Last week I shared thoughts by President Herbert Hoover on “What is a Boy.” When I read those thoughts to my seven-year-old grandson, he stated very emphatically, “Grandma, you still have a lot to learn yet about boys.” Lou Henry Hoover, wife of President Hoover, wrote an enlightening essay on “The Independent Girl.” This essay was perhaps written a century ago.
The Independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a bewitching little piece of humanity. Although this word may be taken in many different meanings, the one generally accepted in our day refers to the ambitious little personage who never asks for, and seldom receives advice of any kind. She will not receive aid from anyone, especially if she faintly imagined the offer to be prompted by a little feeling of sympathy for herself. She prefers fighting her own battles in this life, and sallies forth to each encounter with a martial spirit, which is quite startling. If there are a pair of admiring or doubting eyes watching her course, she delights to find many obstacles in her path, which she overcomes, with the skill of a learned engineer, or flanks with tact, like that have a great army strategist. The independent girl is a person for whose wrath only the most rash dare stand. And It must be confessed, with much fear and trembling. But sooner or later she is sure to meet a spirit equally as independent as her own. And then there is a clash of arms ending in mortal kombat, or they unite their forces and with combined strength to go forth to meet the world.
Does this sound like a girl and the 1990s? Please share your thoughts. I would love to hear from you.
Warm thoughts. Let us remember that the great human advances have not been brought about by mediocre men and women. They were brought by distinctly uncommon people with vital sparks of leadership. Herbert Hoover.
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Warm Thoughts from the Little Home on the Prairie Over a Cup of Tea by Luetta G. Werner
October 2 1997
Published by the Marion Record
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