Show D lEvellIng Evening Chi Cha Chii-Cha L-Cha L I 1 1 BY RUTH EUTH CAMERON WELL TELL known magazine in it itH September Sep Sep- i Issue 15 published a a list lisl of oft t alI all th the tho girls girls' boarding schools which 1 iad d advertised iu in its pages during he hc V last 3 year j ear at the thc length le of the thc list I took and trouble to count it h rc were of that d those those- figures represent of course g the tho schools that advertised iu It ono azin 1 y do not include tho the schools that in the hundreds hundreds' of other in l the tho United Sta States les bey do not nol include the thc schools which m not Inot t advertise at all aU haps you wonder why I said apI ap I l d above c perhaps you wonder why I 1 mention aUst an anyway Jn tell you Just this Those figures off us us a little idea of tho the tremendous ent to which th the American mother molher Is IsU U the tho habit of turning turning- her young oung over to strangers to bring up I friend of mine wrote me last sum sum- I to ask if I could give ive her an any adas ad- ad 5 as LS to a good boarding school to Bh might send her year fourteen-year- daughter to prepare her for college wrote back to inquire just j what duties d dIt it impossible for her to k keep fp that a a headstrong sensitive bril bril- creature as much in need of and guidance that love lovo alone alono 1 iSho gIve as an any girl rl over ever was was right a right sr sh she belonged under her own wing wins I heard beard from her since I am aid she was offended at my plain a aking n ut utI I would do it again lam rm a firm bf believer iwer in sending sending- the enteen or year old girl away college oll ge I believe that tho the advantage ii lof of that ape age derives from looking herself darning her own on stock- stock i s. s makIng her het own decision ordering lP IV 11 life outweigh the disadvantages nd I nd admit there arc are plenty of college ge life S to send Fend a girl 12 or 13 or 14 years away ay from home home to to give gh-e to outsiders s most plastic and sensitive period of to trust to io stran strangers ers that most process the molding of girlhood to be bo separated from front a Jd t time when so 50 many instincts i r so o man many wonders at are de de- s satisfaction Well satisfaction well I can scarce scarce- n tho mother who could dyet et by tho the showing showing- of 1 schools et in a single magazine azine it looks I there must ho be plenty of such wo woo I 1 nd Just think one of these f schools jally offered to take tat girls from l kin kin- n- n ago to college ears man many protests against the theIn then In n which the wealthy mother gives Jives r I. the care of her little baby to a maid or trained nurse I dont don't think she does as or runs runs as much rIgI as the her who ho is willing to find in the open Sc of j of the boarding school a solution of ot difficulties in molding her young oung liters liter's mind and character 5 u S fad l 1 A |