0 TROUBLE WITH COMPOSITE 'PHOTO OF TWENTY Mrs. Humlston, the greatetst authority on the problem of mlastni? ttirls In this country, has gathered In thle remarkable aerlce of article! her experienced- in deal ing with thoueands of raee of young rlrle who had found home ronditiona Impoealble to bear and hud sought new fields of freedom and hapuineas. Uer description of the extent of the problem of miealng glrla waa a re'elation to moat people. In her preceding articles aha has informed her readera regarding the cen ters Bought by runaways and the fate of missing girls, fine gave also aome advice to parenta who diacover their daughters have disappeared. In the present article she places the blame for the majority of glrla leaving home. Article No. 6. BY MRS. GRACE HUMISTO.V (Copyright, 1021. Thompsnn Feature Serv ice. All rights reserved. HY do American girls leave homo by the tens of thou sands each year?" a dis tracted mother whose own Rlrl had run away asket me recently. I had to be frank. I had to tell her that tlie chief cause of missing; girls as Indi cated by my experience in thousands ?f cases is simply this: trouble with the family. "Well then, there must be some thing the matter with the American home," this mother replied. And there she spoke the truth. There Is something seriously the matter with the American home, and too frequently the blame lies with the parents. And In most cases I think It would be fairer to say tne blame lies with one parent, for it is the American father who Is much lore to blame than the American mother for the 100,000 girls missing: from American homes each year. If the misslnir grirls problem were decreasing; In Importance or even re maining the same In proportion to the normal Increase of population, we might not need to worry about it. But the number of girls who leave home Is Increasing with alarming rapidity. Do yoq realize that as many girls as boys run away each year? Dai you realize that when a boy runs away it does not necessarily mean much, but when a girl Is miss ing It is a perfectly certain Indica tion that there Is something wrong In her environment In most eases something wrong with the home. The Business Ctrl Frogrrrsaive. "Mothers and fathers, keep pace with your daughten particularly If she is In busineas would bo my mes sage to American parents who worry evai their girls' modern tendencies. Here we have In 1922 millions' of young girls working in offices, fac tories and stores, where 25 years ago you could count them only by the thousands. Parents must realize that girls can not be closely In touch every day with this world of business affairs, cannot be thrown In close contact with men of all sorts and conditions without being different more pro gressiva and less conventional, if you please than the girls of 25 year ago who led mora clustered lives. "Oh! This terrible business is spoiling my daughter' an American THE FAMILY IS CHIEF REASON WHY V - SEVEN DIFFERENT GIRLS FROM MRS. aiUMISTON'S DO'S AND DON'TS FOR DAUGHTERS. . - Don't, for any consideration, ever forbid your daughter to bring a certain girl or boy companion to your house. If sh'e Ji "attracted to this-person she will contrive to associate with him or'her outside anyway. How much better to bring this companion under the influ ence of your hoijje. If the companion Is cheap and worthless, your daughter will be more apt to see It when contrasted with the love and refinement of her own home. Do fill your house with your daughter's friendaygirls and boys. Let them have possession of the house on occasions. Give them free rein and lenhera be a fit frivolous. Make your daughter feel that the home belongs to her for her use. Then she will grow to love it. Dor.'t starve the girl for clothes. Remember . that many thou sands of girls have run away from home because they were not given some little fineries of drets which they yearned for and were forbidden to earn for themselves. Do put your daughter on an allowance from which she may buy her own clothes, and thus teach her the value of money and the rudiments of business trainrng. Don't pack your daughters two or three 'in a room in the third' floor back of the house or In the least sunny of your apartment rooms s Do arrange your housekeeping so that each daughter has a room for herself after she reaches the age of 12. I know pj nothing more importantthan for a girl growing into womanhood to have a place where she can go to think by herself. mother wept on my shoulder not long ago. She was a widow, just come from London, where she had been educat ing her daughter for the last 10 years The girl Has 18 and had grown up with very advantage that monejf and care could afford. Then suddenly the father had died. Mother and daugh ter returned to New York. And Ethel, tiring of the inactive life with a gov erness and tutors, longed to get out and do something. Her mother tried to satisfy this hunger with society. But Ethel was made of sterner stuff. "Much against my will IJet