Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-07
Sending Girl to
Expensive School
By DOROTHY DIX.

circumstances SAID 10 me the otnei
day; \
I'VE are going to send Mamie of
to Miss Blanks school this year. i
is. frightfully expensive and costs
more than we really can afford. Bu
it's very fashionable, and she will b.
thrown with girls who belong to thu
real society set, so | felt that we
should make the sacrifice" w.
) Poor, silly mother! Poor un.
fortunate little Mamie, who is to be
the victim of the greatest uninten-
tional cruelty in the, world--that Of
having tastes, habits and aspirations
cultivated in her that she will never
have the means TO crafty!
Surely OF all sad sights no spectacle
is more pathetic than that Of poor but
foolishly ambitious parents who work
themselves to death and deny them,
selves every comfort in order to curS
their daughters by sending them Of
to fashionable schools. ,s
l There the girl without money is
thrown with the girl who has money
to burn. There the impecunious maid
whose lot it is to walk through life
learns that it is better TO have been
born dead than not to have been
born to twclve-cylinder limousine
There the girl OF low1y rank learns
that societyis the ultimate end ofHlu.
man ambition, and that the chief OBJ
jcct OF life is to wear Paris importa-
tons and outdress ones neighbor.
f Perhaps that is all very well for lit
tie Miss Millionaire, to whom society
is going to beea career anAna business.
1t is doubtless important that she
should spend much time in learning
the art Of dinner giving and learn
how to devise amusenfents that will
keep overfcd, blase gueats from yawn-
ing in her face But no education
could be more denioralizing than this
to a poor girl. Is
1t reaches the poor girl to look with
contempt upon the plainness Of her
own home, and to despise her hard
worked parents. More than that, she
'musty be continually mortified either
by the simplicity Of her clothes or
else by her extravaganza in trying
to keep up with her schoolmatcs and
thus adding fresh burdens and more
hardships on her mother and father.>
She must either withdraw from the
coniaraderie of school life and seem
nigaardly and mean by not playing
her part IN school affairs, OF else she
becomes a parasite and dead beat
BY participating in = pleasures for
which some one else pays.
The inevitable result of such school
life must be. to make her either an
anarchist, hating the rich girl who has
more than she has, or else a syco-
plant who fawns and flatters in, the
hope Of holding on to the skirts oil
TN wealthy,
Nor need any fond mother delude
hcrselfwith the belief that the friend
ships formed with xich girls at such
schools open the doors OF society to
The poor girl. No matter how init
mate the poor girl and the rich girl
have been in school the poor girl finds
that s the relationship ends at the
scn rs y W. ~. aa ,,,...a
!, y he, riSh grl Is gooa natureo,
affaifs extended the poor girl, and
when they meet there may be sus-
Pclous warmth o. aiiection 81 tne
Ilch gifls pari oM ther pains he
~ alIIeieht qrections, anu sehoo'
yliehusnip Is ny s.Iong enough 70
Dripse over leeYhasnn wa. les pe,
tween tne mansion. oil-Ihe ave1ue ana
inc eheap i'at on paek stree.
Dut .oI tne Poo' ~ ihe Tragedy
y conPieF. Sne mas peen 'hade
aissa!isiled win her own mons ana
,liehas ana her own Iot IN US, ana
mas oeen gwen no otner Sne mas
learnsa 70 aespise inc ,wortny poor
young eierk Or o2oSksepet VINO
wouiu marry ny, anu lnas Is NC
lany prince lnonling up o. lne nofl-
lon 70 peaI ner away 70 paiaee
on inc 1udson,
sonc ysarns lor soelety ana !ne
nearest she ever gets 10 y y reading
M the papers .'ne accounts o. paiis
ana parties 70 which sne IS never
ASKED ms mas neen gwen acham-
pfgne taste, ana she mas only, ny
grant wafer win winch 70 queneh
"
20 iniploFe, poor parents MOI to
oe guiiiy OF me supreme folly OF
'sehutag tneif aaughteIs OIL to lash
lohaple scn9ois. oena your girls t9
a ScilQOl where She VIII associate
WIN girls ol ner- own class' where
SIS WIN Iearna tlie tnings mat VIII
sweete .,, ana not emoittef her where
she VIII acquire practical knowledge.