Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-05
the PRosLEM OF THE BOARDING
-~ SCHOOL
BY DOROTHY DIX
The WORLDS Highest Paid Woman
Writer

-HIS is the time Of year when the
burning question in thousands OF
family circles is whether Maude
shall be sent off to boarding school
or not.
Maude is crazy TO 90 because Mamie
Perkins and Sally Iones are going,
and she's heard lurid tales OF the joys
OF stolen fudge parties. and because
her young soul cries out for change
and adventure. Mother wants Maude
TO 60 because she wants Maude to do
everything that Maude wants to do,
but 1t breaks her heart to think OF
her little girl going away from her.
Father doesn't want her to 60 be-
cause Il is so expensive, and because
he can't see the reason for paying
out hundreds Of his good, hard dol
.ars to send Maude off to school
that isn't a whit better school than
the high school on the next block.
So the argument goes round and
round the family circle. And what
are they TO do?
So far as my opinion goes, the
one determining factor in the case Is
money. II the family has plenty OF
money by all means send Maude off
to boarding school. II the family
hasn't plenty Of money keep her
home. a#., f@ ~ ....."
or course IL a girl has given un.
mistakable evidence that she is
real genuine Observation-Disclosures gen.
ius, then II Is the bounden duty Of
her parents to make every possible
sacrifice to give her the opportunity
to develop her talent. Also, IL the
girl is a serious, sober minded, siren.
uous young woman who has shown
from the cradle up that she is going
to make the sort Of a woman who
viii espouse q career instead of a
man, IL IL the business Of her father
and mother to give her the education
that viii best enable her TO fight her
battle with the world single-handed.
But we are not talking Of feminine
geniuses, or lady doctors, or lawyers
or teachers now, but Of just the or
binary girly girlies who have nothing
heavier on their minds than their hair
and whose only aspirations are to
have good time, catch nice hus-
bands. settle down in comfortable
home and hayea few golden curied.
blue-eyed babies playing about their
feet.
They are just sweet normal girls
the kind that keeps the world going
and whether such should be Sent off
70 school, when there's perfectly
good school at home, depends alto
gether upon fathers tpocketbo0k. II
papa can afford 1t, without pinching
the balance Of the family. she should
20 by all means.
So far as the girl herself is con-
scerned 1t Is highly educational ex-
perience independent Of what she
learns out Of books. To begin with,
Maude finds out for the first time in
her young Life that she is not the king
Npin in the universe and that the sun
and moon do not wait upon her whims.
From the time she was born Maude
has been the most important thing
In her home. What she liked and
didn't like TO eat determined the fam
ily menu. II she sulked everybody
got busy trying to placate her. II she
had 3 headache there was as much
ado about II as IL someone was at the
point Of death.
AL school Maude shakes down into
her proper place in an oyercrowded
world. she's Just one Of the mass. No
body ID interested in whether she
takes one spoon Of sugar or two in
her coffee, or wants to hear about
her little aches and pains, or notices
whether she's glad or sad. which 10
q most wholesome experience for any
girl. No girl ever comes out OF q
boarding school wearing the same