A YOUNG GIRL'S POWER FOR GOOD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9967, 1 October 1910, Page 4

A YOUNG GIRL'S POWER FOR GOOD.

At no time has a woman greater opportunities for promoting good or evil than when, in her own sweet springtime, the latent germs of another's manhood are laid at her feet; when the rough clay of another's character is placed unresisting in her soft palms, to be moulded to her will. The boy is taught when yet in the schoolroom that in the strength of his own right arm and in the capabilities of his own brain lie the key to open the golden doors of future success in this world. It is just then when the character of the future man is being formed that the influence of the individual woman is the most powerful for effecting permanent good or evil. See how the boy hangs on every word that falls from the dear lips; how every note in the discord of his own life is turned to the harmony ,of hers: how jealous he is of every friend who has a greater share of her favours than himself. She is a; woman, he loves her; he knows nob why, he only feels that it is so.