Salt Lake Herald | 1893-12-10 | Page 11 | The Question of Chaperons

The Question of Chaperon In this workaday world if women I must be wage earners and bread winners win-ners so far as they are concerned chaperons are impossible alike in Eng land and America In most factories workshops and salesrooms in America at least the women are as carefully guarded against insulting approaches or regarding entanglements as they would be in their own homes So therefore there is no reason in the world why in America we should soar so-ar as these girls are concerned bother oureslves as to whether they have chaperons or not If there is danger to this class of girls in England because be-cause they cannot have chaperons it might be well for those having the social condition of the mother country at heart to study the methods almost universally in use in the United States and to the extent of adopting these methods Americanize the working girls of England But so far as the wealthy classes are concerned either in Great Britain or the United States there is no essential difference nor likely soon to be any The presence of older women in every company adds to the dignity and variety quite as much as to the decorum and propriety N Y Commercial Advertiser