The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-05-20

This is the time OF the year
when the schools all over the
country turn out their product
of girls and boys seeking to enter
the world of men and women,
some marry and some go into
business or the professions. The
following editorial is a good one
for these girls to read for it is
true:
Teach your girl that it pays to be
to make capital of her sex to get
consideration or favors. Teach her
that "coyness" based upon deceit or
vanity is unworthy and common,
and that any "coyness," outside OF
the kind of which she is absolutely
unconscious, is as vulgar as rundown
heels and holes in her stockings.
There was time when really nice
girls were taught to act part in the
great game of sharing husband
She must fuse her eyes," she must
affect great fear of mice and men;
she must "swoon away" at opportune
times; and must weep easily and
copiously when there was a chance of
arousing sympathy and pity. And
pity being kin to love" was con-
sidered the best avenue to reach a
mans affections.
But it isn't done any more in good
families. Girls in the better homes
are taught to be honest and self
reliant and ION the square" Train
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pendent, the efficient girl of today is
not out on the hunt for a husband.
And she is learning to avoid damag-
ed goods to an extent that promises
great benefits for coming generations.
In the business world, the honest
girl scorns to use her sex as means
for getting by with less efficient
work than would be accepted from a
man holding her job. She earns her
salary by satisfactory service, and is
receiving equal pay with men en-
ployes doing the same grade of work.
In the social world, the honest girl
is neither snob nor trickster. She
selects her friends because of the
good qualities they possess. She
scorns the dollar-worshippers and the
toadies, and she builds her social
standing by the fine character she
displays, by the kindly service she
does, by the big sympathies and
happy spirit she brings among the
people who make up her social world.
So, teach your girls to be sincere.
Teach her to be on the square. Teach
her to know the genuine from the
imitation, the gold from the dross.
We did get some notions of
saving into our heads during the
war because we just had to,
everybody was doing it. AS a
result many hold Liberty bonds
who would otherwise have spent
the money from day to day, and
so little fund has been accumu-
lated. But now is the time when
the lessons of the war must be
continued or all or most of its
good will be lost to the country
and it is the country of whole
some thrift that survives in
crises. To come nearer home, it
is the family of wise thrift that
survives. Save a little every
week and when the evil day be-
falls, there is a buffer between
you and it, or when the oppor-
tunity comes, you can grasp it.
Thrift, not stinginess, is the good
friend of mankind and the poor
and rich share equally in the
benefits it can bestow.
1t looks as if we were going to
get back to old fashioned ideas
Of paying as you go if President
policy, which he out
lined to the executive depart
ments of the government by |
warning them that they must |
not spend beyond their allow
ance, goes into effect.
1t may be that sometime in the
future, even before we reach our
future home beyond, that the
price of shoes will come down
for the government is now buy
ing army shoes for $3.43 and a
year ago the price was $6.73. Are
the days of the SIS and $40 shoe
numbered.
STATE NEWS.
The Summit house on Mt. Mansfield
is to open June l.
DIR. + o Porter of Cornwall died
suddenly May 9th.
Official records prove that April,
1921, was the warmest April since
1886.
The state X. of c. convention will
be held in Rutland May % and "a.
Miss Mildred Evarts of Middlebury
has become the leader of boys and
girls club work in Addison county.
Charles T Fairfield, formerly editor
Of the Rutland Evening News, has
been anDointpd examiner Of national