succeeded.

Many a little ten-year-old girl has fine ideals of truth, unselfishness
and honor and they steady her through the teen years when temptations
press hard.

The twelve-year-old girl on the edge of the African jungle arranges her
hair in "mop" fashion because that headdress represents her ideal of
beauty. Rings in the nose, wonderful decorations of ankles and toes,
represent ideals of fashion and beauty. The girl in Japan, China or the
Philippines thinks she has made herself beautiful when she has arrayed
herself in accordance with her ideals. We often term her "awful" and
"ridiculous," shrinking even from her picture and she makes sarcastic
remarks, laughs heartily and never fails to express her curiosity
regarding us and our strange fancies and fashions.

It is our _ideals_ which act as a great commander-in-chief and we follow
in obedience to their commands. Our country needs today more than ever
before, the girl with high ideals, for it is when ideals are lowered
that character is weakened and sin and evil have their opportunity.

There are many things in the life and surroundings of the girls of today
that tend to lower and dim their ideals which did not enter at all into
the lives of the girls in our grandmother's and great grandmother's
time, and the girls of today must be stronger if they are able to resist
them. Our great-grandmothers lived in the home and did not enter into
business life. It is hard for the wide awake business girl of today to
imagine how that girl of long ago managed to enjoy life. But monotonous
as her life often was, she was spared many things. She never rode alone
in trains and trolleys nor learned to jostle and push through crowds.