The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-16
HOME SPIRIT
NEEDED FOR
BETTER LIVES
Miss Kinney Believes Par.
ents Too Negligent in Train.
ing Sons and Daughters for
Lies Work.
GIVE MANY REASONS


places?
How does the atmosphere of the
modern schools compare with that OF
the schools of the last generation?
People are interested in answer
ing these questions" declared Miss
Florence Kinney, of the Sunday party
who is in charge of the work with the
schools, People want to know If they
can improve their own schools, ano
how. And they are interested in the
moral conditions of these schools"
composite picture of the morals
OF the schools of the country as part
OF the answer can be secured only
through personal acquaintance with
the actual conditions in different
places. But it needs more than
casual acquaintance with the young
steers, it requires that the children
give their confidence the person who
wants TO know
STUDIES Children
For years, as the Sunday party has
been going about the country. Miss
kinney has been seeing the children
gaming their condolences. and learn.
ing what the conditions in the towns
actually are.
mond" she told her interviewer. Tues.
! day morning, merely about the country
as a whole
"Unquestionably the moral stand.
ard in the schools is lower than it was
70 years ago. Some people Law it all
to the war, and there is truth in the
statment, for the same condition exist.
ed after the French Revolution. but
back OF the war cause is a far more
lnslstent one. The children of this
day are exposed to more temptations
than were the children of a generation
ago.
Causes Assigned
The automobile has taken the child
dren out of the sight of their parents.
has made it easier for them 70 90
places than before while the moyie-
have brought pictures of vice and evil
doing before their eyes with vivid
ness and attractiveness heretofore nm.
equaIed
The tendency to dress in STYLES
that appeal to the baser passions in
men, has been having marked effect
everywhere on the school girl. who
mas been apeing in fashion. the older
members of the family
The real danger lies in the fact
mat the girls, are in the formative
period of their life, and the impress
slons. which they gain at that time.
are liable to stay with them.
Are Encouraged
Some of the girls have come to me
after the meetings and have said that
they knew that such things were
wrong, but that their mothers en-
couraged that style of dress in order
10 make an appearance, and have
even asked that | speak to their moth
ers about it.
Such a state of affairs could not
exist were IT just the girls and BOYS
themselves that are at afult.
1 am a great believer in the oId.
fashioned idea that woman's sphere
is in the home, because she Is the
one who can porperly take care of il.
but the attraction must be of the kind
that will make for happy homes
1T is girls duty TO bring all of the
education, and culture and character
that she can to the making of a home
She must be a spiritual and intellect
ual leader for her children. and she
must be Intellectually of interest to
her husband.
Some women crave a public career
But II they are to seek it. they must
never go its way, without knowing the
hlgh price that they must paw for the
privilege 1t is high price, and a
heavy one
Cites Example
Inc best Illustration of the effect
Oh dltferent surroundings on girls.
came to my attention in town where
met two girls who had been brought
I'D In fairly well to do families, where
the home conditions were very diff
ferent
The one home was cultured. if was
almost instinct for the family to he re.
fined, and gentle. and the children
growing up in the home were filled
with the same spirit TIL children of
daughter of that family. are now
growing up in the same sweet whole
some atmosphere that she had AT
home
The other home was Just as veal.
thy, but it lacked refinement and
through the whole life of the daughter
the same lack was noticeable. The
family was morally good, but It lacked
the vital spark that had made the 9th
er daughter the real mother and home
MAKER There was not the same IN
stinct for good
OliSTchCe was Marked.
the difference was slight, but the
results were markedly different.
The modern schools are not doing
their part in educating the girls as
mothers- In some places it has been
almost necessary for the schools TO
adopt a uniform of MILDLY blouse and
SKIRT, and forbid the wearing of silk
stockings, and the use of perfumery.
TO counterfeit the effect of dressing
IN ways that appeal TO the passion of
men.
Part of that indifference is due to
laxity in the homes. / remember a
woman in Oklahoma who had been
gambling in her home at night. but
was being careful that the seven wear
old daughter did not known ANYTHING
about it.
ut had never occurred to her that
the little girl would not be seven very
long, and that they soon learn fast