Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-24

ject to the chaperon being always
on duty, not because they want 70
do anything, or say anything ina
is in the slightest degree obJectlon,
tie silly jokes at which they laugh,
the Juvenile badinage in when
they Indulge, the teasing they f1no
SO amusing. falls stillborn and deao
before the cynical eyes of age. TheS
Shall, then, the young girl %
given her head, and go her ow9
sweet will as she lists? Heaven fon1
bid! Girls are foolish creatures an9
they need all the protection any
guidance their mothers can glv7
fective if it is tempered with COM
mon sense and discretion. i
A mother, for instance, certainly
fails in her duty if she does mol
know where her daughter is every
minute of the time, and is not per
man with whom she associates. BY
place it surely isn't necessary fol
mother to do the shadow act afteI
her, Nor is it obligatory on her II
thrust her society perpetually on
ed and found out to be moral AMI
upright and with a good record.
BE sure you are right then 81
ahead" Davy Crockett gave as
motto, 'Be sure they are all right
then let them alone" would be
Personally I have always fell
that most of a mothers chaperoninI
should. be done long years before \
is needed
g adj shr eta shrd eta shrd vi
1t should begin in the cradle al3
~ 1U
er's knee when baby lips lisp prayer
to God to make them good littl'
girls. If a mother does her par
then, If she instills into the litt4
girls heart a love for purity, AM
the white things of life, If the moth
or ingrains in the very fiber of he'
being a rock-bottomed virtue that nj
teaches the little girl strength an
courage and to hold her honor abov
her life, then she won't need an
watching when she's grown.
And if mother has Intelligent
enough to realize that ignorand
never was and never will be innd
cence, and she erects danger sigma
which the unwarned stumble, theN
indeed, mother may cut out TIL
dragon act. Her work has been doTN
in time, instead of too late.
For when all is said girls red
chaperon must be in her own hea
and brains. No woman was ever SUI
cessfully watched. If she had it
later she did it. Nor can anyolE
really protect another. They muN
do that for themselves. Thee
comes an hour when the watchdc*
slumbers; place where the mo-
anxious mother can not follow HI
daughter and woe be then that 81 \
who has not been taught to tai
care of herself and who does nN
know how to guard herself again
danger.
In considering the chaperon que
ton, we may also give due recognX
ton to American institution al
American ideal. both feminine al
masculine.
Our girls are brought up differen
harem born, nor convent bred, nj
provincially educated. They are
the thick of life from infancy. Viii
their hair is still in pigtails they
as worldly-wise as foreign girls a
when they marry. Independence al
self-reliance are their heritage al
they actually do not need as mud
chaperontng because they are so jol
we'll fit to look out for themselva
Also, there are not many AmeI
can men, thank God, from whom
nice, sweet, pure American girl nee
protection.
But about chaperoning. Well, a
| always safe rule to do in Ron
as the Romans do. If you live in
community where a girl is suspicio
ed of being not just "nice" il s.
isn't watched, trot around after vol
daughter like Mary's little lamb
was it the sheep dog?
otherwise, quite other wise. 3
whatever you do for your gro
daughter, don't forget to teach vol
baby daughter how every girl can
her own chaperon.