El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-16
MIR. Man, This For You
How are You Doing Your Duty By
Your Daughters In What Way
are You Attempting to Safe
guard Her Future:
BY Dorothy DIX

rR NAN. this article is written
M for you. Are you father
w with daughters?
Are You a brother with sisters2
If YOU are, how are you doing your
duty by your daughter or your sister :
How much real responsibility DO you
feel for herr What are you dong LOT
her happiness2 How are you, protect
ing herr In what way are you at
tempting to safeguard her future2
are You Opposed to Youthful JOys
Are YOU one Of the selfish fathers
who likes TO 90 to bed at eight o CLOCK
and who doesn't want to be disturbed
by young peoples singing and laugh
ing and who makes such a row every
time daughter has company that she
is afraid to invite her friends to her
own home?
children cover before you, whose
daughter is so afraid Of YOU thar her
one idea of happiness Is getting as
far away from You as possible
What do you know about the young
men who visit your daughter and
with whom she goes TO parties, ana
autOmObilinE and the theatert are
they the sort Of men you would ike
her to marry Are they clean ana
honorable, and is she safe with them2
What are you doing to help your
daughter to make the right sort Of q
Brother what do you do Cor your
Do You Take Her Out.
Do you take her out now and then,
to places of amusement. or are YOU
always too tired to go with sister?
Do you try to make things pleas
ant for her. or do you selfsshly go
your own way and let her shift for
herself?
Do you know the men she goes
WITH
You belong to sisters generation;
you can find out all about any young
fellow who is attentive to her, and
you can see that the wrong men are
eliminated from her visiting list, AMI
the right man encouraged to come to
see her. Do you do that2
Do you ever have heart-tO-heart
talks with her and warn her against
little imprudenceS that a girl may
commit through sheer innocence DO
you put her wise to mems point or
view about a girls conduct and dress2
Girls Keen for Pleasure, as Men.
Men have an idea that girls don't
need any amusement or fun. and that
all you've got to do is Just tell them
to remain at home. and they'll stay
put But this isn't true. Girls are
just as keen for pleasure as any man
is. and If they cant get it in the right
way they will take it in the wrong
The father who won't let his daugh-
ter have her beauN at home simply
turns her out on the street to meet
men. If he denies her freedom at
home he drives her into license
abroad. II he raises a row over every
letter she gets at home, he puts a
premium on clandestine correspond
ence.
Youth must have its fling. and girl
hoods is laughter and dancing and rO-
nance, and its simply a question Of
whether a girl has her innocent
amusement i'm her own home. under
the sympathetic yet watchful eyes Of
her parents, or whether she goes to
places on the sly, with strangers with
whom she picks On acquaintance in
questionable ways. and INDUCES in
amusements that orly too often lead
to ruin.
Any father can protect his daugh-
ter from such dangers ANY brother
can save his sister from such peril.
The girl whose father is her best pal
and whose brother is her comrade.
and who is sure of some man Of her
family as a willing escort is never the
cir that gets into trouble.
Fathers and brothers are directly re-