Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-05
THE PROBLEM OF THE eoARCING
SCHOOL
BY DOROTGv DIX
The Worlds Htghest Paid Woman
Writer

fills Is the time of year Uhen 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 ZONES arc going,
and she's heard lurid tales Of the joys
Of stolen fudge parties. and because
her Sbung soul cries OFT for change
and adventure. Mother wants Maude
10 20 because she wants Maude to do
everything that Maude wants to do,
but il breaks her heart to think OF
her little girl going away from her
Father doesn't want her 70 go be-
cause it is so expensive. and because
he cant see the reason for paying
out hundreds of his good, hard dol
Jars TO send Maude off TO a 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. If the family
hasn't plenty of money keep her,
home. ...... ....
OF course IL a girl has given un-
mistakable evidence that she is a
real. genuine OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES gen.
Jus, then it 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
nous young woman who has shown
from the cradle up that she is going
to make the sort of woman who
win espouse q career instead of
man, It Is the business Of her father
and mother to give her the education
that win best enable her to fight her
battle with the world singfe-handed.
But we are not talking of feminine
geniuses, or lady doctors, or lawyers
or teachers now, but OF just the or
binary gtrly girlies who have nothing
heavier on their minds than their hair
and whose only aspirations are to-
have q good time, catch nice hus-
bands, settle down in comfortable
home and have few golden curled,
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
TO school, when there's perfectly
good school at home, depends alto
gether upon fathers pocketbook. II
papa can afford it, without pinching
the balance of the family, she should
70 by all means.
So far as the girl herself is con-
cerned It 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
pin 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
iiy menu. II she sulked everybody
cot busy trying to placate her. II she
had a headache there was as much
ado about IL as If someone was at the
point of death.
At school Maude shakes down into
her proper place in an overcrowded
world. She's just one Of the mass. No
body is 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 is
most wholesome experience for any
girl. No girl ever comes out of
boarding school wearing the same