WAYWARDNESS
by Lady Veronica Lee D'Arielle
(this article marks the beginning of the articles by Lady D'Arielle)

For centuries, my people, the French have been known for graceful design and gracious manners. However, we have also been plagued with things like "the French disease": trollopiness, "French leave" : haughtiness and "Do not be so French" : general dislikeablilty. This divergence of character has made it hard to like us and hard for us to accept ohter people as persons.

The root of this is the characteristic of being self-absorbed, the unwillingndss to be guided by the world as it is and the tendency to act like we are the only things in it. It is even apparent in the Canadian "side of the family". I guess being the arbiters or what is gracious in manner, fine of fashion and the proper in design has gone to our heads and made us an easily-disliked people

This is not good, It seems one thing that we are chiefly known for is trollopiness because of our sensuous way of being. Or love of the delicate and feminine suggests a tendency to spread the legs that, while true in some cases, is no more true than for most other peoples. So many French families struggle with keeping their girls from becoming trollopy that it seems to be a way of life with us.

This last is the source of the idea of Waywardness. As a member of the D'Arielle Ladies Society for the Recovery of Wayward Girls, I have seen first hand the depradations of this dissolute way of life. What I have discovered is that the beginning signs of this can be identified in little girls as early as age 4 or 5. It is in this period that the little girl is becoming a little girl. having identified these manifestations, I set about creating a set of things to head off or counteract these things before they take root in the heart of the little girl.

These manifestations of Waywardness as they appear in little girls are in order of seriousness.

Whininess: The manifastation of babyishness is refusal to grow up and look outside to the world. It is an unpleasant passivity and yet an agressive demand to have one's wants met by others.

Overacrtivness: This is the unwillingness to accept the knod of feminine quietness that ought be part and parcel of a girl's attractiveness and will grow into the boisterous elan vitale of the peasantish harlot.

Disobedience: This is self-evident as the unwillingness to submit to, first the mother, then those who ought control certain aspects of one's life by virtue of their special knowledge, thinking the one's own will ought be omnipotent, with neither limits nor wisdom.

Fowardness: The willful insertion of oneself into situations that one should not be so predominant in and making a nuisance of oneself in public situations

Gossipiness: Speaking in a demeaning and overly self-justifying or judgemental way of others to feather ones own social nest at the expense of others. First by demeaning them and making them less worthy in the eyes of others, Second by passing ourselves off as the purveyers of knowledge and truth and making ourselves seem indispensible

Trollopiness: Seeking our own pleasures of the body in such a way as to ignore what that is for. and by being providers of such services, making ourselves desireable and irreplaceable, with the aim of feathering our nests and gaining pleasure

being Proud: This is not the justified pride of the accomplished or well-thought-of person but of the self-indulgent and arrogant, yet miserable and fearfully inadequate woman

These manifestations must be rooted out at the first signs in little girls. To see to this, I have set about creating and setting into motion a set of precepts that are designed to counter these signs of self-absorbtion.

Education: Learing the things she needs to know
Occupation: Being kept busy in constructive ways
Appearance: Being made to look and act to create a ladylike image
Dress: Having clothes and accessories that show the girl to be a proper lady
Crying: This most femininie mode of expression is the antithesis of pride and its self-effacing nature makes it the perfect antidote to waywardness.
Discipline, Humiliation and Chastizement: Doing those umpleasant things to a girl to make her understand thet she is the subject of others.
Later I was impressed by the affects or Rubber as a means to makeing the miscreant little girl have feelings that are not of her own choice but are nonetheless part of her little girl person

These are the precepts of the D'Arielle way of raising a little girl. Their overall effect and goal is simple. Babyfication: Whether it is the short skirts or even being dressed forcibly by one of the ladies, the crying and now, even the rubber and diapers, the sum total makes the girl feel like a baby, Can there be a more helpless state of being? And for the person who ought to have outgrown that, can there be a better way to strip her of her dignity? And how can a person so humiliated be proud. To have the effrontary to practice the other parts of wayardness upon others, one must be above all, proud. and when one is about to wet a diaper or have her senses distracted by the constant massaging and feeling imposed by rubber, how can one be proud? What are the only feeling possible to one as she is laid on a changing rubber sheet, her skirts lifted to show those panties and they are pulled down and between her legs done with as the lady pleases? Now imagine this being done in the full view of others, It is fortunate that, as babies, we had no cognizance of what was going on around us and that as we go along through time, we lose all memories of this most undignified period in our lives. A curse on those who take and save pictures of us in that period and show them to others.

(The following articles explain each of the precepts of the program of preventing waywardness).