Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS TAIlS BI J DOROTHY DIX tho the Worlds World's Highest Paid Woman Writer PLANT IDEALS IN THE HEART OF THE MAID OF ANY ERA AND SHELL SHE'LL CARRY ALL THE PROTECTION SHE NEEDS IN HER OWN BREAST the that most perplex mothers in these free and and J NE ot of questions ONE 0 easy das daIs dav s Is how to take tahe care of their daughters and protect them them from the d dangers into which and ignorance and foolhardiness are always liable to stumble s e In the good flood old times this Nas y asi was easy Then mothers mother's first duty was to be an efficient watch dog She S z kept a wary eye on her girls and they were never permitted to stir away from her skirts unless some other reliable duenna was on the I i job She kept faithful tab on the comings and going of her daughters P and they never went without her them UT now Oh la Ia a la Ia a The girls have BUT B broken theIr leadIng strings and they've got ot their own latch ke kev s e and mother has baa got nervous prostration 13 Iving lag awake at nIght listening for tor them hem to come hom home n what she Bhe ought to do about it Some women ere dl discussIng this ques- ques question question tion the other day and one ono of them said DOROTHY DIX When I was young no nIce girl went anywhere without a chaperon chaperon Such a thing as a lot lotof lotof of young people going off atone alone together on a lark without some older woman along would simply have been out of the question and as for a girl girt going on a long tong ride nde alone with a aman why man why you would hardly have done that with your own brother and fio o 0 decent young woman would have dreamed of such a thing as going to a restaurant with a nan man man unless she had been chaperoned I OUR VUR parents took us to ball and parties and when v oung men called called J our mothers received them and helped entertain them When I tell my daughter this she sa say that thank God d the chap chap- chaperon chaperon eron Is as extinct as CS the dodo and she simply wouldn't stand for tor any any- anybody anybody bod body shadowing her and w us Ith the brutal candor of or youth she informed me that her beaux did not come to see me and gave me to understand that when hen young men came to call my presence In the drawing room sat as neither expected nor desired Furthermore when I tell her how my mother looked after me when I was a girl she ahe pities me and asks a ks me if I didn't have a very dull time and she wonders how I ever managed to get married when I was under that sort of surveillance She further expresses the opinion that no girl who has a mother who queers queers her that way could have a good time or catch a husband nowadays She says the boys simply would pass herup herup her up P AND AND she's right Look at the Blank Blank girls Pr Pretty tty beautifully dressed tine fine dancers attractive In e every ery way aay ay And their parents spend loads ot or money entertaining for them but the they never have a particle of attention from men because they go mother or father Is along Father and mother lake take them to places ot of amusement and come ome for them thero If a boy asks one que of ot the girls to go riding riding- mother appears in her automobile coat and hat to go too If a young man mancall mancall call father sIts Bits and reads his paper In the back parlor and Its Good GoodnIght Goodnight nIght with that youth He never comes again Everyone Every one of those girls Is being chaperoned Into the spinsters spinster's retreat And there we are concluded the woman It if we Ve dont chaperone our daughters we e dont don't feel that 1 we ae e are doing our duty by them and tf If We ve do chaperon them thero we are sports spoil who aho bo kill kiU all their fun tun and old maids fit at t them thero so what are we to do Th The chapron chaperon went Into the discard with a lot Jot of other old traditions and conventions In the war said another woman woman and perhaps she Isn't ae as great a loss as we think she is la Per Perhaps haps she was always more of a figurehead of re than any real protection because It ha has always been my experience that people who have to be watched are not worth watch If a girl Is wild and giddy she will give her mother the slip somewhere and go her own gait And If she he has haa ha the right sort of sense and principle she will wiil go straight whether her moth moth- mother's mothers ers er's eye Is on her hem or not MORE ORE I than that how are vou ou going to chaperon girls when they 1 dont don't stay put as the they used to Mother cant can't go to work with her daughters and play In a store or office And anyway Its It's ab absurd surd to suppose that a girl who has brains enough to take a college de degree gree know how or to hold down a good job hasn't got sense enough to know how to behave herself Of course It ten us mothers to see our litle lIUe young oung daughters venturing outside or of o the sheep fold told without our being there to protect but the girl say ay they know Inow how to take lake care of o themselves and apparently they do tor for there are no more scandals than there used to tobe be Certainly a girl of sixteen in these days is more sophisticated arid and than her grandmother Is at sixty I think said eald the third woman that we have to do our chaperoning In the cradle and that if we do that well the remainder doesn't matter I mean that a girls girl's character r II ha formed by the time she Is twelve years old and if from the 4 time that she the could understand anything at all we have taught her purity of mind and body If we have Impressed on her Ideals of modesty and the beauty of innocence If we have taught her to hold her honor life then we dont don't need to worry about the remainder S wont won't need to bo be watched She has all SHE S k a got vi o the me protection she needs Ia her own breast She will be her own chaperon and require other ln no DOROTHY DIX right 1923 bv by bv Public Ledger 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