The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-04-15
make ALL GIRLS WORK
WOMAN EDITOR URGES
Would Have Girls Enter In
dustrial Training When
They Reach 10.
COMPULSORY, SERVICE
Young Women Will Be More
Interesting to and Inter-
ested in Husbands.
COMPULSORY, SERVICE
by Marguerite Mooers Marshall in
the New York Evening World.)

by Marguerite Mooers Marshall in
the New York Evening WORLDLY
Universal industrial service for every
girl. \ woman offers this new gos-
eel of preparedness. 1t is the opinion
If Miss Sophie Kerr. one of the editors
the Womans Home Companion, that
every girl rich or poor, when she
caches 19-unless she is engaged to
re married-should be given training
or self support and then should earn
,cr own living for a period of two
ears. In a novel. The Blue Envel-
)pe," just published. Miss Kerr de-
'cribcs the admirable effect OF COM
'ulsory wage earning upon typical
die daughter of America.
Brought up to wear pretty clothes,
% dance. to spend money with happy
,arelcssness, this is what attractive,
Useless little Lcssic Brannan, Miss
terr's heroine. is told in the winter
yhichg she supposed was reserved for
Ter debut:
"Your father wished you, at the age
# 10 if you were not engaged to be
married. to learn some wage earning
occupation and become self supporting
or a period of not less than two years.
your father wanted you to Know some
hing more of life than just--froth. He
wanted you to understand the people
Who must make their own way and
Who shoulder hard responsibilities. He
bought that you should learn to do
ust as they do. He wanted YOU to
at the bread you have earned. to
now how much you are worth to the
world in actual dollars and cents. to
re among people who work. not as an
bserver but as fellow worker"
mo girl in America is so rich that
he can afford not to know how to
arm" Miss Kerr told me with en-
basis when I talked with her in her
'ditorial office.
Should Earn Own Living.
Every girl. rich or poor ought to
now how to do things. She ought to
e able to cook meal. to make or
mend AZ dress, to trim a hat, to write
check. to understand and perform
| he simple processes Of business and
| veryday life. She should be trained
| do some one job well enough to be
,aid for it. And. as final test of her
'apabilities-her readiness to meet re-
'ponsibilities--she should earn her liv-
| ng for at least two years.
Girls need this apprenticeship in
| self support not merely because at
ZONE time in their lives they may have
| earn their way" Miss Kerr summed
Up, but because utter idleness has a
| 'ery bad effect on any young woman
| There is one in my home town who
sits on the piazza all day long while
| her blouses. That girl is the LATEST
| fullest. most lackadaisical person
| know. She is a potato, cabbage. But
her mother refuses to let her do any
| hing because I never worked before
| was married.
Would Not Hinder Marriage.
IF every girl worked for two years
| ,efore her marriage she'd marry just
he same" Miss Kerr said. Nothing
| under the shining sun will keep the
average girl from marrying. Only
| think that after two years in the bust
| ness or professional world she would
be much more interesting to her hus-
| pand He could talk to her in his
| own language. She would be so much
ess of little fool"