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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1919)
2 TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 16, 191D.- ; ' :- ' -- ' '- .. , I Joacphinc Krem the New They BT HELEN HOFFMAN. (( MUSEMENTS must have a Z sporty touch to them to in terest the girls today." This IS one of the principal reasons Why girls leave home, according to Miss Josephine Kremser, the how Cele brated female Sherlock Holmes, Who haS added to her historic war record of tracking down slackers that of ap prehending runaway girls. One has only to meet the young "Investigator," as she calls herself, to realize that her remarkable record With the war department Is not going to languish, now that the necessity for locating draft dodgers no longer exists. Miss Kremser, petite, extremely good looking and only 23, has set a new pace for women In unusual oc cupations. No one, easting a quick glance at her work for the govern ment the past few years, can deny that Miss Kremser easily holds the title of America's first and greatest Eherlock Holmes of her sex. For the New Tork draft board Miss Kremser ran down 5000 slackers dur lng the months that this country was at war with Germany. Now she has transferred her abilities to hunting musing girls. Trained ! Hunting; Slackers. This marvelous yauhg woman. Who by tact, coupled with Sound business logic, has led big six-foot slacken and deserters to Governor's island without exhibiting more concern than most young women would show In ordering a glass of soda, has just attracted attention by her extraor dlnary detective Instincts In return ing home girls Whom their families bad given up as hopelessly lost. Miss Kremser has been abundantly kelped trt her work by the knbwledge of French, Italian, Epanlsh, Oerman, Like to Wear Clothes They Can't Afford." Yiddish ahd Portuguese, and whafs more she knows human nature. Elnce a child she has sung and danced through Europe and South America. Miss Kremser knows human nature and all its little tricks. Her large and luminous blue-gray eyes are soft and kindly. They apparently see very little, and yet in her work they Seem to have missed nothiiig. In running down missing girls she employs both theory and intuition. Like Sherlock Holmes, she follows the slightest clew and takes advantage of the simplest Information. Aa a member of the woman's police resereS Of New Tork city Miss Kremser has gained wide recognition from the police for her wcrk. 'Using plain common sense and go ing about one's work systematically is the only Way to succeed," said Miss Kremser, in speaking of her WOrk. "There Is nO great mystery at tached to it. People are Just plain humans. With all the little frailties with which most of us ard endowed in some degree. fclrls Hard to Catch. "Slackers were not so difficult as the girls. They are more difficult to locate. They hide their tracks better. Almost always a girl who runs away will take ahothef girl into her cohfU dence. and they will correspond. Hold- ing up the mail of the girl of a recent case I had, which seemed difficult at best. I located her In three days." Miss Kremser IS Inclined to deal lightly With the offending girls, who are the cause of so much anguish at home. ' "Parents are a good deal to blame," said the young philosopher. "What we need today is 10th century mothers and old-fashioned fathers," she said. "We need mothers whs are up-to' date, who ar Willing to bs coinpan- Sigh Blood pressure, SAYS THIS AUTHORITY, MAKES GIRLS WANDER. Dr. Max Baff, Clark college psychologist, says so, aftef using a sphygmomanometer ip two years of experiments. He says: "I have found that since Eve ate the apple there has been a growing instinct ignong the fair sex to run away, if con ventions, fear of publicity and such things did not deter- the women they would roam more than the men. - There is some thing in the blood of the fe- ' tnale that makes her restless, and some girls can no more help running away than they can help getting married when the right man comes along." Ions of their daughters, who Will take an Interest In their amusements, who will interest themselves lft affairs of the World, ahd with this knowledge Imparted to their daughters will be the means of saving them from hu miliation ahd misery. - "We need old-fashioned fathers, men who Were the cehter of the home circle, men who respected onf moth' ers, and so invited respect from the children. Glrla Want Karltrmeat." "When father takes his stenogra pher lor a a. autsmobUs ride, and New York's Woman Sherlock Holmes, Who Has Traced Many. the "Lost," Frivolity and False Ideals Are Responsi ble for Much Ruin, and That Mothers Are Too Often Re They Pick Up Chance Acquaintances. The Like to Dance in Questionable Places. , spends his evening at his club, neg lecting his wife, th children Ot tllat family soon sense the situation. No ideals are held up to the children, and they look outside the home too, fof their amusement. "With my experience and my work t shouldn't think of leaving home In the evehlng ahd a, good deal of my work takes me but evenings with out telling my mother lust whera 1 Was going, ahd about what time 1 might be expected to return. But young girli toaay, as young as 14. girls of good homes, too, go gayly out artef th evenM meal. With nO thought bf notifying their parents where they are going. "GlrlS want excltemeht, larld movies, motof rides, cabarets, and at these places and strolling about the streets evenings they pick up chance acquaintances. They Ilk to dance in questionable place. They like to wear clothes they can't afford. Well, what can one fcxpeott "I knbw heap f youhg women to day who dine ahd motor and go to amusements With married men. They know these men are. married, but they give that no thought as long as they are beih entertained. "Such action on th part of ye-ung Women ten ytars ago Would have 14 to their Social ostracism In the fielgh borhood. "Today. tibtHlBlt 18 thought of tt Even married people, who make pre tense at respectability, accept Such people fo theif friends. It ts a cas of moriey all the Way through. Wine along and help Speftd.' 