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White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 373, 18 July 1926, Page 13

If womanhood is to gain and to retain its rightful place in the world, each girl must understand herself and uphold her own value. The value that each girl sets upon herself as a woman is the value that others will accord to her in their thoughts of her and dealings with her. She must never think of herself as a mere machine, whose highest ambition is to do some hit of man's work. Still less must she think of herself in her leisure time as the mere plaything of any man she can pick up who may give her a good time for the moment. If she accepts the position of a cheap toy she can expect no other than its fate. We all know the life story of a cheap toy. It is easily come by, lightly played with for an hour or so, then tired of and thrown aside, often “done for” as well as “done with.” Many a woman has shared that fate because she thought cheaply of herself, allowed others to treat her cheaply, and never realised her own 'alue until it was too late, until her treasure was wasted, broken, lost, her womanhood degraded, the man she might have helped to make more manly degraded also, and he, and probably other men, taught by her to think cheaply of all women, thereby making their lives more difficult. Such are some of the tragic wastes °f womanhood.