Young Girls Should Dress Modestly, Says the Judge.
Two young girls, one fourteen and the other fifteen, were recently brought before Judge John A. Caldwell of the juvenile court in Cincinnati, charged with being saucy to officers when they had reprimanded them for their conduct. In addressing these girls the judge said: Young girls like you must not wear rats and bangs and Grecian bands around the hair. I propose to do all in my power to break up this kind of costuming by young girls—the kind of dressing that attracts the undue attention of the men. It is one of the greatest causes of juvenile delinquency, and I do not see what any mother is thinking about to allow her daughter to get herself up in any such fashion. I believe in modest attire for young girls. It hurts me every time I go along the street and see a young girl in short dresses wearing fancy open-work slippers, and thin, fancy stockings, with a slip of a dress, and a rat or a Grecian band in her hair, or with her hair bobbed down over her forehead. Judge Caldwell has very old-fashioned ideas on this subject, but it is a noticeable fact that it is the mothers who adhere to these old-fashioned ideas who are the most successful in training their daughters to become desirable and useful women.