18 the lnvita tion many married men fling out ts their friends, and their friends thin! they are generous and kind-hearted. The girls whom t have returned home were largely girls whs had homes te run aWay from. The average girl who seeks ' employment tn th Wg cities Says That know pretty well What she ts doing end what kh wants. Earning Her living leaves email room for fanciful romancing. She knows life. "It Is the siny little girls. th over Indulged girls, the undisciplined girls who find their homes tiresome and Who seek amusement outside that come to grief. We in this country criticise aid world morals," mused the young In' vestigator. "The heur has struck when we should turn aft eye to our own. It Is up to our women to set a new high standard of morals 1A this country. I speak particularly of Our large cities. Of course, people living cities are shoved Into tiny apart ment rooms like letters into pigeon holes. They lead cramped lives. If they laugh or play the graphophoha after 10 o'clock, somebody across the court calls out to them to stop, as they are spoiling their sleep. The theaters, cabarets and movies offer 4 mors alluring amusement center than the home, so ths homes are trans ferred to those places. We are bga-otn Intng a homeless, cabaret, hotel ha tion. "Golnar" With I'tkitira Tona Heau "Here," said th young Investigator, waving her pretty, shapely hands about the two tunny, well furnished Sitting room ot her little hom. which she shares wlth her mother, "I have Often given parties, and offered to so tartain young peopla In the neighbor hood, but exert myself a best I can, t lack ths ability to cOps with the tnorS exciting allurements of public entertaining and I find that youhg people do not care for house parties. "It Is much smarter to -go- with young men that their mothers do hot know IS the Idea that ruhs uppermost lit many young gills" heads. Scores of. Wt. M I - IV ? Tmm tZt V riVVrV.'A'vl- o V;-VaV.'i.ui , Mi M "Amusements Must Have Sporty Tonch to Them to Interest the Girls e-f Today. Girls Want Excitement, Motor Rides, Cabarets." mothers whose daughters I have found and returned to them, admitted that they did not know the hames of cer tain young; men the Rlrla went with; In fact, knew nothing about them. "Many girls run away from good homes In small towns and with good Intentions expect to make their way in New Tork, because home seemed dulL Sometimes after the struggle gets to be too hard they give up and gs home, but others succumb to the RUGBY AS A RECREATION FOR FAIRER SEX IS LAUDED Girl Captain of English Team Declares Even Prude Cannot Object to Women Playing This Gam in Public. E' VEN a prude. In the light of the altered order of things, cannot seriously object to a woman playing association football In public In the opinion -of the girl captain ol an Engltshwoman'a football team. The Rugby code may be a little too strenuous, she thinks, but under the laws which govern the sister game the fair sex can reap many advan tages. "In the first place," says the girl captain, ''football Is a healthy sport for the robust woman to follow, It la played in the open air. All th Important muscles are brought into us. Keenness of eye and quickness of deeision are essential. The game teachea women to control temper. It Stimulates unselfishness and foster the true sporting spirit. It engender pluck, staying power, determination and a resolute desire to conquer ob stacles. Flayed seriously, it eausea a woman to use her brain aa well aa her muscle. "The enormous .number of people who took a delight in Seeing muni tionettes, engaged On Strenuous war Work' all the week match their skill against esch other on the football field oft Saturday afternoons proves conclusively that there is great In terest In feminine football from 1 spectacular point of view. It is true that the munition Work era have now scattered, but there ar hundreds of big business establish tnehts In the country where women are engaged In toll that necessitates physical strength which could turri out 11 sturdy specimens of femnln humanity capable of giving a. very Interesting display bf leather chas ing. "With 4 little enterprise, matches could be arranged, grounds secured. Competitions and even a league formed. "One small objection to women tak Ihg up football Seriously Is that the costume UBually Worn is not quite So becoming as it might be. But surely that Is a thing which feminine lu aenultr could easily remedy. "As a munition girl who has played the gam for two seasons vigorously Without receiving a scratch and cap talned a very successful team ot temptations which invite them at every hand, and even when taken back home, some of them reminded me that they didn't intend to remain. "In such cases one can only look to the mother, and understand that the girl's bringing up was not such as to instil In her a healthy respect and love tor the home and parents. Moth era must be mora alert to the life of today if they wish to lead happy lives with their children." women war workers, I have made these few llttl suggestion Ih tn hope that other women will combine to see If something Cannot be don to popularise a sport In Which ths gentler sex can shine conspicuously. Gwendolyn. Los Angeles Duck. Answer Master's Whistla. Otaarkleaa Moaeovy Wags Tall Ap preciatively Wheat Fed Aagle Woraaa. LOS ANGELES, Cal. Gwendolyn, a duck, answers her master's whis tle as promptly and wags bar tail as appreciatively as any dog. Her master, Stephen J. Moloney, a writer of Los Angeles, declares ducks are greatly misunderstood and unap preciated birds and that they have much more intelligence than they are given credit for. Gwendolyn seems to prove It. She is a quackless Muscovy, dark gray In color, with seme wonderfully beautiful royal purple feathers in wings and tail. Bhe Is not yet six months eld, est she seems much older because of her accomplishments," says Moloney. He taught her to answer to his whistle. He took his hoe and Icosened the earth in her pen so the angle worms beneath were visible. He whis tled while he dug. Soon the sound of the hoe and the whistling meant much to Gwendolyn. And coon after she would respond to the whistling alone. She taught herself to wag her tall! and she does it after eating each an gleworm given her. Gwendolyn, despite her cleverness, never has laid an eBg-ehe leaves that to her less educated sisters. Radicalism Manifest in Belgium. BRl'SSELS. Th tendency toward radicalism proposed In national legis lation Is making itself manifest here as well as in England. It Is an nounced that the question of the na tionalisation of mines will eoon he brought tip In the chahiber of depu ties by the minister et lndubtry and labor.
