The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-03-15

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CHASE" BOYS
PRINCIPAL OF BOSTON HIGH
SCHOOL DEPLORES CHANGE
SAYS GIRLS CALL YOUTHS BY
PHONE AND ASK FOR DATES.

Boston. March 14.-Charles S. Jack
son. for "A years principal of the Lynn
English High School, who few days
ago severely lectured the girls among
the 100 pupils under his control. tell
ing them they must stop chasing the
BOYS and calling them on the tele-
phone to make date" has amplifiied
those views in an interview explain
ing Ills caustic arraignment of the
young women.
Il have noticed the attitude of the
girl of today toward the youth strange
~ differs from that of the girl of even
10 years ago, he said. And bear in
mind, | have been here a generation.
Girls today chase the boys. The
retiring, modest maiden seems to be
a thing Of the past, like the hoop
skirt Just imagine calling a young
man on the phone and asking him to
go to the theater. Think of it! | will
not have any young girls doing that,
and have told them so. Mothers of
my boys have complained to me about
the number of calls their sons receive
while trying to study in the evening.
They Go After Young Men
Young women today don't wait for
the young man. They go after him.
Pretty soon Dan Cupid will be num-
bered among the unemployed. | mean
to have my girls more particular. A
girl should refuse to walk on the street
with a fellow who is smoking. She
should consider it a grave INSULT
Slang should be viewed likewise.
THE point is that the high school
girl has a power over the high school
youth that is Tremendously she could
only realize what her attitude means
to his future. 1t is the boys vital
stage of life. He's just waking up
beginning to upderstand-g gathering
the opening chapters of his philoso-
ply of life. He is just beginning to
notice girls.
"If a girl permits a boy to smoke
in her presence, to use coarse Ian
guage he is likely-and justly so
to regard this as liberty that girls as
a whole will permit and enjoy. If the
girl is careful, rather eXacting, re-
fuses to tolerate slang, smoking and
liberties akin to them, the boy will
assume different standard. Woman
will stand in his mind as something
entirely different, a being that demands
the noblest and best A boy wants
to have the girls think we'll of him. He
enjoys being a favorite.
MoIding is Important.
This molding is important The
high school girl paves the way for the
woman | believe in co-education-in
boys and girls mixing, but on a prop
er basis. am not prude. be
lieve the modern dances are more
proper than the old-fashioned waltz
The new dances are pretty. The pu-
pills have their dances and | attend
1t is noticeable that if the new dances
are executed properly the partner is
not held so tightly or so closely as
of old
This chasing of boys, wearing of
low-neck dresses, cigarette smoking
and this is one of our greatest evils,
for it is running our young men by
stunting their growth and dulling their
brains-and the attitude of the young
people toward each other, should
cause teachers and parents to think
seriously and to act For how can II
expect to accomplish wonders with
the pupils if their own parents set a
bad example,"