The Girl and Her Religion

ut too much cannot be said, and the value of the influence of good homes and parents whose ideals are high cannot be overestimated. The girl whose home life during the first

her play, in her conversation, in her countless

ly looking at them. Finally she took one from the group, placed it in the little chair, very straight and said "Look at me! Did 'oo tell true? 'Oo didn't tell true. Naughty girl." A sigh followed. Then slowly Esther came over to her mother, ignoring my presence. Her lips quivered and smoothing her mother's hand she said sadly, "Esther didn't tell true. Naughty, naughty girl." The little girl at four years of age had her ideal of a good girl

truth, unselfishness and honor and they steady her

d toes, represent ideals of fashion and beauty. The girl in Japan, China or the Philippines thinks she has made herself beautiful when she has arrayed herself in accordance with her ideals. We often ter

commands. Our country needs today more than ever before, the girl with high ideals, for it

into business life. It is hard for the wide awake business girl of today to imagine how that girl of long ago managed to enjoy life. But monotonous as her life often was, she was spared many things. She never rode alone in trains and trolleys nor learned to jostle and push through crowds. She was not compelled to return home late at night without

girls who today are girls of high ideals, who refuse to let the carelessness of t

gained entrance. It has split it asunder because it was able to gain entrance through a little crack and each day sent in its drops of water where now with that roar rushes the tide. Farther along the shore is a soli

y resisting those things that seek a tiny crevice by which to enter. For we have so many who through some weak spot have let t

es so full of promise and of courage. We find them among the very rich and among the very poor as well

some household and when the father comes home intoxicated the law is obliged often to interfere. One of the boys was expelled from school because his language is so dreadful. Amid this environment the girl lives. She studies her lessons in school and at the library. Her mother constantly urges her to give up school and g

y she loses herself in her lessons and enjoys her school friends. She is only sixteen and she cannot help hoping that things will be better soon. But Wednesday there is another dreadful quarrel, bitter words and her father's drunken threats. When late at night all is quiet and she creep

r feel a deep sympathy for all who suffer and have need. A fine young uncle who has used his wealth to comfort the old and save the sick, told her many a tale that stirred her soul, and her admiration for the young man of millions who worked as hard every day as any man in his office but never for himself, helped in forming h

d laughter, she remains true to her ideals. She is not a book-worm but she studies, she is no

her presence. Honest, attentive, true, interested in her work,

ss she will not tolerate. She seeks no honors save those fairly won. Keen, alert, pure and true, capable of sacrifice and

, or the temptations which come with low wages and great fatigue to enter her life. Again and again she has revealed her ideals in mo

her work, resisting all the temptations that come through lonel

e, scorning all forms of gossip, neither listening to, nor repeating the words that "they

commend, refusing to lower her ideals in obedience to subtile suggestions or definite temptations;

and frolic and to get the most out of everything, for she need not spend days in regret, nor wet her pillow with tears of remorse. Nothing in the world can make up for

reet the sort of dress which attracts attention and causes remarks to fall from the lips of loafers as she passes, perhaps to accept invitations from those who do not measure up to the standard, perhaps to engage in a dance in which the ideal could not jo