Show DOROTHY MX DIX TALKS TAUS TALK By DOROTHY DOROTnY DI Jut DIX th the Worlds World's Paid Woman V Writer riter PLANT EARLY IN LIFE THE SEED OF A REAL FRIENDSHIP WITH YOUR DAUGHTER CULTIVATE IN HER CHARACTER THE GOOD PRINCIPLES THAT ARE WOMANS WOMAN'S ONLY SAFEGUARD AND LET HER GROW UP IN INTHE INTHE INTHE THE SUNSHINE OF A REAL HOMEI HOME I A MOTHER writes to me roe I I hav h vo four little girls I want to rear A them to be fine women How Now shall I do It t Well if f I 1 hd hid four fur little daughters daughter to t bring up I should begin by winning their friendship Not N 1 love l ve Virtually all girls girl love J their mothers m th ra but very few iris are friends with their mothers mothe And It Is II I quite another thing to be b on n IntImate terms term with her E ERY TRY RY mother looks look forward to being churn chums with her when they grow crow up but few w e er realize thil thia dream Instead In te d they find that theft theil 1 daughters are aro strangers with whom horn hom the they are lire less ac than the they are arc aroith with ith fth any other women In the tho world and Dd they y complain that they never I know what their girls girl are ar doing doln u i This Ii la i bee because use the have base ha e neVEr nver made mad friends with their children They Th y never neTer made companions companion ot or them when they were little There were no jolly se I S LU IA l l crets creta between them no habit of or established establish ed no sure knowledge that hat mother would always un understand that she Mould auld ah aha a s sympathize and an always help If I were my daughters most Intimate friend I would know that they would not go far wrong wr ng for fr I would wul be a sort of f ape Ipe p cial providence watching over ver them thern knowing what they were thInking of f doing dong before they did it In time to t protect them from danger I haveA I SHOULD teach my daughters daughter self control 11 It is the tb girls who have never been taught to control their passions who ho recruit the sorrowful sisterhood ot of the th streets It Is the girls who ho have bave never neer boon been taught to control their tempers tempera who fill the divorce courts and break up theIr th homes and orphan their children It Is the th gIrls eirls who ha halo hao 0 never neer been taught to curb their desire who ho ruin their husbands with ith their extras atance gance and are a curse to the men who marry themI them I should teach my girl baby In her cradle to t bite back her cries when she was hurt I I should teach her as soon sn as she could understand anything to do without things she sh wanted without whining I should teach her to t do d the thing she sh didn't want to do because It was waa her duty and to have the grit to carryon carry on when It took sheer nerve to t do it And when I had taught her courage and fortitude and persistence I would know that I had given her weapons that would never fall fail her with which to fight the battle of life he I P SHOULD give my daughters d the th best education that I could and this auld Include a thorough and practical know kno ledge lode of oC all housewifely duties for Cor no matter lter what hat else els f a woman needs to lo know In la life IlCe Eho ebo ho Is dead sure to need to know how to cook cooL and sew and to be an expert In buyIng butchers butcher's meat and darning stockings I should see se to t it t that my daughters daughter were trained in some seme ji i- i gainful occupation by which they could support themselves if f necessary A good trade or r profession Is the best protection that any girl can have hav against a foolish marriage or having to t endure a miserable one on The girl who wh can make a good goad salary does not have to marry a home h m and a shopping shipping ticket The girl with a career does dees not have to t marry to t find an Interest In life and an outlet for her ambitions The woman who wh can cOIn go back to her old Job any day does not net have to stand a brutal and tyrannical husband I 0 SHOULD tell my daughters of o all the dangers dancers that beset the or of a girl I should tell them why It Is wrong to let men kiss them and fondle Candle them and that a womans woman's peril Is al always ays more from Cram It Is from Irom without I should tell them that they must watch themselves even more than they watch men Ignorance Is not Innocence and the Ie less Ignorant a girl Is la the more apt she ahe Is to stay Innocent In these the days every girl has haa practically to be her own chaper- chaper chaperone one chaper-one one and the only way she can protect herself Is by being wise T THE lIE best safeguard that any girl can have hav Is a sense of modesty and and good moral principles and If Ie these have been bred In her front her Infancy It ft she has been taught to keep Leep her body sacred Instead or of exploiting It to le lewd lend d gaze faze Ir if she has been boen taught to loathe vulgarity as she be d doe something unclean and to hold her honor above her life lICe r does not have hav to lie II awake at nIght wondering what hat she Is r doing doine Those Thos who have hav been brought broucht up to run straight seldom go col f crooked I should try to t meet the boy problem Intelligently I I should know that from Irom fourteen to t eighteen girls are ar practically boy crazy and whether they come through this crucial time In their live liv safely or r go g to t ruin depends largely upon their mothers SO S 00 I WOULD not be b foolish enough to tell my girls that they should 3 not have dates and that no bo bos s should como come corn to the house for I f would know that when you lock a girl tirl up In her room she Is I apt to out of ot the th window and elope elore with the first youth who comes along and that If It you will not let lt them receive their beaux In the parlor they meet them on tho the street corner Therefore I should try to t make my home the center of my daughters daughter pleasures I would give h her r such a good god time she would be b In no hurry to get married And I would get ac- ac acquainted ac acquainted with the th boys bOYI boy aho sh knew and gently and painlessly eliminate the th unfit CIrt will listen a lot let to t mother if they think mother mether Is playing the tho th game gam with them But they are deaf to her commands and warnings If they feel she Is a II spoil spall sport IF ir F I HAD daughters I would pray God to give lv me m the th wisdom ot or the J theIA J owl and the th subtlety of the serpent and an Iron hand band In a velvet Al glove In dealing with them For rearing a a girl firl Is one fo fa the th biggest jobs on earth DOROTHY DIX 1925 b by Public Ledger Company |