The New York herald., 1921-04-03

fur, but I take care of it and I can put it
over.
This is one of the dangers besetting a
girl of this kind; il encourages her to other
forms of deception that are character de-
stroying. And suppose the girl / spoke Of
first had not been so precipftate; suppose
she had 'joled along the stranger who
wanted to give her the highest kind of a.
timer"
In the national campaign undertaken and
carried on ever since the war against con-
tinual dancing, II that We're the solitary
form Of amusement open to young girl
against unseemly and inappropriate dress
and against dangerous freedom Of ways in
connection with the opposite sex about
10000 girls of the adoescent age have
come under the influence of the field work
and their 500 local assistants. Miss
Gogin herself is much OF the time travelling
about the country investigating the work as
1t progresses and asking suggestions from
the girls themselves for improving and en-
larging it,
Girls to-day; women tomorrow: and TO
help them grow to be fine women is our big
task. 1t is so big, so full of difficult prob
lens that we need all the help possible.
We ought to get IL from the very society
set of girls THE New YORK HERALD is trying
TO convert to queter manners and saner
dress. | think if these girls knew how far
US and incidentally help themselves.
In the first place it is not easy 10 get
hold of the girls. They are suspicious OF
anything that has the word Christian as its
middle name. They dopt want to come here
at first or go to any of the other centres.
but we trust to the influence of those girls
that have come.
Finding There Is Pleasure
In Things That Are Good
Girls bring girls. That is the maxim in
which we implicitly rely, and by it we re-
cruit our girl reserves. We have no absurd
restrictions; we do not object to dancing but
encourage it in a wise way; we know that
adolescent girls grow up to be better women
when they have the natural association of
boys and we Offset the lack of home life by
urging the girls to have their young male
friends call on them in the public reception
rooms provided for that very purpose.
After a time, sometimes longer, some
times shorter, our reserves decide that we
are not narrow bigots in anything they
learn that there is pleasure or at least pleas
ant things even In religion they see for
themselves that there other forms Of
recreation as jolly dancing and finally they
begin personally to take interest and even
to suggest the things they would like to do.
Then we feel they are safe.
NOW the girls when they first come to us
in this naughty, suspicious mood, almost re-
sentful toward the friends that brought
them along, very often look perfectly freak
.sh. Their faces are covered with rouge and
powder, their dress is almost ridiculous--is
wholly so when you remember that they
work hard for the money that pays for these
cheap limitations of current fashions They
cont accept what we say and we don't urge
Il. We wait until they bring us suggestions
of their own.
I'm Chicago recently strong effort was
imitation. These girls are profoundly af-
fected by personality and when they. see
teacher whom they like we'll dressed. even
fashionably dressed, but not in the extreme
folly of certain fashions they unconsciously
follow her. Occasionally of course there
viii be one who keeps right along with her
paint and silly dress and nobody Will take
her TO task for II. We know that she Is