The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-10
Signs of the Times

Mayiime is close by. with its
promise of summer. The sweet girl
graduates are getting ready, as well
as the sweet boy graduate. to acquit
themselves in study and to stand
before the admiring audiences TO
deliver valediccory and salutatory
addresses. In turn they will be
given their sheepskins and either go
forth to take post graduate courses
In other schools and colleges or TO
take upon themselves the sterner
duties Of life; the girl TO prepare
herself for the usual place in the
ranks of young womanhood the
social maid, scheltered and loved
within the home, the next chapter
IN life perhaps, TO be played to the
tune Of Lohcngrin's "BEidal
Chorus;" another maid, perhaps to
take upon herself the serious under
tahngs Of a life's vocation in the
broad field OF endcavor, open nova
days TO women of tho land. She
steps over the threshold OF school
and college life with the youth who
has been her classmatc and keeps
step with him in this great matter
OF earning ones livlihood. II is a
wonderful business. There Ia no
broader and more VisioninG expe-
Renee for either man or maid than
the practical gamut of business
where one meets the world of peo-
pie and learns through all the
senses one is endowed with Just how
the world keeps time, mind, body,
leart and soul co-ordinating in the
hdIyidual, the one person with that 4
other and so on, passing through /
the labyrinth OF lifc's pathway, |
whether 1t be roseate one or drab- |
colored.
One may say what they please
ABOUT the sheltered girl. 1t Is GER
tolnly fortunate for her that she can
nave the walls OF luxury about her,
10 have others nearso see that no iii
winds cross her pathway that may
nance To blow her plans contrawise.
she is to be envied. this wonderful |
prlll.ant, beautiful and accomplished
gri who can carry on with a life OF
leisure, who will marry and then
iind again all that she has had in
me way Of a luxurious life. but II
We Iacts play against her, the story
VIII have a different ending. Some
row we have a genuine liking for
mat girl who puts to good advantage /
'9d's Eifts and other attainments,
VINO really wants TO keep her mind /
active and her hands busy and who
wants TO become part OF the great
moving world that is doing things.
she developes individuality by help
IhB herself and others and inn
hediately forges TO the front. II she
ambitious and sincere and soon
becomes factor. looked up to and
admired by all who know her. Her
selt-assurance and independence are
me mainsprings that bear her on
and on to the goal which she has
sought.
There was time and that time
was not so many years ago when
~ was considered degrading for a
"oHlan to earn her livelihood, or 10
Ie engaged In any line OF work. II
startling for one to believe that
poople could have been so narrow
.'nded, 1t is even more startling
realize that some of these peO-
pe sun exist and who still are prone
gage the strata Of womanhood ac-
oHraIng TO her position in life. Peo-
PIE who think but little OF that wo-
man who is fitted into groove
,ohewhere In business where she is
.akihB good. There Is a genuine
satntaction in the realization that
ououess II these people should be-
Vnlo oereft OF, perhaps their world
y goods, they would be poor indeed,
,or their position on this subject al
auy declares them poor in gray
natter for depreciating one of Gods
wst rohest blessings; the privilege of
,"o'hlng and the power OF work. so
.' mink OF the girls and boys who
10 ,holo 10 graduate soon and wo give
sem our good wishes and prayers.
,uSuiiilclent be II that the greatest
,hh.hg We can wish for them is that
chv e ,Sood Fairy who directed their
nnanuhood play, may continue TO be
asi,r AT them to guide them in that
uencate period OF adolescence that
sv neither womanhood nor manhood,
wan " they have left school, and