Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-03
DIX'S COLUMN
Plant Ideals in the Heart of the Maid AE4EE
of Any Era and She'll Garry All the AZ
Protection She Needs in Her Own Breast

Protection She Needs in Her Own Breast
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But now! Oh, la, la! The girls have broken their leading strings.
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them aid: "e ''9N 'S q's'D" Tue 0"f Jay su m Of
nj a "T Vhsn. ! a s yoSn IS t% mo nice s, girl girl " went am ANYWHERE with.
off alone together o. a lark, without some older woman along
would simply have been out of the question, and as for a
Eaf fS'h have on done e n thar t With aho Ru TG W a b monm~a n.y. y go G weeId
young woman would have dreamed of such a thing "a a going going
to a restaurant with a mar unless she had been properly
ed nc m6 RqSsnt9 receive. tSGK gs t tS balls ans and %sl Pss sssts ea when Them young men CALI
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HeftheT ss expected ss@ 1 s'% desired tS call j" presence in the drawing room was
after "R Ps @ RS 7 aa ya a GIRL ! ' sR. h pihd h0m MEM nay n @s ssss n le0h #
d5a IT hp fe a sg very msr a%d tine aR and IDS she nv wonders der, how | ever
Teilance; t She fa expresses the opinion that n Q girl who
tine or catch a husband nowadays S%t S'' She G' says S% the Boy boys 8 sin aIS
10 And she's right Look at the Blank girls Pretty beautifully dressed.
money %s S'@e eneTta nlasf fo y t tn nSef BUT f never A%a t9 hTe parents a eartic aeso of a lasas OF
n n m r6ha 0ee "A fbe mercy re mno they y TO- mothero OF father is along Father
boy boy asks SKIS ne of the girls to 9 riding. mother appears in her automobls
pa% I'M IN t he' back % < o papi S m n Is Gso oman dnGrS Sfry wf father hSst sits aua and reads his
comes again Every ne of those girls is being chaperoned into the srsn-
And there we are concluded the woman, "t we don't chaperene IN
daughters, we dom feel that we re doing IL duty by them,a and If we d o
chaperon them, W ae spoiLsports who kill all their fun, and make old
maids o them, 81 what r W to do?'
old t n9ss Sa:9 ssG oS Tas iR5s the 1s t fls' @sl! T s%d z . .ss ss e, as.
nan land perhaps she isn't a great a lossa as we think she is.
Perhaps she was always more of a fgurehead of respeda-
experience that the people who have % be watched ire not
worthy watching. Besides, there always ONE a place where
the watching breaks down. If a girl is wild and giddy, she
will give LEI mother the slip somewhere and go Ter own gait.
And if she has got the right sorto " ms and principle she
will go straight Whether her mothers we is Oh her II not.
Nor than that how ire you going tic chaperon girls when they don't
stay put rs they used to? Mother can't go to work with hr daughters
and play proprfety in a store Or office. And, anyway, it's absured to sup
hold down a good job, hasn't got ense enough to know how to behave her-
self.
"of course, it terrifies us mothers % see III little young daughters
venturing outside Of the sheep fold without our being there 20 protec.
them, but the girls say they know how to take care o themselves, and
apparently they do, for there's are n o more scandals than there used to be.
Certainly a girl # sixteen in these days is nor sophisticated and harder
boiled than her grandmother is 1T sixty"
IT think" said the third woman, that We have to do our
chaperoning in the cradle, and that if We do that well, the
balance doesn't matter. I mean that a girls character is
formed by the time she is twelve years old, and if from the
time that she could understand anything at all W e have
taught her purity of mind and body; if we have impressed
o her ideals of modesty and the beauty of innocence; If we
have taught her to hold her honor above her life, then we
don't need to worry about the balance.
"She won't need to be watched. She has got all the protection she
needs in her W breast. She will be her W chaperon and require n %
other" DOROTHY DIX.
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