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sized hat she wore when she went in.
Likewise boarding school teaches a
girl self reliance and independence.
There's no mother to pick up after
her when she strews her clothing
about the floor, or to darn her stock
ings. or think for her. She must 60
these things for herself or rake the
consequences, and boarding Schccl Is
most useful in this, that it gives
Maude the discipline that her mother
was too weak and tender % give her.
And 1t corrects MauG's manners
with a ruthless disregard Ot her feel
ings. Mother may have told Maud a
million times about spotting the table
cloth, and holding her tork as II 1t
were a piekaxe, or eating isoup audi
bly,, and Maude paid no attention To
it, but one giggle of derisioa from the
other girls at her table cures Maude
effectuaIly of her little awkward
nesses.
The chief argument, however, in
favor OF sending Maude off 20 a board
ing school is that it bridges over
peacefully and amiably the hobhlede-
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. Maude's par.
ents think she is still little girl and
in consequence of these divergent
opinions they are eternally on each
others nerves.
Let Maude have a 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 TO 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 50 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. + I
They Till her mind with false IDEALS.
They give her false standards CT lv.
ing and teach her extrayagant habits
and tastes that will be the ruin Of
her father and the man she rarries,
and make her miserable with unsatis.
fled desires to the end IT her life.
So much for the advantages Of
the boarding school II The family ID
welIto-do. II the family Is DOOR 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 Ifondly think are educational adj
and which the childrs7 are
either too lazy or too stupid 70 take.
Mother wears her old clothes and
slaves over the cookstove to send
Maude off to a finishing school whose
only effect is to finish up what lit
tie sense Maude had to start NTH,
and leave her dissatisfied with her
home and ashamed Of her shaDDy
mother. Father works overtime, anu
shortens his days, Shaving for the
money to send John off to college,
and all that John comes home with
is a college yell and 5lighting con-
tempt for the grocery trade.
In considering whether they sEall
send their children off 20 school ar
not let the parents ponder wei the
fact that all education is not to DC
derived from books. About the hest
brand Of It comes put up In packages
Of daily experience and children can