Show Of Or MODERN fittL AFTER LEAVING VING SCHOOL BT BY MARGARET E SANGSTER HEN HE Phebe and I were girls girle we looked for forward forward I Iward W ward to a pleasant time at home homo with plenty of fun and freedom friends coming and going possibly possibly possibly bly the stir of weddings in some not remote fu future future future ture The girls of our ouray oay aay ay did diet not say very about it but nut it was part of their unwritten pro ro I gramme one day or other to be mar married married ried lied and have homes of their own daughters and mine had a avery aery avery very ery different outlook on life Ufe I shall never admit that they have had a bet better better better ter education than ours urs for the mis mission misSIOn mission sion of womanhood but I cannot deny d y that they h l nave ave ve had an education on ona ona ona a broader plane and on more scientific lines fines Ine They have ha had the mental dis discipline discipline discipline and the Intellectual training ac accorded accorded accorded corded to their brothers and when they have been graduated they have very ver naturally desired to put their ed education education education to some practical use Either they have realized l and If they are en enthusiastic thu students this is a matter of course that a college curriculum Is only a good foundation on which to build in which case they have sought further opportunities or else they have desired a business or professional ca career career Career reer They Thc have preferred to earn money rather than to have it given them th em To spend time at home in leisurely leisurE ly elegance helping he ing with housekeeping visiting and receiving visitors shop shopping shopping ping and frittering strength on little duties seems seema a flavorless and fruit fruitless fruitless less Jess thing thin to some of our finest girls Their brothers are in the arena There is no reason why they should rust In ini idleness leness i when there is so much work to be done In the world beyond the home homeNo homeNo homeNo No one can cn fail to sympathize with the restlessness pf the modern girl She simply feels the pressure pressur of the surrounding atmosphere Everyone she sees is busy Why should she be the only exception There is room enough for our eager hearted girls in philan philanthropy philanthropy where they may live in ia college settlements and help their sisters whose lives are pitifully meager mEaer The universal need for the trained nurse in the sick room has opened widely an another another another other door for women who wish Ish to be beof beof beof of service in their age Teachers are urgently in demand and their train training training training ing cannot now no be too thorough nor their devotion too great to the splendid profession they select The gentlewoman man engaged in teaching whether in iii inthe the th kindergarten among the babies or orin orin orin in the class clagg room where the seniors grapple with questions profound and wonderful is ie one of the finest forces of our civilization Our educated young women Omen are loudly called for not alone in our home land but every everywhere everywhere where on earth In Syria and Ceylon in Japan and fwd Hindustan in South Af At Africa Africa rica and the Philippines all around the globe there are places waiting for our American woman teachers and our American women physicians and wherever they go they the are carrying carling with them the best our country has to show how and give In business circles s there are chances chancos 11 for clever girls not merely merel for those girls WK who earn a weekly wage and who must always alwa s be in the majority but for the girls who have haye the grasp the steadiness and It may be the au audacity of business bu men A girl often succeeds beyond yond her own hopes when fhe flIe is enabled by the aid of some cap capital capital caps s ital itai and her own pluck and fearless fearlessness ness nef to ta do what her brothers have lone for years and years without elic eliciting elicIting eliciting comment Some Bom inherit wealth The richest woman oman w in America the one most loved and honored Helen Miller Gould cannot be called a business woman woman but she Me manages her wide interests with the peculiarly marked talent for finance inherent in her family and shows plainly what hat rank a woman may take in looking after large affairs ur I take off my hat to her brain and her heart whenever I pass Helen Goulds door said a man of authority In n the world of business yet I have ha Vf never seen the lady to my knowledge IT he met her he would have seen een seena st a t fair woman of low 10 voice and gracious manner some ome years under r 40 10 still sun fn en entitled titled f by courtesy to the honors of girl girlhood girlhood girlhood hood Xo No o wonder our girls are restless when fo 10 o much beckons them from the out outside outRide outside side Ride and they feel in themselves the th capacity for success I at least do inot I Inot Inot not blame them thorn I fully comprehend I I Ithe the allurements and the sweetness of the call tali that sounds in their ears ear And 3 yet et 1 deprecate the restlessness restle ness of our girls gills and view It with no little regret It is I in a 3 way an unfairness to their mothers in the case ca e of rich girls who need Tle d not add to the family exchequer It to ia J in a way wa a menace to content contentment contentment ment when the married woman shall p settle down to the quiet monotony of her wifehood and the exhausting de demands demands demands mands of her motherhood Here is I one aspect frequently re rp d Mrs Irs card is sent to me I am glad that she has called and I step forward to greet her with cordial pleasure Over our afternoon tea we e chat ch t In desultory fashion but butI I notice nU e that Mrs Homebody Is ab absent absent sent minded and a It little pensive she is a pretty woman Waman delicate and high highbred highbred highbred bred and aud she carries her years lightly for I 1 think she must be somewhere Just on the hither side ide of 50 O O Her hair hairis t is i not i silvered red and her eyes are not dimmed She has a queenly and ma matronly matronly matronly air You are very happy I venture dear dar Mrs Irs Homebody now that you have ve Constance and Elizabeth both bot h with r Ith you OU again It must be lovely lovel to have two such bonny daughters in th house Mr Homebody told me that for his part he could never go through it again having two twp girls at college at once and that you ou felt just as he did Yes she answered HI I have decided and so o has John that Mildred d shall be b taught tau at home We e are not to have hae any an good of our girls at all Constance Is going Ing to Berlin to study advanced German or something and Elizabeth has lIas enrolled herself in the Medical college as a student She is to tobe tobe tobe be a doctor I think most probably I Imay Imay Imay may be her bel first patient for I dont feel as well as I used to and rm Im nearly nearl heartbroken at giving up my girls i again so 50 soon I Mothers lothers dont know when they are well en off of C she went on with a sigh I When you tuck in your Jour babies at I night when you have them playing around ar und your feet while you go about the house you can enjoy them But I not in these days d s when they are grown gron up I IThen Then Mrs Homebody wrapped her I furs around her and went away awa awaIt It really did not seem quite fair She would so have hae enjoyed enjo ed going about I with her daughters having haing the charm of or their youthful presence with her and I welcoming their friends and admirers into the home and lo utility and the 1 spirit of the age had scored a triumph One girl would be a great scholar the theother theother other othar a useful doctor but where did th the mother come In and what had be become become become come of her claims No wonder the poor lady felt discouraged So long as society continues there will be a 8 distinct place for The fhe girl who is not restless and who making her choke e with open eyes decides that love lov lo Is better than ambition that home affords afford a legitimate sphere of action and that she need not go far afield to find the best career a woman can have Our old traditions cannot be all mis mistaken mistaken mistaken taken There stilt still clings rUngs the delicate perfume of or th the rose about the girl who is rr rf rf f tin s nor or dissatisfied dis who ma may C e en be pc a little slow filow and u a little stupid as as a compared with her brilliant sisters but who is the peculiar treas treasure ure of her father and mother and the dear delight of oher her home horne Copyright 1905 by Joseph B Bowles Bowl s |