What a Young Woman Ought to Know
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By Mary Wood-Allen 11 Apr, 2019
During a number of years it has been my privilege to be the confidante and counsellor of a large number of young women of various stations in life and in all parts of the United States. These girls have talked freely with me concerning their plans ... Read more
During a number of years it has been my privilege to be the confidante and counsellor of a large number of young women of various stations in life and in all parts of the United States. These girls have talked freely with me concerning their plans, aspirations, fears and personal problems. It has been a great revelation to me to note with what unanimity they ask certain questions concerning conduct—queries which perhaps might astonish the mothers of those same girls, as they, doubtless, take it for granted that their daughters intuitively understand these fundamental laws of propriety. The truth is that many girls who have been taught in the "ologies" of the schools, who have been trained in the conventionalities of society, have been left to pick up as they may their ideas upon personal conduct, and, coming face to face with puzzling problems, are at a loss, and perhaps are led into wrong ways of [16]thinking and questionable ways of doing because no one has foreseen their dilemma and warned them how to meet it. Less
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Born in Delta, Ohio, The United States October 19, 1841 Died: January 21, 1908 Mary Augusta Wood-Allen was an American doctor, social reformer, lecturer, and writer of books on health and self-imp...
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