ous training of a
girl, or responsible for the form of religion which is presented to her,
do not realize, or else they ignore the fact that she is in the hands of
a triad--body, mind and spirit. As a triad she develops if she be a
normal girl, as a triad she acts. Her character is made by these three
agencies working together. It is a fact, the significance of which none
of us fully realize, as yet, that a clean mind and a clean heart in an
unclean body is very rare. A quick, alert balanced mind and a pure,
heroic spirit in a starved and diseased body is also rare. A
well-nourished, well-cared-for body with all its functions doing their
work and a mental weakling is a rare combination.

Once we did not know that adenoids made children mentally deficient, nor
did we dream that teeth properly attended to, and a pair of glasses
could transform a girl from a sullen, morose disobedient child into an
interesting, happy and obedient one; but some of us have seen that
transformation and marveled at it. Once we believed that inherent moral
degeneracy sent a twelve-year-old girl to the courts. Now we are
beginning to see the relationship between a room with no windows and no
running water, a dirty alley or a wretched street and the moral
degeneracy. Once we shook our heads and said, "Well, they say there's
one black sheep in every family." Now we are beginning to see that the
black sheep may be made by the gratification of every physical desire
and every mental whim and the neglect of the spirit.

Churches, schools and individuals are beginning at last to _seriously_
consider the teaching of morals and religion and as they give themselves
to the task of laying down practical workable plans, suddenly as if it
were a new revelation comes the _fact_ that the individual is a triad
and she must be taught as such.

If homes were ideal it would be an easy task. If it were possible for
the majority of homes to approach the ideal it would seem an easier
task. But with poverty, ignorance, inefficiency and indifference
clutching at the very center of dynamic power, the task is one of the
greatest which men have as yet been asked to meet. If homes were ideal,
from the moment the little girl comes into the world, and even before
her coming, sensible, rational care would be taken of her body, not only
to make it beautiful but that it might do its work for her in healthful,
normal fashion and be a good servant throughout her life. Her mind w