her go Into business," said the mother, "and do you know, Mrs. Humlston, it wasn't two weeks before that girl was different she had never used siang before. She had never bad any companions of whom I did not thor oughly approve. Our paths began to diverge. Finally there was one of her companions with bobbed hair and what I considered altogether too so phisticated an attitude toward life, whom I forbade my daughter to bring to our home. And soon after that I can't imagine whywe began to dis agree continually. And now Ethel has run away. If I could only find her arto"get her back." This mother found her daughter, but she did not get her back right then, for the simple reason that ah had been so stupidly careless in in juring the girl's feelings by her con tinual nagging and failure to under stand, that for a long while the girl waa embittered against her and rec onciliation for morths afterwards was Impossible. What did this mother do? Enraged by what she considered incorrigibility In the girl (although her daughter had never done any wrong), ehe had a policewoman go to the furnished room whioh her daughter had taken TITE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, Of ' ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. after running away, and straightway hale her before the women's court on the pretext that she was a vag rant. ; Now the facta of the matter were that the girl was still instinctively a lady In spite of a few unconven tional mannerism and affectations In dress. The sight of a police woman in her room instantly aroused a bit ter antagonism toward her mother. When she appeared before the judge and heard no complaint pressed. It only made her the more angry. "Why should I go back? I will never go back." she said. I have learned, however, from my long experience with girls that the time always comes sooner or later, even with the most embittered girls, when they reach that height of com mon sense which commands a broad view of human relations. WJthin a few weeks the flme came with Ethel. When she returned to her mother's arms I assembled them In a little disarmament conference ot their own at which they willingly agreed to live their lives, each as they considered It necessary to tlaelr happiness to share their lives aa much as possible, but not to Intrude upon each other's pleasures. The result of this has meant more freedom to the glfl, and, much to the mother's surprise, the girl has been happy ever since. This Is a typical case. I have run across thousands like It. The mother sitting at home, living a comparatively sheltered life, took entirely too seriously the few changes in her daughter wrought by her. sudden dip into a business ca reer. If she had only spent mote time In thinking of positive things to do to enlarge her daughter's hap piness instead of emphasizing the negative ' side "don't do this" and "don't do that" and if she bad mad TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GIRLS RUN AWAY FROM will i . : ihiu- 4- r-...... " ' close: RrvAt. to Broadway as GAT MOVIE CAPITAL OF an effort to keep pace with the de velopments of her daughter's Inter ests outside of her home, she prob ably never would have had. a runaway girl to worry about. ' The Case of Rachel. In too many cases, parenta seem to think that they exist for the purpose of exploiting their children, getting all the y can from them and giving very little in return. For example, there was the case if Rachel. 16, who ran away from her Chicago home because she saw no chance of gratifying her ambition to become "a writer of moving picture .plays. She was one of 11-children and worked from morning until night in her father's shop. Fop this work she received the munificent aum of 2 cents a day. Before going to work and when she came home, she helped around the house. She had no friends, no. time for social affairs, but this she did not mind. If sh4 had been able to have seen some way of realizing her ambitions she would have been content. , Ehe 'was not a foolish child, for she did not leave home until she had secured a situation as nursemaid to 3-year-old twins, at a very satisfac tory salary of S3 a week, and she would "Btlll be living there had not the words of a talk to girls on moth erhood touched her-heart and made her realize the suffering of her moth er because of her, ritsappearance. She voluntarily returned to her home and is now working contentedly there for the sum of fifty cents a week, and this is all her own. How easy' It was to satisfy th's girl's cravings. She was not unrea sonable; all she wanted was to see ahead of her the chance of realizing, her life's ambition. Aarrow-Mlndrd Parenta. Very often unhappy conditions are created by weli-meaning, but mis taken parents. For instance, there waa one father who as a young man had led a very wild life. When he married and settled down he made up his mind that his children should never have the chance to go wrong. So, when his little' girl waa growing Into womanhood, he