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Show BOHEMIA BAD FOR GIRLS. When at a great sacrifice you send your girl to study art in Xew York, full of hopes, you will save pain and disappointment if you consider beforehand before-hand what you are going to get back. If your girl is a genius fortunately for American home making mak-ing she seldom is you will probably never get anything any-thing back. She will doubtless stay there. If she is just a girl, like most girls, you are going to get back something that you never bargained for. For your information I am going to make three definite charges against Bohemia, which I am convinced con-vinced by personal observation cannot be denied : 1. That Bohemia degenerates far more talent than it develops. 2. Bohemia induces vicious habits cigarette smoking, and really strong drinking ( whiskey and cocktails) among young girls. 3. Bohemia unfits girls both in taste and character char-acter for family life and family making. Two or three years of Bohemia can make a more complete change in a girl's character than any other one thing I know of, including the stage, because its influence is more insidious than any other. It offers complete liberty of life and companionship without guidance to unexperienced girls. They live in a sort of community set apart, where law, order and all conventions are despised and descried by the older habitues who are. They adopt Bohemia's badge freakish untidy dress, and strange, "original" "orig-inal" affectations of manner and speech. The fruits of Bohemia's teachings are discontent and a a priggish contempt of home duty, old friends and ways, a horror of life among one's own people, and absolute refusal jf the responsibilities of wifehood and motherhood, on the grounds that respectability is utterly plebian, and most 'people would better not have been born, anyway. Perhaps this cheap cynicism cyni-cism is right for Bohemians. If these things are good to know, Bohemia is the place to snd your daughter to learn them. Anna Evans in Delineator. |