Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-09-23
The Girl Who Complains
Of Tyrannical Parents. zee.
Stand Anything Short of Perse-
cution Rather Than Leave Home.

I his eyes to see that her mother has been
strict with her, and that she has been
carefully guarded. Just to know that he
has to take her home at a proper hour,
and that he has to conduct himself with
discretion In order to be received as a
guest in her home. makes even the most
callow youth treat a girl with more re-
! spect.
For these very practical reasons every
girl should cling to her home as long as
she can. 1t is a cloak of protection about
her. 1t is a halo OF respectability. 1t is
q sheet anchor that holds her safe in
many a storm OF temptation. Not with
out reason do we talk about the shelter
Of home. II is a blessing for which every
girl who has one should give thanks on
her knees and 1t is a tragedy when a
foolish young creature throws away what
she should cherish most
Besides this, no matter IL parents are
sometimes a little overbearing and tyran-
meal, they are always a girls best
friends. They love her more than any
body else ever will; they have her in
terest more at heart, and when trouble
comes to her they are the ones who will
stick to her when all OF her gay COM
panions turn away and leave her.
When she gets sick It Is mother who
will nurse her, When she loses her Job,
II is father who will feed her 1t is
brother and sister who will divide their
last dime with her. There are no ties so
close and so dear as family ties. and the
girl who wiifully breaks these loses the
best thing that life has TO offer for her.
her parents tyrannical because they do
not want her to do everything she desires
to do. to reflect that in ninety.nine times
out Of a hundred her father and mother
are right and she is wrong.
Her parents may nat have had as much
schooling as she has had; they may not
know how to dance the tango. and be up
on the latest fashions. but they have
been educated in the great school OF ex-
perience. and that's the edcuation that
counts.
They know life from having lived It,
They know people from having rubbed
shoulders against them for forty or fifty
years. and so they are better fitted TO
judge OF the young men who hang around
their daughters than any young girl can
possibly be.
And they have seen what comes Of
folly and wrongdoing. They have seen
how easy II is for young girls to be led
into the downward path through just
their love Of amusement and the ex-
uberance OF their own high spirits, and
so, when they try to save their very own
from the fate they have watched over
take many another young girl, It 10 not
tyranny but just a frantic effort to pro-
tect their Mamie or Sadie against her
self Wise is the girl and great her re-
ward who stays at home and listens to
the counsel Of her parents
As for the perents who turn their
daughters out Of their doors for some
foolish escapade or trivial fault. theirs is
the crime OF crimes. They are literally
urging their girls on TO ruin because
they are depriving them OF the protec-
ton OF their homes. and throwing them
out, helpless victims to the wolves OF
society. who prey on Just such defenseless
lambs
The one temple OF refuge 10 which
every girl should be able TO flee Is her
own home, and woe to the hand that
shuts 1t against her Il is the light IN
the window Of home that brings many an
erring child back safe. and the father
and the mother who extinguish that
beacon commit the objectionable sin.