Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1917 — MANY GIRLS ARE SENSIBLE [ARTICLE]

MANY GIRLS ARE SENSIBLE

Those Who Think and Act With Discretion Are Playing Important Part in World’s Work. Cynics have had so much to say in their caustic way about frivolous girls that a visitor from Mars, unaccustomed to our mode of life, might suspect there are no sonsilUegirJs—on —this planet. But those who go in and out of the homes of the people a great deal know there are girls who think, who reason and who act with wise discrimination, says a writer in the Salt Lake Herald-Republican. Suppose there are those of languid or coquettish temperaments who spend idle hours in conjuring up romantic day dreams and who engage in flirtatious follies when they go abroad in public. They create more comment because they do - most to~hire the eye of admirationTHatTs~easny~attractednsy physical charms. The domestic girl may not be less favored in the endowment of feminine graces, but being not so vain and having a profound regard for the more enduring attributes of human affection, her faculty of ratiocination schools her indifference to infatuation that is only shallow and transitory. We have evidences everywhere of the girls who think and are doing a great part of the world’s work. They have taken upon themselves an ever increasing share of the professions where thinking is essential to doing. They take an active interest in the educational, industrial and economic problems of the community, state and nation in which many of the most practical suggestions are made by girls and women who think. They are nobly assuming serious responsibilities imposed by war, as they will also in the mighty tasks that wifi come after the war. And the greatest blessing of all which a ray nf hope through the tnfsts of the present is that girls who think will become the dependable mothers of the future.