Raise Girls Who Can Make Baby Dresses and Biscuits, Boys Not Adverse to Work, Says L.E. Huggins, Oct. 18, 1921

The Girl and the Boy

But while we are talking about the mistake of rearing girls in idleness, we must not forget the tragedy of allowing boys to grow into manhood without being inducted into ancient and honorable order of Work. For, if it is a mistake to infest society with a race of women who know more about high society than they know about making baby dresses and biscuits, it is a tragedy to turn loose upon the country a breed of boys who are averse to work. The fact that the country is drunk on pleasure seeking is directly traceable to homes where the youth is being brought up in idleness.

By L.E. Huggins, originally printed in the Monroe Journal, as reprinted on the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Oct. 18, 1921