The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-28
FATHERS OUGHT
TO TEACH GIRLS
TOPAYOWN WAY
Daughters Wild Be.
cause of Parental
Neglect.

Chicago, May 2S.-While speak
ing to an audience Of 800 prominent
business men at a local club here
recently, Mrs. Helen B. Paulsen. lee
turer and Psychologist created de-
cided sensation when, in discussing
the cause for girls going wrong, she
mphatically stated that. II parents.
and especially fathers, would teach
their daughters, from the moment
they begin going out with young
men, always to pay their own way,
wherever they go. very few girls
would 30 wrong.
Girls do not want to do wrong
things but many Of them begin what
often results in an unfortunate cli-
max, by allowing their boy friends
to kiss them goodnight" said Mrs.
Paulsen. '@They do it because they
feel they owe something for the
money the boys have spent on them.
II parents were to teach their
daughters to pay their own way.
the girls would not feel that they
must give their perfectly beautiful
selves to every man who pays them
attention Girls everywhere. when
urged to keep themselves pure and
sweet, say in perfect innocence
well, what can We do for the boyf
for all the money they spend on US,
and the boys say to our untrainet
girls, what do you suppose We arr
spending all this money on you fol
/, anyway! Since the girl has enteret
the business world, there is no rea
SON why we should not train he
to pay her own way when in higl
school and college. 1t viii max
her a better business woman an
certainly better wife and hom'
keeper"
Mrs Paulsen accused the father,
of young girls Of being the chic
contributors to their daughters
wildness. She stated that father,
have more important home dut!
in this day than ever before In theil
lives
The woman Of yesterday wa
protected BY her father. then mar
ried and was protected by her hus
band or, in case she did not marry
her brothers protected her," Mrs
Paulsen said. The girl Of toda.
goes into a different environmen
and surroundings.
Asks Square Deal
asES,%kc-r lyuou <ho condition
that surround the girls in the store
; the Office and the factory. The,
know the dangers Of the automobil
as the mothers do not It is not
square deal to the girls for tn
fathers not to teach them to know
life so well that they can be swee
and pure and still earn their owl
|: way. One often hears men CRITICS
ing the way girls act and dress il
the business world. 1t would b
well for some to ask them this peril
nent question, Are your daughter
going to dress and act any differ
emily when they 60 out to work 70
some one? Then answer tina
question by saying, II they do, it
going to be because you teach then
they cannot get this intimat
knowledge from books nor schools
The 10th century boy is CON
planning very bitterly of the girl
you and I are raising, and the girl
are not to blame as much as we ar
The boys say: There is nobod
home They say that they 60 to tn
home of the girl, knock at the doc
she comes to the door and withot
even asking him In, she says, Wei
where can we go tonightT
She has to 60 to a movie,
theatre, have a box of candy an
something to eat after it is all owe
The young men Say their perfect
good wage is practically gone /
the time the evening is over. L
you know that the worth viii
young men, those who are trying
establish themselves, are doint
They are just not going with Il
girls, they say they cannot afford
and socially we are all losing out, /,
well as morally and from the stan
point of home ideals"