mrs taft had strong views on many subjects and she attempted to impart these views to her charges.
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there are people who rule the world.
they have ruled it for thousands of years, at least.
they are mostly iinvisible.
not always, but mostly.
they take more of their share of the world’s goods (this is the most important point).
they create tribes and nations and religions to keep people divided against each other.
so that people will not unite against them, the rulers.
despite their power, these people are stupid.
and weak.
they are bullies.
and like all bullies, they are cowards.
it should be easy to rise up and defeat them.
somehow, it has never happened - yet
some day a prophet will appear.
preferably female.
mrs taft always expressed these sentiments to the girls as a group.
she never took a particular girl “under her wing” and she made an effort to treat them all equally and give them the same amount of attention.
as she felt that to do otherwise would encourage jealousy and dissension among them.
most of mrs taft’s opinion rolled easily off the girls’ young minds.
as they were more interested in growing up getting out of the home a and finding jobs and/or husbands.
still, mrs taft felt more hopeful about some girls taking her precepts to heart than others.
she especially liked gardenia’s feisty attitude and thought she showed promise.
but it was actually elsa, the quietest one, who most took her proclamations to heart.
mrs taft did not teach the girls reading and writing and arithmetic and such.
they had to enroll in the local elementary school.
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