1939: (Girls’ Artistic Energy Needing Cultivation: From Comhaire-Sylvain’s Observations Girls’ Artistic Energy Needed to Be Cultivated in Adult-Supervised So…

1939: (Girls’ Artistic Energy Needing Cultivation: From Comhaire-Sylvain’s Observations Girls’ Artistic Energy Needed to Be Cultivated in Adult-Supervised Social Gatherings Where Young People Saw Theatrical Productions Art Exhibits and Educational Films, She Further Instructing Her LFAS Sisters and Readership That They the Scholastically Educated Women of the Nation Must Teach the Less-Educated Class and “Show Them What Constitutes Beauty”): From Comhaire-Sylvain’s observations, girls’ artistic energy needed to be cultivated in adult-supervised social gatherings where young people saw theatrical productions, art exhibits, and educational films. She further instructed her LFAS sisters and readership that they, the scholastically educated women of the nation, must teach the less-educated class and show them what constitutes beauty. The directive positioned the LFAS as aesthetic arbiters whose scholastic education gave them authority over the definition of beauty itself, a claim that sat uncomfortably alongside Comhaire-Sylvain’s own earlier recognition that rural women’s ways of knowing were valid on their own terms.