The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-01-02
1.-THE HOME
What Has Become of This Mo
cious of Feminine Divinity ?-Wio
Will Join the Ranks of the Home
Girl for Nineteen Ten?

Girl for Nineteen Ten?
From Social and Otherwise, of Mon
roe, edited and published by Fannie
May Trousdale:
eve are almost out of home girls !;
girls that are mothers right hand =;
girls that can cuddle the little ones next
best to mamma, and smooth out the tan
giles in the domestic skein when things
get twisted; girls that father takes
comfort in for something better than
beauty, and big brothers are proud of
for something that outrankS the ability
of leading dude. :"
S. & o. has paid her respects to the
young men of Monroe, to the mothers
and fathers, all in spirit of charity,
actuated only by that motive that neces-
states the surgeons knife, and now she
has something to say to the girls of this
community; the girls whose influence
for good is the most potent and COM
handing thing that has yet been dis
cussed, or that can play part in the
reclamation of any town or people.
What has become of the home girl?
Can any one tell us whittier she has
gone these latter years? Is she away at
college, or off on a visit, or as she been
kidnapped and never returned?
We look everywhere for her, but we
can not find her. 1t may be that she is
on the street, or at the moving picture
show or the theater or the card party,
a house party or a dance or-just bum
ming" Certainly she is not to be found
at home helping with the children, the
house work, the sewing, though these
things must go on just as in the good
old days in which she divided the house
hold duties with her mother and shared
the burdens which fall heavily upon the
shoulders that grow weary with the
years and sometimes break under the
cross of home-making and child-bear-
ing, and most wearisome of all, in child
rearing, a thing that grows more and
more complicated with each succeeding
year.
The girl who is not helping her moth
er in the home, and no home in Monroe
is so rich that help is not needed, is not
the hope upon which the nation hangs
nor is she the inspiration
from which mankind must seek guild
ance and help in lifting the standard of |
our citizenship.
The girl of today is so taken up with
outside things, so diligent in the under
taking of having a good time, which i
it seems can no longer be found at
home, that she has not thought of a |
duty or an obligation that she owes in
the home
S. & O. knows countless mothers in
Monroe who slave from morning to
night, and sometimes far into the night, |
that idle, discontinued, exacting daugh-
ters may go forth clad in modish raj
ment for the admiration and applause
of the public, to strut her brief hour
upon the stage" and return, still thank |
less and dissatisfied, to exact yet anoth- |
er pound of flesh. Frequently the moth
er goes without comforts, often the re-
quirements of life in the position she, is
entitled to i'll the community, so that
her daughter, who should be shielding
her and taking a pride i'll her appear
ance, might shine in society
1t is the nature OF the mother to sac
rifce for her children; but the daughter
who accepts it all, and makes no return
is not the kind of girl S. & O. is look
ing for Not by any manner of means.
Yes, we are almost ont Of mother
not quite. There are a few
left with which to leaven the whole, |
S. & 0. knows tone just in her teens as /
yet, who THINKS her mother a queen;
who runs to V ait on her; who refuses
to let her MAXI the fire in the stove or
split the kindling or bring in the coal
who takes a ptide and a certain JOY in |
her If she is ailing, and bring I
ing her breakfast in to her; who rel
proves any one who makes a noise or
disturbs her and who IS, in short, such |