Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-05
NEW WORLD GIRLS.
OLD WORLD HOMES
Lack of Sympathy at Home,
Say DeLinQuents.

NEW YORK. June 5.-W5As of will
fuI daughters have smote tn ears OF
social workers for many years, the con-
tentiOn that mother didn't understand
being used as an excuse for wayward-
ness.
Mothers have a way Of questioning
girls who come in during the small
hours Of the morning, who are unable
to tell where and how a certain young
mans acquaintance was acquired
that swain who doesn't care to call on
old-fashioned parents, but who favors
the street corner, or the dance hall as
a trusting place.
In the latest report of the New York
Probation and Protective society, re
Gently made public, many girls have
given as their reasons for waywardness
lack of sympathy at home They say
they were urged to marry men they could
not love, although approved by parents
that mother couldn't see why embroid-
cry Of an evening wasn't superior to out
side amusements and that old world
ideas were forced on them to the ex-
elusion of the thoughts and manners of
the new American generation.
SAYS GOOD WORD
T0R MOTHERS.
But here is some, one to put in a word
for mother who is trying. after the way
OF mothers, to do her bit"
Miss Stella Miner who is secretary Of
the Girls Protective league branch or
ganization Of the New York Probation
and Protective society, says one great
problem Of today in social work is help
ing the foreign parents whose American
horn children have the advantage by
- Ia. Ill
ssYou'd really be surprised" said Miss
Miner, "at the number of such cases in
which a young girl is mistress of the
home She may stay out till long after
midnight and talk down the parents
fears BY saying she knows American
customs better than they.
CAS- for AmericanizatiOn OF parents and
family. both. I believe that it must be
approached very cautiously. Wholesale
making over of personalities is unwel-
Gene, unfair and can not be accomplished
ny announcing aggressiTely ones inten-
tion.
I'VE handle many Of what we term
home adjustment cases. Some Of these
concern the wayward girl problem, ana
many involve a girl who has done no
wrong, but who has difficulty in living
a modern life without disturbing her
family's old world ideas.
1.-THE best way to settle such diii-
Guilty is through q girls mother The
mother loves her daughter and firmly
believed she is doing best to restrain
her, in many ways, which on the other
hand, may be too drastic and repress-
ing to Young America.
by showing a mother such as this.
that her daughter may gain wholesome
amusement and recreation which is con-
sistent with old world propriety and
new world freedom, accomplishes a great
deal
Many cases have come up Of girls
who have found employment as dancing
teachers in tie academies believing
they would thus meet nice men and have
= good time every evening. OF course.
they meet the men, but disillusion and
disgrace follow frequently.
DANCING ACADEMIES"
SOURCE OF DANGER.
Teaching dancing in public places
IS most dangerous occupation for any
young woman.
Just how dangerous only\an organ
izatiOn such as ours can ever realize.
The character of the girls is never in
vestigateG by the men who employ
them, addresses are not kept and most
OF the work is done on a commission
basis
This is where oCr organization is
able to bridge the gap between dull
home and innocent amusements.
I'VE have established for that pur-
pose the girls service league and the
YorkvilIe Service club. Parents are
often invited and always are delighted
with the work
Frequent entertainments are given
at the clubhouses, girls meet other girls
and their friends, educational classes
are established and any girls in need Of
help or advice may find 1t.
THE important thing in the work OF
the New Probation and Protective asso-
citation is that 1t reaches dissatisfied and
restless girls before they become court
cases"
This is the day Of the child. The
most popular play of the closing theat-
ricaI season concerned the trials Of mis-
understood Adolescence.
In many homes difficulties arise, but
the moss perplexing problems prevail
where a mother and daughter not only
speak different tongues, but have diff
ferent ideals Of life.