The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
Boarding School

Do you know that the town lis full
OF the lovelicst little girls in the
world? Maybe they wouldn't like mo
TO call them little girls" but that Is
what they really are. with faces as
soft and beautiful AZ flowers and
bright. happy hearts. What are they
going to do tho next few years, be-
tween the time they stop playing dolls
and tuck UP their hair and actually
formally begin to go out in society:
SOME ofSthem right this very
day WALKING UP and down the street
In pretty frocks, with all the boys they
know their own age head over heels
An love with them. They treasure
pressed violess and sleep with little
letters under their pillows, with
world OF sentiment IN their souls that
we have almost forgotten about These
harmless little love affairs are really
AL right. They never hurt anybody
In the world: they just make boys
heart warm and loving and let a
girl lind out little bit OF the
some of these days. But 30 far
80 good. Pretty soon The boys
little girls and right then and there
is the time for mother with any
sense at all TO pack her pretty daugh-
tei'A trunk fc: boarding school
boarding school or college, either
one. Is wonderful developer OF many
other things besides gray matter. It
brings out ali sorts OF nice things In
a girls nature that you never would
have known were there. At home you
can fret and have tcmpers whenever
anything happens TO be the least bit
out OF tho way, an1 my! but aron't
affairs OF the nation upset Given that
sainc girl in that game temper at
boarding school, she very soon finds
out that there ,are at least several
hundred other girls in SCHOOL beside
herself that are probably that very
minute In the most happy frame OF
mind; nobody has time TO bother with
her and her dlsasreeable old feelings.
0iIlH very soon catch on. and the sun
shines on Just the same, and nobody
has time to Notice n mood Mt school
where such fascinating things are al
ways happening and being planned.
ne school IS by no means out OF KEEL
ter because m'iady is peevish
Ihen. too, when girl etays al home
she never quite gets that same inde-
pendent feeling; she has never learned
TO make decisions for herself; true, at
inc time they seemed most momcntous:
enc nae never been In the position
Where she must sink or swim accord
Ing TO her own merit and accomrlish.
1nent. Al school she becomes a part
or n great world that Is her own The
girls therc arc all on tho sau,u foot
ing. and attainment In various ways
IL open TO every ono. II che Is nus
Ing and entertaining with her little
ama'tcring OF lessons al home, give
her mind chance to really learn
something that is in the world bcsid es
the purple eyes Of the boy that carries
her books home from high school
Don't YOU know that many years
from nov. when her l.itlc soul Is up
AGAINST bigger things. il Will be like
tree that has grown sga'nst wall
al It's life: It is fine and thick and
blooming on one side. bu, the other Is
misshapen and stuntcd? 1t hasn't
grown bit on that eide. and there is
"a par; of her nature that no one can
eyer bring out under later circum-
stances. .'end your little daughter to
boarding school, just for ,ittle while:
see what she can do by herself II
Is very healthy at least.
BRENT uyI1.r,