Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-02-17
Training for Girls
Crying Need Of Hour

The great day we had Saturday,
February 5, and the good speeches
we heard were very much enjoyed. l
don't feel that / could add one thing
to single speech, but will say that
there is one subject that / would have
liked to have some one speak on, so
as to arouse the people of Bogalusa.
This is the training of girls from IL
years and up-"Healthy Mothers and
Healthy Children. that's one thing
we lack in BogaIusa that long to see
here. / wish that l could have had
this training when l was a girl. / see
where it would have been of more
benefit to me than all the other edu
cation l received-besides the benefit
it would have been to my children
and even to other people. / was ig-
norant of myself when married, and
all know that ignorance does not save
anyone from suffering or the penalty
of law, or hell. God gave us head
full of brain and all we need is the
proper training to give us the prop
er knowledge
What is it we need any more than
healthy mothers and healthy chill
dren? "-for the hand that rocks the
cradle is the hand that saves our ma
ton. Who is training the girls of
today?-one another, and they know
nothing and are blind to the fact.
So if the blind lead the blind, the
both fall in the ditch.
When Governor Parker spoke of
training the boys, how and what to
feed hogs on, how to put on the fat,
the shape and how to make the bone,
l longed to be a millionaire and
just get right up and say: When l
get my female institution stationed
in Bogalusa where could have girls
trained in the things they should
know to preserve their health, body
and soul, and the same of little in
fants. We also would teach that
here, but not of hogs-BABIES!
If this training was given in all
public or high school, it would save
so many things, so much sickness, so
much pain, so much uneasiness, so
many lives, so many deformed or
weak-minded children, and ever so
many souls from hell. could name
many more things it would save, and
just as many more that it would
give.
Now 80 per cent out the girls get
married some day. Marrying is one
thing that is going to go on as long
as the world stands, and this training
is needed, and why it's not taught in
the public schools Of this so-called
wise American nation is a mystery to
me-the one training that is needed
in a woman's daily life more than
any other. Everything else is given
but this. We teach girls how to raise.
pigs, but we never think Of the chill
dren; we thing that when child
reaches the school age it is time to
begin training, but this is not true.
A young man, the father Of IL
months-old baby, asked his family
physician when to begin training his
baby. The doctors answer was nine
months before it's birth. You bet I'd
shake that doctors hand if l was near
him. And now want to add: The
mother should be trained four years
before. l don't want to impress on
anybody's mind that want the girls
trained to be doctors No, but they
should have this training so as to
know all about themselves and how
to take care of themselves and their
future children, and as the speaker
said about the pigs, teaching boys
how to put on the fat and make the
bone, girls should know how to do
that with babies, and I'd add how to
make the pretty face and the sweet
disposition. The disposition of the
mother before the child's birth i'm
presses on and in the child impress
sions that follow it into man or wom-
anhood and even farther veto the
grave. I long to see this training
given in Bogalusa High School, and
If 1 had ten thousands of dollars, I'd
rather see all of it go to that one
thing than any other ten, for it would
mean so much to the children, so
much to the mothers, so much to the
fathers, so much to our nation, and
ever so much to God.
A GIRLS FRIEND.