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Show MILITANT IN THE MAKING Small Girl Has Begun Early to Resent Restrictions Imposed Upon Her by Her Sex. Children often voice the spirit of their times in surprising manner. Little Lit-tle Elsie, for example, in the pertinent questions her adult relatives found so difficult of reply. Several times in a single day the little girl had encountered en-countered the wall of conventionality interdicting for her joys and liberties easily granted her brother, and at last, when told that nice little girls must not play in the street after dark, even upon special occasion such as Hallowe'en, Hal-lowe'en, she was tempted toward open revolt. "Mother, who made things so much harder for girls than boys?" she asked, suddenly. "Boys can do many things girls can't and they have good times, somehow. Who said it was to be so?" "God, I suppose," was mother's dubious but determined answer. Elsie considered the case in silence for a few moments ther burst out impulsively: im-pulsively: "Well, I wonder who'd call that just?" |