the necessity of an ugly face. Sh,
will curse any man she marries.
The mothers of this town who ar,
responsible for the girls who CAD Com
Inercial street should stop and thinl
what they are doing. These girls ar,
no longer children. Where will 70,
have their impressions come from
from the riff-raff of the street or iron
home. 1t is for the mothers of thi
town to settle the question.
Prof w r Sheefz IF Rurlinpo,, ua