The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-02-09
WHY RICH GIRLS LEAVE HOME

A new angle to the ago-old problem
WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME" has
been brought forward by the noted
DR.. /. L. Nascher, specialist in nervous
diseases, in a recent article in The
New York American. 1t is some
thing more than a coincidence, also
that the doctors article touches upon
brought cut in the Warner Brothers
production "Why Girls Leave Home"
that many girls leave homes wherein
they have been surrounded by every
luxury and with their every wish or
whim gratified He say3 in part:
why do young women of excellent
family, good social position and wealth
leave the Injuries of home t wander
out into the wOrld-sometimes never
to return"
or course, it is easy to understand
why the working girl leaves the
cramped quarters of her tenement
home and seeks for something, any
thing, which may be better.
There is no difficulty, either in ex-
planning why the stage-struck young
miss leaves home, seeking a career on
the stage or in the movies.
And the police records make plain
the sad reason why the farmers
daughter disappears and goes to the
neighboring great city a few months
after the flashy young city visitor has
been a summer border at her home.
Some girls leave home, of course, be-
they are willful and rebel
against the restraint of conventional
society-headstrong young women,
who want to live their lives as they
please and laugh at the advice of older
people and are willing to take the
consequences of the folly.
But there are some cases of mys-
FERROUS disappearance which are the
result of sudden loss Of mental bal
ance. For the time the girl is ment.
ally i'll. Doctors recognize what 9TH
ers do not-that the balance of the
system of women and the en-
the feminine trend of thought is not
the same as with men. Women are
more impressionable, more sensitive,
more impulsive, often governed by
sentiment rather than by reason.
The explanation of the disappear
ance of the young New York BRIDE
to-be with her wedding gown under
her arm. the pitiful wanderings of
pretty Miss Beckett, is that they were
at the moment suffering from one of
the various manifestations of that
s%trangest of all human maladies,
known only to the medical world as
hysteria.
Physicians themselves can give no
explanation for this disease, as there
is no change in the brain or nervous
system, nothing to account for the
abnormal ideas and actions of the
hysterican person. They call it a
psychoneurosis with perverted ideas
which control the will and the func-
tons of the body. But nobody under
stands why it happens.
The normal female mind is swayed
more powerfully by her emotions,
than by her reasons, but her reason
and will are usually strong enough to
check emotional extravaganza. In
hysteria the emotions have complete
control, and neither reason nor will
can check the emotional impulses.
Fear is the most profound and most
persistent Of all emotions, being pres
ent in all normal minds, though often
represented by reason and other emo
tons.
Combine this instructive desire
with strong emotions, a reasoning
faculty which car stand little further
strain, and an erratic will, all based
upon a nervous constitution, and we
have the ideal conditions for a hys-
terical explosion. A cross word. a
suspicion, even a whim will suffice to
bring on the attack which may cul-
inmate in tantruns, spasms, throwing
dishes at an unfortunate husband or
running away from home.
The character of Madeline Wallace
as portrayed by Maurine Powers in
the screen version or "Why Girls
Leave Home exemplifies the alien.
lists article and forms a study in
psycho-analysis that is of great inter
est. The photoplay ever goes further
into the matter by showing how such
a condition may be avoided. Will be
shown at the Pleasant Hour, Feb. 16
and 17.-Advertisement.