This article talks about a sermon on how mothers nowadays are too``silly, frivilous and lightheaded'' and occupied by picture shows to properly parent their daughters.
Mothers Frivolous.
At shows instead of caring for children, says Dr. Shanley
Mothers who allow their daughters of sixteen to eighteen years of age to be out of the home attending socials and dances several nights each week were strongly criticised by the Rev. Walter J. Shanley, LL. D., rector of St. Peter's church, during a sermon on the subject, ``Temptation, '' which Dr. Shanley preached at the masses in St. Peter's yesterday morning.
Dr. Shanley spoke of the numerous temptations young girls are exposed to when allowed to be out of the house too frequently at night and he said that the old time restrain of parents over their children is rapidly disappearing because parents do not exercise their proper and rightful authority over their children.
``But the mothers can't reprove their daughters, '' said Dr. Shanley, ``for many mothers nowadays are just as silly, frivilous and lightheaded as their daughters and instead of staying home at night with their children you will find many mothers down at the motion picture shows.''
Dr. Shanley's entire sermon was a forciful presentation of the many dangers and temptations to sin that beset a person throughout life. He deprecated the decay in family life, which, he said, is shown in the many divorce cases among members of some of the most prominent families in the country socially speaking, and said that many of the temptations to which young girls are subjected are due to the lack of restraint on the part of parents.
Mothers Frivolous.
“Mothers Frivolous. At Shows Instead of Caring for Children, Says Dr. Shanley.” In: Danbury News-Times (Mar. 13, 1916).