The world is full of Nellies, but where one woman flees too strict
and monotonous a home, to make a Nellie out of herself, ten are taken out
and deliberately moulded, drilled and fashioned into Nellies by their own
parents. I have lain awake at nights figuring this, Daddy; some woman is
urging me every day to join different movements, and I've been forced to
study this out. I know the cause of the present unrest among women."
"And it is--?" suggested Mr. Winton.
"It is the rebound from the pioneer lives of our grandmothers! They and
their mothers were at one extreme; we are at the widest sweep of the
other. They were forced to enter the forest and in most cases defend
themselves from savages and animals; to work without tools, to live with
few comforts. In their determination to save their children from
hardships, they lost sense, ballast and reason. They have saved them to
such an extent they have _lost_ them. By the very method of their rearing,
they have robbed their children of love for, and interest in, home life,
and with their own hands sent them to cafes and dance halls, when they
should be at their homes training their children for the fashioning of
future homes.
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