Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-29
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Home Maker
EDITED BY
ALICE F. TALCOTT.
School of Work.
(By Hilda Richmond.)

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Il am so worried about Emily
said a perplexed mother several
years ago. "She wants to leave
school and find something to do in
spite of all we can say to her. We
have set our hearts on giving her
just as much schooling as we can
but she seems determined to stop"
How old is Emily?" asked the
friend who remembered her as a
bright girl, pretty and well man
nered.
"She will be 16 her next birth
day." said the mother "In two
years she would graduate, and /
think then it would be time enough
for her to begin earning her own
money. 1 do wish you would try to
persuade her to stay at home and go
to school. l know many people think
we ought to have enough authority
to compel her to do as we say, but
/ have noticed that when parents
make their children go to school
against their wills the boys and girls
are idle and inattentive"
What are her reasons for want
ing to work."
''She sees the other girls with bet
ter clothes than we can afford to
buy and that makes her discomfort
ed. l do wish mothers who can af-
ford to spend lots of money on their
children would not send them to
school in fine clothes. Emily thinks
that if she earned money clerking in
a store or working in a factory she
could have better clothes than her
father can provide for her."
But if she leaves school now she
will find herself sadly lacking in
many branches" said the friend
She had better wait until few years
later and get better position"
THAT is just what we tell her."
said Emily's mother. "She could
probably get place as clerk, but
the hours are too long for a growing
girl. In this town they keep the
stores open every. evening and that
makes it late for a girl who should
have plenty of sleep. Emily is not
delicate, but l want her to keep the
health l have worked so hard to es-
tablish for her."
Nothing more was said to dissuads
the young girl and when vacation
time came she was allowed to find ;
situation in store as a clerk wher,
she received SO per week for he
work as beginner She was abb,
to buy some fine dresses, entirel!
unsuitable for a girl in her circum
stances, but she had no place to wea
them, for the store made picnics an,
. good times with her mates impossi
BILE.
AT the store she discovered tha
thorough knowledge of arithmeti
and other branches was necessar
for good work, and her ideas of earn
ing her own money were completel
revolutionized in a few weeks. Sh
found that the girls who expecte
advancement were those who wer
constantly on the alert to learn
while the lazy ones must always b
content with low wages until the
were replaced as fast as possible b.
more competent ones. She foun
that success comes only throug
hard work and that the more educa
tion girl has the better she is fit
ted for any place in life.
OF her own free will she resigne
her place at the beginning of tn
school term and gave herself dill
gently to her studies until she grad
uated, and then readily found a plac
far in advance of the one she ma
given up. She is now a busy, activ
business woman and she attribute
it to that one summer when she di
as she pleased and found that it wa
more pleasant and profitable to d
as her parents wished her to do.