The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-05-28
GIRLS SHOULD
PAY OWN WAY
SAYS RBF0RMER
Tells Reasons Why Many Girls
Make Failure in Life
Fathers Accused

. Chicago, May 2S.-While speaking
to an audience Of 800 prominent. bust.
ness men at local club here yester-
day, Mrs. Helen B. lPaulsen, lecturer
and psychologist, created a decided
sensation when, in discussing the
causes for girls going. wrong, she en-
phatically stated that, II parents, and
especially fathers, would teach their
daughters, from the moment they be-
gin going out with young men. always
to pay their own way, wherever they
90, very few girls would 60 wrong.
That Good Night Kiss
Girls do not want to do wrong
things but many Of them begin what
often results in an unfortunate eli
max, by allowing their boy friends to
kiss them goodnight" said, Mrs. Paul
sen. "They do it because they feel
that they owe something for the
money the boys have spent on, them.
II parents were to teach their daugh-
ters 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 boys for all the money they
spend on u.s. and the boys say to our
unframed girls,--'what do you sup
pose we are spending all this money
on you for anyway Since the girl
has entered the business world, there
is no reason why we should not train
her to pay her own way when in,
high school and college. 1t will make
her q better business woman and GER
tainly better wife and home keeper"
Accuses Fathers
Mrs. Paulsen accused the fathers of
young girls Of being the chief con-
tributors to their daughters wildness.
She stated that fathers have . more
important home duty in this day thal
ever before in their lives.
"The wOmantiOf yesterday was pro-
tected by her father, then married
and then protected by her husband or.
in case she did not marry, her broth
ers protected her." Mrs. Paulsen said.
"The girl of today goes into q differ
ent environment and surroundings.
Fathers know the conditions that
surround the girls in the store, the
office and the factory. They know
the dangers of the automobiles as the
mothers do not. It is not . square
deal to the girls for the fathers not
to teach them to know life 90 well
that they can be sweet and pure and
still earn their own way. One often
hears men criticising the way girls
act and dress in the busines world.
1t would be we'll for some to ask them
this pertinent questiOn,-"Are your
daughters going to dress and act any
differently when they 60 to work for
some one?' Then answer that ques-
tion by saying,-Tf they do, it is 60.
ing to be because you teach them,
they cannot get this intimate knowl-
edge from books nor schools
Complain Bitterly
''The twentieth, century boy is com.
planning very bitterly of the girls you
and l are raising, and the girls are
not to blame as much as we are.
The boys say,-'There is nobody
home They. say that they 60 to the
home of the girl, knock at the door,
she comes to the door and without
even asking him in, she says,-'Well,
where can we go tonight?' .
''She has to go to movie, a thea
ter. have box of candy and some
thing to eat after it is all over The
young men say their perfectly good
wage is practically gone by the time
the evening is over. Do you know
that the worth while Young men,
those who are trying to establish
themselves, are doing? They are just
not going with the girls, they say they
cannot afford it, and socially we are
all losing out, as well as morally and
from the standpoint OF home ideals"