Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-23
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

There are still about US localities that foster the ideas of
ancient days In regard to e~quipping ones daughter for life.
Son Is to be prepared OF great pains and expense for his place
in the world of struggle against competition in some line that
interests him. That is the story, of course, to pass on suf-
ficient equipment 10 son to give him his start in the contest.
But how about daughterf In certain sections of the eoun-
Try. every girl who finishes high school fairly creditably and
who eyinees . desire TO go on with work that win train her to
do something that will make her selfsupporting, is encoufag-
ed by her family to go to college. A college course, means
a great deal more ~self-denial to q great many more fathers and
merners than one has any idea Of, but still you see each year
large numbers OF new graduates from high school starting off
to college. It. s o fine thing for a town to be- that kind Of town,
the kind whose boys and girls go to college, no matter how
Have you ever lived in a town where it WASH the thing for
girls to go to conegef Where the girls from the few rich fam
lilies sometimes were sent of to a finishing school for a year to
put on a little enamel of exclusiyeness and a certain AIR
to make possible a more desirable marriagea And where all
the other girls just sat around and waited and waited for
young men to come along and marry themY
I have heard, and you have heard, perfectly good and
fairly prosperous fathers say, What's the use OF sending
Minnie to eollegei II I spend all that money on her eduea-
ton, she'll only get married. What's an education worth
then r.,
The question sounds unanswerable, and SO countless Min
MES and Margies and Beetles stay at home, helping with the
housework, making their dresses, giving an endless string of
linen showers to the lucky ones of their number, and embroid-
ering lingerie to put away in their hopechestsl Poor, hope
less, hope-chestsl
ing stretches on into; years, the competition increases, a growl
begins to develop under the purr, and claws under the velvet
pawti Thus evolves the feline womanl y
f.ren stTw a = had said 80 sWhv nrobabIv Minnie WILL get
married as soon as she gets out of college. What's that to
met She'll probably get a better husband and she'll certain
ly make a better wife for having had her four years of college
training. She will certainly be a better mother. Mothers need
all the training they can get to help them along with the
biggest job in the world. I want Minnie to have her chance,
and no matter what she does after she finishes college, she'll
be better off for the experience"
I know a great many college women who are married, and
most of them very happily married, too. They are not often
rich fmost college girls come from the great middle class
and they marry college men, who come from the same class.
Among the college women | know, | have never seen one
who shirked her responsibilities, who required constant pet
ting and pampering to keep her from pouting, who was
alwaysAdiscontented because she didnt have as much Jewelry
as her acduaintances or as fine a car, or as pretentious a house.
They are better sports than that. They go into marriage with
the same spirit that they have had in college-the high re-
solve to play the game to the best OF their ability, to accept
defeat gracefully and to bear success serenely.
When I have seen towns full of attractive girls land not
an eligible man in slightly I have been filed with wrath at
the short-sighted fathers and mothers Casually fathers) VINO
didnt give daughter her chancel It's such frightful waste
Of fine human material. Lives that might have been productive
are stagnant instead.
So It's up to- father and mother to head daughter IN the d.
rection of achievement, to nourish her ambition. l you are a
parent who has kept daughter home because you Just
couldn't bear to have her away from you,'' you have been
a wicked parent. May the. good Lord have mercy on your
soul. I shouldn't. You have soaked her up as a blotter soaks
up ink. Is that being a good parents
1t has finally been proved, after centuries OF doubt, that
women Chat means girls, too) ARE human beings. Bear that
in mind and give daughter her chance!