Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1914 — Defends American Boys. [ARTICLE]

Defends American Boys.

Mrs. Joseph Gazzam of Philadelphia says that when she was in Berlin and Dresden she heard much criticism of the way in which Americans coddle their boys, and the Germans declared that if ever the Americans expected to do any fighting they must change their methods of training boys. Mrs. Gazzam replied that much as American boys are “coddled," no one ever heard of an American girl cleaning her brother’s boots. Our men may be spoiled, she said, but not at the expense of the girls.—Woman’s National Weekly.