Evening star., 1923-11-18
Girls ar d Their Affairs.
Conducted by Helen III. Fetter.
THINK 1t Is very cruel to the
young girl of today for peo-
pie generally to discuss her


and her affairs" said DR.. Au-
relia Henry Reinhardt, when she was in
Washington last week. DR.. Reinhardt
Is president of Mills College. Califor-
mia, and Is also president Of the Amer
lean Association of University Wom-
en- She has been connected with the
University of Idaho, with the state
normal school of that state and with
the University Of Ca ifornia in the ca
capacity of teacher and lecturer. Since
1915 she has been president of Mills
College for Girls and has had primar-
lily to study the young American girl
and her problems. In continuing the
expression OF her views concerning
the discussion of the girl of "fapper"
age. DR.. Reinhardt said:
THE general public and some au-
thors have taken the young girl as
though she were finished product
and dissected her accordingly. 1t is
the very unfairnesS of this attitude
that / consider cruelty itself. The
young girl is in stage of transition
from the ideas and manners of child.
hood to the mature thoughts and ac-
tfoas of grown people. Therefore she
should not be judged, but quiet Y in
fuenced by her own family and in
Btrpctors in school to adopt the dig
nifty and charm that are rightfully
hers"
DR. REINHARDT is very proud of
II the girls of Mills College and
told enthusiastically Of some of the
unusual things that they have done.
I'VE have student government at
Mills College" she said. 1.-The girls
have entire power over the organic
Ing of classes, residence halls. pro-
grams for public occasions and cam
pus life. They have a very active So
cfal service organization and during
the big fire in the Japanese quarter of
San Francisco, they raised money
toward the clothing of the 1900 Jap
anese students stranded without
gave a brand-new garment as well as
other things.
"One of the novel things that the
girls of Mills College are doing Is to
educate a Greek girl. They paid her
expenses from Pyritz. Greece. and are
paying all of her expenses while TAX
Ing the course at the college. They
ere planning to take one girl from
different foreign country every four
years and educate her at Mills. Of
course there are also the twelve for
eign scholarship students from Japan.
China, Hawaii, France and Russia,
too"
@IRLS In the east are inclined to
" think that the girls of the far
west. especially Of California. are in
terested primarily in ranches and mo-
tion picture life. often they do not
realize that the educational progress
and actual advancement for girls and
women in business and political lines
Is as great, and in some instances
much greater. than In the more con-
6ervative east.
In Washington the high school girls
do a good deal of social service work
that is very practical and highly COM
mendable. The time Is close now
when the more picturesque part of
this kind of work will be engaged In.
Thanksgiving dinners are carried to
many poor families in the District by
Washington girls and Christmas
bundles of clothing. new and neatly
mended clean worn things are includ-
ed as well as toys and books for poor
children and those in the local hospi-
tails along with Christmas baskets of
cheer.
In every part of the United States
from lecturers. teachers. Y. w. c. A.
officials and club women. the young
girl of America is proudly being de-
Tended and is being accorded her
rightful place of in"onSpicuous serv-
ice where she touches nothing she
does not adorn," to make slight
paraphrase Of an old quotation.