The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-08-18
GIRLS WHO CAD.
What William Allen White Has to
Say of Them.

The girls who CAD the streets of
Leon and other towns are problem.
The gadding girl exists everywhere,
just as she is found in Leon In EN-
poria, Kas., the famous William
Allen White has frequently had his
attention called to her and in the in
imitable White way he handles the
subject as follows:
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 after school now, getting their
mail from private boxes in the post
office as there We're days ago. Two
years ago the Gazette went after the
mothers of Emporia for neglecting
their daughters, and the result was
that half dozen private mail boxes
were discontinued and lot of little
girls that were in the habit of CAD
ding too much were kept in for a
time
These girls are now developing in
to fine young women, but another
crop of gadding girls has come.
They are between fourteen and
seventeen years old, and are so ever
lasting boy struck that they can't sit
still. Ii their mothers knew the type
OF boys and young men-young hui
man pups-these birds 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 with the same kind of mud
that we are all made of, and they are
just as liable to temptation as older
people and thousand times less ex-
perienced. And their mothers let
them CAD Commercial street after
school and f1irt 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
| invariably over-dressed.
A little girl with too many and too
costly clothes on her back become
self-conscious and vain and loves ad-
miration-and you grown up women
know the next step. A simple, pure
hearted girl, who has a place in a
home, home work and home duties,
has her heart there, and no boy can
steal it. Only when maturity comes
and real man comes, will such a
girl leave home and then only after
! heart-aches and heart-rending.
| Work makes things sacred. The
child whose home memories are not
hallowed by work, who is not needed
and does not feel the need, will not
love the home. And if she does not
love the home of her girlhood, she
will love no other She will go any
where or do anything Home will
mean nothing to such a woman, and
it she is respectable she will only lack
the opportunity to be a bad woman
and is good only through circum.
stances or by the necessity of hel
ugly face. She will curse any man she
marries
The mothers of this town who are
responsible for the girls who CAD
Commercial street should stop and
think what they are doing. These
girls are no longer children Where
will you have their impressions come
from-from the riff-raff of the streets
or from home? 1t is for the mothers
OF this town to settle the question.