allowed her no amusement whatsoever, took her sal ary away from her every weekan-i gave her the sum of ten cents a day for carfare and IS cents for lunch. What girl ot spirit will drudge out her days for an allowance such as this, with ,none of the aSornments which her love of pretty things crave and none of the pleasures and amuse ments which her social nature re quired? Is it any wonder that she ran away from- home? There are a great many parenta In America who refuse to allow their daughters adequate social life, who fail to realize that this is just as essential to the developing your soul as food is to the growth of the body. The young people who work for eight or ten hours very often 12 strenuous hours, must have some opportunity for relaxation. If they are deprived of thf , there comes a natural and in evitable rebound, which leads them to break away from all restraint and dash out into a ltfe which is all the more alluring because it Is unknown. And that is why so many mothers find a good-bye note pinned to the 'untouched pillow of their daughters' beds The American Father to Blame. I am sorry itr say that in the ma jority of cases of parental error it is the father rather than the mother JAXUAHY 15. 1922 M o 0 ' y- .. " ; ; ; T. tit:.-:... W: , ..;..: ti" -t.JiAf : ' i i fit 3 Copyrlgrht. Underwood & Underwood. a' magnet to missing girls is the THE WORLD HOLLYWOOD. who Is to blame. The father will for give things in a son which hj w,ill not forgive in his daughter. I recall the pathetic case of a New York girl who ran away from home and got into serious trouble In a nearby city. We finally found her on the mala street of this city flirting with a half a dozen sailors (It was In war time). There was nothing Inherently bad about this girl. She had simply been led astray. I shall never forget the sight of her as Bhe came into my office real golden hair touseled under her hat, set askew. Her big eyes were red for lack of sleep.. The paint and powder lay thick on her face. Her parenta were waiting in another room of my office and I was actually obliged to give her a thorough scrubbing and cleaning up before I could, dare pre sent her to her parents. Finally I broached the news to her parents asaslly as I could and later took the girl in to them. ' The mother was loving and forgiv ing, the father cold as Ice. He in sisted that I aend her to a reforma tory, or an asylum, anywhere to get rid of her. "How can I face my neighbors after this disgrace upon our family," he said, and there was In his eyes as he spoke the same Pharisaical light THE DAUNTLESS LYSANDER-W.. Godfrey (Continued From Page I ) that he could see a tiny pule beating in her throat. "Couldn't you tell me about it, Ly sander?" "Why, Amy, there's nothing to tell. It's a mistake. 1 can't understand how " He stopped. She turned to close the front door carefully, and waited a moment, lis tening with her heaa on one side. The house was quiet, save for a faint tap click of Miss Burd'a typewriter away off upstairs. Outside a mocking bird trilled a f(w notes In the great pep per tree. ' Amy held Lysander'a- eyes witr hers; she breathed quickly and her lips trembled. She put her hand to the breast of her gingham dress and drew out something that ran and glittered merrily through her shaking fingers like untouched fountain spray a diamond and platinum chain value J10.000 How long they stool maring at each other, with the thing like a mar velous serpent dangling between them, then Lysander wet his lips and a hojacse whisper issued: "Where'd you get It" "You know." her lips formed. . "No, no. No, I don't!" Hystria shook his cautious tones. "I don't know. I tell you." Not knowing why, he took her by the shoulders and held her so. "Tell me," he commanded. She did not try to release herself, profound mystification frowning on her young forehead. . "It was in your car. Didn't you put it there?" His amazement was so genuine, "Of course not.' How could It have got there?" ' She told him then, in eager, pant ing whispers how, after McKay had looked the car over and gone, she, moved by some inexplicable Impulse, had gone out and looked at It. too. She had felt terribly rpset and had sat down on a box that was, there in the shed to to think It ail over. And - V O 5 .. v.vMa.- 1 .. t WHAT SENDS GIRLS WRONG? Not all missing glrla go wrong, but it Is likely that a majority of them do. Those who do go wrong, It has been proved by a compre hensive sociological survey made in- 1921, have done so for the following reasons. In this investigation the history of 1000 cases were carefully examined: No. of Per cent Cause of downfall Cases, of Total. Influenced by white slavers 256 26.6 Trouble at home 210 21.0 Bad companions and bad amusements (including movies emphasizing sex appeal) 187 1S.7 Personal reasons (desertion, jilted affections, love of finery, etc ) ". . . . 