The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-12

Are You Bringing Up Your
Daughter the Right Way?
lis the average girls father criminal?"
This Is Question for Every Parent to Think

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is the average girls father a criminal?"
That question in strong type flares across one OF the
pages of the March issue Of Harper's Basar
Parentheticaly Harpers Bazaar authoritative as it is
on matters of womans DRESS fashions and kindred
topics interesting is also magazine whose read
think for it gives them things to think about)
The relations between many fathers and daughters Is
somewhat distant The father looks upon the mother the
real custodian of the girls present and the builder OF her
future He shrks responsibility for everything but fur
nishing the money
Arnold Bennett the well known English writer, says
this situation full of danger and bught for the good OF
both father and daughter, to be changed
Over an article by Mr.. Bennett in the March Bazaar the
query printed which asks whether the average girls
father is criminal and early in the article he answers the
question in this way:
My point is that every girl ought to be able to
her living Further, she ought for period actu
ally to much money would suffice to keep her
in decency and independence if she had no other
TO do this she must be brought at compare
lively early age into contact with the realities Of the
world
. father who plays the shield and buckler role ex
cusively is a criminal for various He is
criminal because he may die suddenly and leave his
family without any adequate, protection against the
memorable operation of economics The thing has hap
pened millions of times, bringing about that amentable
phenomenon, the ''lady in distressed circumstances
And the father is criminal because he may fall
into reduced circumstances himself, without dying
And he is criminal because the girl may marry and
her husband die. And he is criminal because nobody
may want to marry the girl the girl may want to
marry nobody And he is criminal because in these
interesting years of transition anything happen
anywhere
In Russia there girls who tenderly screened
from economics and who glad to sweep the
streets for two rubes day; they cannot sweep eff
GENTLY, but they cannot do any other job at ~. In
brief the father is criminal because he is sacrificing
the girls future to her present. allowing her to sacr
fee it.
not in the least anxious to exterminate the joy
of life, to destroy leisure intense believer
in BOTH and my conviction is that there will be appre
Gladly more joy and leisure in the time to
than there is at present.
If you ask me whether every girl without exception
ought to be trained professionally either for domestcty
for exra-domestic reply that positively
the only exceptions would be the ground of i'll health
feeble mndedness.
Parents, have you ever figured out just what would
happen your daughter if to be made dependent
solely on her resources?
Have you equipped her with knowledge, which cannot
be from that would enable her support and
protect herself?
Or have you with all your generosity, left her depend
ent who would in emergency find herself helpless and at
the mercy of the world?
It is good question for fathers and mothers to talk
over after supper Read Mr. Benefits article aloud and be
sure to have the daughter listening and then discuss ser
ousy what he says 1t may you lot Of worried hours
1t may your daughter from very great unhappness