Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Phladephans Subjects They
Kno,U Best
KnO,U Best

being dairying, bee keeping and general
farming, weaving and needlework.
AS consumer. thrift is one Of the main
things TO teach, and this is done by teach
ing buying of the right kind. Modern eco.
nomics recognizes the fact that women form
the purchasing public. and therefore the
burden of household buying. even including
most Of the things for mems own use, falls
on the women. The right policy and the one
which is now generally followed is to begin
early the teaching of this most important
matter.
Women Citizenship
with the coming Of the vote to women
some new elements had to enter into the
program. The self governing unit is an cx =
cellent training for the proper use of the
ballot and for constantly growing famil =
!arltF with the political system of the
United States, without which no woman can
nope to exercise the franchise to the best
advantage.
''Group action. therefore, teaches the
rudimrnts of parliamentary law and the
necessity for making democratic decisions.
mis- IS one of the most important contrl-
buttons which can be made toward the right
training of girls for the duties Of citizen
snip, Tor If women are to exercise any con-
siderable part in modern politics they must
be taught from early youth to have gregari-
GUS interests and occupations.
''T'hi" is an advantage which young boys
have had from time immemorial, but which
little girls have not had. Little boys play
together and not only with each other, but
with older boys and with young men,
whereas girls have had in the past few II
any such common interests; their games
have been largely solitary or in very small
groups. and their general activities have
been largely of Il personal character. The
broadening Of this has been the first big step
toward better and higher citizenship for
women.
Improving on the Past
''Many Of the organizations for women in
the years past have not been successful
because they failed to recognize that women
are. first of ALL human beings. Most of the
institutions for women of few generations
ago even those of supposedly purely edu-
catlonal character, existed to shelter her from
the world or to segregate her. This has
been all changed in the modern girls or.
CARNATIONS, and designedly So
Nov, physical exercise, athletics, camp.
ing. story telling and the like are cncour-
aged, not merely for the mental and physi.
cal development which they give, but as part
of definite program which will make the
girls better equipped for life through n
realization OF that human element in their
characters and personalities which the older
education neglected.
1T was England which first realized the
possibilities of this method Of education in
inc modern sense and the first patrol of the
Scouts III this country was organized by
Mrs. Juliet Lowe in Savannah only ten
years ago. How rapidly the movement has
grown IL shown by the fact that there nre
now in Philadelphia alone more than 05OO
The sense of fair play is one of the finest
things that it teaches, and it is deyeloped
from first to last in their training"