Excerpt: ...and help her to escape from it. Environment fixes largely the companions of the girl, and her place in the social scale predetermines to some extent how she shall play. If she is in a home where the family is closely related to the church in all departments of its active work and life, the church becomes her natural social center. Its entertainments, suppers, young people's socials, etc., furnish the means for her amusement and the place where she may form friendships. If she is a working girl boarding in a ...
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Excerpt: ...and help her to escape from it. Environment fixes largely the companions of the girl, and her place in the social scale predetermines to some extent how she shall play. If she is in a home where the family is closely related to the church in all departments of its active work and life, the church becomes her natural social center. Its entertainments, suppers, young people's socials, etc., furnish the means for her amusement and the place where she may form friendships. If she is a working girl boarding in a strange city or living in a home in no way connected with the church, unless the Y. W. C. A. through the gymnasium or 64 other classes reaches her, where shall she find her social center where she may enjoy the society of other young people, form friendships and have a good time? In summer the public parks answer that question. In winter, the skating rink, "the dancing party," the moving picture show. If the girl lives in a happy home surrounded by wealth, together with culture and refinement, her social life will be guided and guarded during her teens and she will be helped to have a good time. If she be that happiest of all girls, the one whose own home is the social center, where music, games and fun abound, and where friends are always welcome, she is safe. Such homes might solve the whole problem, but there are not enough. When the teacher looks seriously at the social side of her girls in their teens and realizes the craving of the whole nature for companionship, laughter and fun, she finds it hard to say "Don't" even to the things of which she does not personally approve, because she must meet the question clear and frank, "What can I do then?" That question has been answered, so far as the church is concerned, only here and there. Some splendid and successful attempts have been made that give us hope for the future. Most Sunday-school teachers of girls in their teens have awakened 65 recently to the fact that unless the...
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First edition. 127pp. A view from the early 20th Century by a writer for the 'Sunday School Times'. Very good; minor wear to corners of cover and top of backstrip. Inscription on front end paper. (loc 802)
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