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Show A Father's Strictness Among the Girls' Reasons for Running Away By MARY E. HAMILTON, in "The Policewoman." Too many times a father's strictness figures prominently among the girls' reasons for running away. A typical tragic case is one in which the father takes every cent his daughter earns, allowing her no spending money except ten cents for carfare each day and perhaps fifteen cents for lunch. When she returns home from work, she is relegated to the kitchen ; a moving-picture show would completely disrupt her morals and lower her standard of working efficiency. Young people, especially young men, are entirely out of the question. Finally rebelling against such ' treatment, the girl deserts the parental roof, much to the grief and consternation of her parents. If she has sense, and luck favors her, she may become self-supporting. Most runaway girls, making a sincere and honest effort to support themselves, succeed in doing so. Others ignorantly brave, with little or no money and no idea of what to do, once they are free from the severe parental restrictions, soon become discouraged, fall in with bad companions and gradually drift into bad ways or an easy mode of life. |