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Show WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME Director of Carnegie Intltute Holds Heredity to Be Wholly Responsible . '" , Why girls leave homo has now been determined by science it Is tho fault of man of course but not In tho way you think. ' Dr. Charles n. Davenport, director direc-tor of tho Carneglo Institution's station sta-tion for the experimental study of evolution, at Cold Springs Hnrbor, Long Island, has tackled the great problem, which In tho past has been, left to scientists of tho Laura Jean I Llbbey class. Heredity As the Cause Dr. Davenport knows that heredity heredi-ty Is tho causo of most of tho thlngi you do, so ho started by getting the pedigrees of 100 families ln whlcn thoro wero numerous wandorers, nomads, no-mads, vagrants and hoboes. Somo of thoso wnnderera wero wo( men, hut tho greatest part of them, wero men. Then ho looked around to seo how much wanderlust Micro s among the other animals. It occurred to him that mony birds mlgrato twlco a yoar and (hat man's poor relations, the great npes.who arc said to havo thp snmo basal Instincts as man hardly over sleep twice In tho samo place. Uolng n father, ho was furthermore reminded that children frequently run away. When a two year old i-tarts off down tho road, It evidently evident-ly Isn't becauso ho has been reading yellow back novolg or travel advertisements. adver-tisements. "It must bo an inherited Instinct," said Dr. Davenport. "It mu3t be a fundamental Instinct which la com- raon to man and tho lower nnimnls alike." Refers to Statistics If it Is an instinct, he says, it ought to bo most notfccablo nt tho ago jif adolescence, becauso nil tho instincts aro most highly developed at that' age. So ho Investigated tho statistics .of runaways and found ns he expected, that moro persons run away at tho ago of adolcsccnco than nt any other ago. So ho felt that ho had a good case. Tho lovo of roaming, ho thinks, is an Inherited Instinct in man, which In suppressed In most pcoplo by tho necessities of clvlllr.ed Hfo, but It breaks out In thoso who lack an Inhibiting In-hibiting factor and so become hobooi or globo trotters, or hunters or gyp-oies. gyp-oies. Tho Instinct is much lrsa controlled controll-ed In America ho points out than it ta In somo other countries, such ns Franco and China, becnuso tho pnm ent Americans aro all tho descendants descend-ants ot emigrants, that Is, of pcoplo In whom tho Instinct was not aup pressed. Nomadism as ho calls tho instinct, appears to bo widespread: "Tho American Is nomadic In religion, re-ligion, in Ideas, In moralH, and ho leaves his faith and opinions with ns much Indlfforenco as ho leaves the Iioubo in which ho lives." |
