When men's consciences have been awakened and they find the home
incapable or inert, they have turned the responsibility over to the
public school and the church. Of late civic forces have given their aid.
Those directly interested in the religious training of the girl are
coming to agree that these three agencies are needed and that they must
work _together_ if the whole girl is to be helped.
_Some one_ must teach a girl the things about herself that she ought to
know. That some one is her mother. No one else can do it with the same
power. Neither church nor school can perform well the delicate task of
revealing life's secrets, and blundering is deadly. But church and
school and civic forces together can help the mother, can give her a
proper conception of her duty, give her the words to say, perhaps. The
school can teach morals and keep its own moral standards high; the
church can awaken the spiritual life of a girl and nurture it, that
knowledge and high ideals may work together to fortify and strengthen
her. The civic forces can see to it that the girl has the opportunity
for pure physical enjoyment, for mental stimulation and moral uplift.
What civic forces have been able to do through tuberculosis exhibitions
and child welfare exhibits, by showing parents the truth regarding the
importance of the physical care of their girls, furnishes encouragement
to go further.
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