Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-05


sized hat she wore when she went in
Like wise boarding school teaches a
girl self reliance and independence.
There's no mother TO pick up after
her when she stIews her clothing
about the floor, or TO darn her stock
ings, or think for her. She must 90
these things for herself or rake the
consequences, and boarding Sclccl Is
most useful in this, that ii gives
Maude the discipline that her mother
was too weak and tender D give ner.
And il corrects MauCs manners
with a ruthless disregard Vi her feel
ings. Mother may have, told Maud a
million times about spo.ting the table
cloth, and Holding her fork DIS If 1t
were a pickaXe, or eating soup audi
bly,. and Maude paid no attention 70
il, but one giggle of derision from the
other girls at her table cures Maude
effectually OF her little awkward
nesseS.
The chief argument, however, in
favo, OF sending Maude off 20 board
ing school is that it bridges over
peacefully and amiably the hohhiede'
hoy stage of a girls life when she
and her family are at dagger's points
over the question Of beauX and par
ties and the amount Of liberty and
privileges that she shall e.Ijcy. Maude
thinks she's grown up. Mauds's par
ents think she is still a litcle girl and
in consequence of these divergent
opinions they are eternally on each
others nerves.
Let Maude have year or two away
from home and by the time she gets
back her parents have reconciled
themselves to the fact hat their child
has followed the universal human
custom of growing up, and they are
ready to meet her on that plane and
be friends and companions With her.
But in sending Maude off 10 q
boarding school would urge parents
above all else to pick out one that
is in accordance with their means
and where their daughter will be
thrown with girls who are in her own
social status. Nothing else is so de-
moralizing as for young girl, at
the most impressionable time of her
life, to be associated with girls who
are far richer than she is and who
move in circles to which she nay
not hope to penetrate. .-... s
They fill her mind with false ideals.
They give her false standards Of lfv-
ing and teach her extravagant habits
and tastes that will be the ruin of
her father and the man she marries,
and make her miserable with unsatis-
fled desires to the end IF her life.
So much for the advantages of
the boarding school If the family is
well.to.do. II the family is ,oor keep
the girl at home. There is nothing
else on earth so pathetic as the USE
less and futile sacrifices, parents
make to give their children what
they fondly think are educational ad-
yantages and which the children are
either too lazy or too stupid 70 take.
Mother wears her old clothes and
slaves over the cookstove to send
Maude off to finishing school whose
only effect is to finish UP what lit.
tie sense Maude had to start with,
and leave her dissatisfied with her
home and ashamed of her shaDDy
mother. Father works overtime, aDc
shortens his days, shaving for the
to send John off to college,
and all that John comes nome with
is a college yell and 5lighting con-
tempt for the grocery trade.
In considering whether they sEall
send their children off TO school or
not let the parents ponder well the
fact that all education is not to be
derived from books. About the hest
brand Of it comes put up in packages
Of daily experience and children can