177 17.7 ' Economic pressure (lack of work, need of money for necessities) 170 17.0 which I have seen in a great many they bob thair hair, wear short kirts fathers' eyes who have failed to un- dance crazy dances and look a little derstand that a girl led astray or more sophlsticataed than girls i ! the even gone astray is entitled to at last two generations looke.i. does not least as much understanding and for- Indicate with absolute certainty an giveness as a wayward son. many of our public figures have nn- The upshot of this particular case nounced In gold print that the was that, although I finally persuad- younger generation is on the road to ed the father to take her home, he ruin. twitted her and rebuked her so often Let's humor them a little. To my for what she had done In the past mjnij it S simply the result of an that she simply could not stand It and overdeveloped craze for Imitation. We ran away agalnv are getting to be aa slavish in follow- The Way to Stop It All. ing the mode of Planners and actions Is there no way we can stop these f professional leaders as girls nave girls from running away? Must our become slavish in following the fash army of 100.000 missing glrla annu- 'n dictates of Paris modistes In ally Increase r.ext year and the year their clothes. after that? Let's give them happiness in their I know of tnly orfe way to solve homes companionship with wortli this mystery of missing girls and that while people. Then they will not seek is to trofct them more humanely, more i bad companions. For if there are no intelligently In our American homes lonely girls, 1 can tell you that there than we now are doing. Just because will be fewer missing girls. sitting there, just at the right angle maybe, she saw something hanging from underneath the car someway, and she had crawled tinder and pulled it out and and it was this. All dirty, but she had washed it and and that's all. How it came there no one would ever exactly know, since Henrietta was dumb. All that Lysandcr could t!lnk of was that the chain had be come unfastened and fallen on one of Henrietta's' wheels, and been thrown up in some way when it turned, to lodge on some little projection of her ancient frame. He got this out fever ishly to Amy. "You believe me. Amy, don't you? You know I didn't know anything about It. You believe me, don't you?" "1 do believe you. LysandA" -Solemnly his quivering yoilng lips touched her forehead. Happy man. who when all the world doubta has one left whose faith is untouched. But now! This costly linked mis chief must be returned, and Its re turn could be taken only by those blind ones as a confession of guilt. "I'll go with you, Lysander," Amy decided at last. "We'll Just tell them how It was. and they'll have to be lieve us!" "I couldn't let you do that. I couldn't let you be mixed in it." "I'm sure they'd believe me, and It would help straighten it out better." "No," Lysandec shook his head. "But It's mighty sweet of you. Be sides, your mother wouldn't let you. "That's a good Idea," said Miss Amy. "We'll just tell her all about it and take her with us!" And they did. "Well," said Mr. Willard after it all, and his eyea had softened a good deal when they met Amy's spirited yet pleading ones," "it's a queer 111 In if, but I guess I'll have to be lieve you. Miss Amy. And to make it right, I'm going to ask this young man's pardon, and urge him always touEtlfy your fine faith in him." So HOME EACH YEAR ........ . after all he wasn't such a bad old king. And then. Just to finish it off. while the three of them waited for an ele vator, the mother woman and the pretty, eager young girl, and the solemn, boyleh fellow, there emerged from the elevator the princess her self! Miss Thyllis, all dolled up like a million dollars and leaving behind her an atmosphere of much self-satisfaction and the fragrance of an ex pensive perfume. Lysander felt a light touch Amy had slipped her strong brown little hand through his arm. Darling, staunch little al Amy. What if the dream didn't come true? Perhaps life Is holding for you Just around the corner the sweeter gift that is for you. Lysander swallowed hard. "You know, he said In a voice he tried to make very casual, "1 believe I'll go In with Alfred Tilbury after all. Seems a nice fel!ow. and I think I'd like it better than real estate." (Copyr'ght. 1922. by Winona Godfrey.) ;arcla's Method. Mesdamcs Viardoi-Garria mu Mali bran, the wonderful daughters of Manuel Garcia, who waa nerhnps the greatest vocal teacher of si! time literally "learned In suffering what they taught In song " The discipline of the Garcia home was extremely severe. It was salrt that Garcia used to beat his daugh ters till they screamed. The neighbors, however, did not oonfuse method 1th madness, and on such occasions they quaintly said: "H Is only Monsieur Uarola teaching his girls to sing." S.-lrtittfic Manacsntrat Mhnnn. Kdlnburgh Scotsman "Dicky." said, h's mother, "when you divided those five caramels with your sister, did you give ner three?" , "No, ma. I thought they wouldn't come out even, so I ate one "fore I began to divide."