"In those days, the cane and the whip and the chain were considered part of becoming a lovely young woman. Girls knew that they required such things, arid their parents did too. It was as much part of training as studies or posture or good grooming. It was not feared. It was wanted. Girls were thrilled to be able to attend such schools, and the punishments and the rings were accepted with pleasure."

Pamela and Donna listened with rapt attention to this rather exciting history lesson! They held hands,

"Then, of course, society became benevolent. Or so they thought Such schools were disbanded in the interest of 'decency'. They were hand-wringing fools of course. Those who made laws were not female, and they had no concept of what girls re- quired or desired. They knew not that punishment is the greatest blessing a girl can accept, for it molds her into a creature of pure delight.

"Even women's prisons were changed. The do- goaders decided that a well-applied whip to a woman's body was much too 'medieval'. So instead of an internment of a few weeks with some con- structive whipping each day, the social reformers decided that it was much more 'decent' and proper to throw a woman in jail for five years! When she gets out she's bitter, morose, older, and hasn't gained a thing towards being a beautiful woman.

The utter fools!

"Twenty-two years ago I was one of the first inmates here at Avondale. It had been a training school for young ladies for a century, before being closed by the 'reformers'. After a few years, it was reopened as a semi-reform institution for first-time offenders like yourselves. Very fortunately, the woman placed in charge, a very gracious and lovely older lady I might add, had attended Avondale when it was still a training school. She threw away the guidebooks and regulations, and ran the school as she saw fit in the only way she had learned. She was a blessing, for she proved over and over and over that young girls today respond to the same things as girls did in her day, and she turned out some of the most beautiful creatures possible.