Show y M MAN N CANNOT RAISE THE MOR l STANDARD r i Dr Marden world famous philosopher philosopher pher is writing a series of articles for Pi Pictorial tor ia Review on the now new woman a and d her hei opportunities Tho The following is reprinted by special permission of ti the publisher K Experience has shown that men as a amass t mass cannot annot bo be trusted to raise rae tho the moral standards and this most important import import- ant work of civilization must most be done dono f. f by by women The intelligent girl of the future will very materially raise ralso the thet t marriage o standards s. s There will 1 n be less lessof lessof of tho the animal less of the tho gross our f marriages will bo be more moro mental menta more f spiritual more intelligent than for for- f merly I The new girl will wiIl know what she is is f doin doing when sho she goes to tho the altar She SheI i I will be a posted upon the step she is tak tak- taking ing Sin and not go o ignorantly an and blindfolded blind blind- folded as in hi the ho past What bat a price rice in frightful tragedies mothers have compelled their dau daughters to pay for forthe their innocence tho the preservation reservation of their their innocence Sex Knowledge e i is protection Ignorance on these most sacred matters is fatal Tho sex education of our children is f based on the tho principle that go is I p power w r. r that it safeguards Our schools and colleges colleges' ive instruction m on scores of subjects which are never nc used direct direct- directly ly 1 in lit life ife but are tau taught ht for the sake of f di discipline and yet et the tho he cr very subject ignorance of which has wrecked more human bein beings 8 than any other one thing and knowledge of which would servo both for discipline and d development is s untouched Many generations have bavo Joined in iii in i tho the conspiracy of silence in matters pertaining to sex sex says bays President Fowler of Reed college Having almost almost al al- most mOst no opportunity to hear s sex x and matrimony discussed with reverence almost invariably invariably our young youn people have havo ably heard h ard these matters discussed with vulgarity Box Sox aspects of hygiene should hould be be e dealt with as a 3 a phase of school hygiene The pr pro proper ir or training inin of girls alon along sex lines t would lar largely ely do ao o away with the I white slave slavo traffic There are ore man many educated girls who who come como from s splendid id homes to the largo large arge cities to take tae up some flome vocation and who find life BO so lonely and its problems so 80 very cry di difficult cult that thc they are often an easy prey to the wily wHy smooth diplo- diplo matico matic unprincipled men who take tako advantage advantage ad ad- vantage of their loneliness their longin longing longing long long- in ing for a homo for sympathy and for formale male finale society The very sense of freedom the liberty liberty lib lib lib- erty which girls feel when they first get et away from restraint especially if it tho he parents' parents rule has haa been severe is very verv dangerous to the girl rl who has not learned the lessons of self control and self sell reliance in her home ome The training of the tho now new girl rl to meet the tho new conditions will wiIl call caB out of the feminine nature great powers which have havo nave never nover before been dovolo developed ed Training in st if reliance and self help el elwill will uncover mar marvelous resources which whit before she ehe nevor ne dreamed she possessed It will call out her inventiveness iD s her resourcefulness it will call caIl out her Instead of tho the merely decorative ornamental woman she has been in the past she is going to be bo anew a a. anew new and powerful force in in civilization The coming woman will be measured by br her character and efficiency by what she sho accomplished 1 bv by the degree in which she unfolds in self expression on She Sho will stand for more in her community com corn she will me mean n more as 3 a wife mother and sister Bister because of her new now ambitions her independent training her self reliance Courtesy Courtesy of Pictorial R Review February 1911 |