THE GIRL AND HER RELIGION
BY MARGARET SLATTERY
THE PILGRIM PRESS
BOSTON CHICAGO
COPYRIGHT, 1913
BY LUTHER H. CARY
Fifth Printing
THE PILGRIM PRESS
BOSTON
WHILE PACKING HER TRUNK SHE DREAMED OF COLLEGEFOREWORD
TO THOSE WHO READ THIS BOOK
It is not a technical book, it does not attempt philosophy. It does notcontain the solution of all girl problems. It is not a great book, it issimple and concrete. It is a record of some things about which the girlsI have known have compelled me to think. I have but one request to makeof those who read it—that they also think—not of the book, not ofthe author, but of the girls—for action is born of thought.
THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS
THE GIRL | |
| I | THE RIGHTS OF A GIRL |
| II | THE HANDICAPPED GIRL |
| III | THE PRIVILEGED GIRL |
| IV | THE GIRL WHO IS EASILY LED |
| V | THE GIRL WHO IS MISUNDERSTOOD |
| VI | THE INDIFFERENT GIRL |
| VII | THE GIRL WHO WORSHIPS THE TWIN IDOLS |
| VIII | THE GIRL WHO DRIFTS |
| IX | THE GIRL WITH HIGH IDEALS |
| X | THE AVERAGE GIRL |
HER RELIGION | |
| XI | THE GIRL AND THE UNIVERSE |
| XII | IN THE HANDS OF A TRIAD |
| XIII | THOU SHALT NOT |
| XIV | THOU SHALT |
| XV | A MATTER OF CULTIVATION |
| XVI | A PLEA AND A PROMISE |
| XVII | A PERSON NOT A FACT |
| XVIII | THE GLORY OF THE CLIMAX |
PART I
The Girl
I
THE RIGHTS OF A GIRL
She has certain inalienable rights, regardless of race, color or socialstate. When it has thought about her at all, society in general hassupposed, until recently, that in a free country, a glorious land ofopportunity, the girl has her rights—the right to work, the right toplay, the right to secure an education and to enter the professions, theright to marry or to refuse, the right in short to do as she shallchoose. And in a sense and t