LADY TENNYSON AND THE TRAINING OF GIRLS.
■0 — Addressing the Council and officers of the Mothers' Union and of the Girls' Friendly Society at Sydney recently, Lady Tennyson said : — "All who care for the welfare of Australia, and, I may add, the whole of the British Empire, must feel deeply anxious, and truly sorrowful, if they have heard, as I have, about the awful events that are spreading so disastrously and so appalling in our midst, and must recognise the boundless work there is to be done. I was told the other day by someone who has had the training of girls of all ages for many years — and I also know iti by my own experience in Sou^h Australia — that the most dangerous part of a girl's life is from 14 to 18, and tliat, if only they are carefully guided tV the age of 20, they are then generally capable of looking after v themselves. Do lei us impress upon the mothers of Australia to watch, and, above all, ( -pray,-
against the insane lovo of excitement which is doing so much imnieasur.ibli' harm to their young sons and daughters. It seems to me that love of excitement h tho base of most of Ihe evil of the prosent day — the principal aim in many mothers of all classes being to work and strive to gut their children its much selfindulgent pleasure as possible, and they train them to believe thai this is the true object of life. Alas ! often they do not stop to consider whether pleasure is the. innocent pleasure which is wholesome and necessary in all ages ; nor whe'ther, though possibly innocent in itself, it may not sow the seeds of evil. Enjoyment and seriousness are both necessary, but one feels we ought, one and all," if we think about it at till, to dwell upon the vastly paramount importance of oarneMtness and of the seriousness of life. I thank you for the honor you have done me. in making me, as the wife of the Governor-General, the Commonwealth President of the Mothers' Union and the Patroness mf the Girls' Friendly Society."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9753, 26 May 1903, Page 3
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