Phoenix tribune., 1925-06-20
Why Girls Leave Home
Is Told By Woman
Who Gives a Remedy

why w SlI1S 1edNS HOlue! Is IL
wanderlust? Is it the call of great
cities, the entrance of women in in
dustry, the freedom and adventure of
the outside world? Or is it disagree
ment with parents, dissatisfaction
with home life? Is it indeed deadly
homesickness of the home far worse
than the ordinary well-known kind
which is contracted when far away
from the beloved place?
Adjutant Julia Kessler, superin-
tendent of the Salvation Armys Home
and Hospital, 45th Street and Blue
mound Road, at Wauwatosa, thinks
that parents and home conditions are
the most important reasons for girls
leaving home. She is sponsor for
new set of ten commandments mod
eled closely upon the Mosaic decalogue
but especially designed for parents to
follow in order that they may keep
their daughters at home. This is how
they read:
the family. Make it the holy of
holies for members of the household,
the happy hunting grounds for friend
ships, and the vale of sweet content
in the valley of tears.
II. Thou shalt not call thy daugh-
ter despicable names as "hussie,"
"vamp," 'loafer" or good-for-noth-
ing."
III. Remember to keep merry the
holidays and birthdays. Don't let the
home life become drab with no Christ
mas tree, no Thanksgiving pies,
and no birthday cakes with candles.
~. Honor thy daughter with
praise for her achievements, that it
may be well with her and she may
live long at thy fireside.
V. Thou shalt not kill the spark
of ambition and romance in thy
daughter by insisting that she marry
for money or by arranging any sort of
loveless pact.
VII. Thou shalt not take all of
thy daughters salary nor an unjust
portion of it. She has right to her
rewards and thou must learn to re-
.spect her better judgments.
VIII Thou shalt not deceive thy
daughter by not being frank with her,
Tell er the truths of life when she
should know them. Do not allow her
to believe too long in Santa Claus or
the stork.
TX. Thou shalt not envy thy daugh-
ter's new dresses, nor her parties, nor
her youth. Remember thou vert
young once thyself.
X. Thou shalt not envy thy daugh-
ter's lovers. Help her to choose
friends and above all, invite her to
entertain them in thy home.
The officer believes that if parents
keep these commandments and fellow
the precepts and teachings of the
Bible, more than half of the run
away girls would remain at home.
at is not the modish clothes that
you place on the backs of your daugh-
ters-it is rather the good thoughts
and desires that you implant in their
hearts"
The time to begin the training of |
ones daughter is in her infancy when
habits of obedience and the spirit of |
mutual confidence are to be started. |
Better even, the time to begin is be-
fore the daughter is born by proper
training Of the mother, for if the
mother possess wisdom the daughters
rearing is usually all right. AS to
the father, he ought to be real COM
panion to his wife and daughters and
not merely the necessary evil of
breadwinner. Both parents must hold
up the same high standards.
Mere possession of wealth does not
mean that the parents know how to
properly bring up their children.
Sometimes in the poorest homes the
daughters have been taught the most
refined feelings of sympathy and self
control.
Relative to present-day trends, the
Salvationists have come to the certain
conclusion that modern dancing is the
greatest menace to the morals of
young women. Often when an officer
asks the unmarried mothers at Sal
walton Army rescue homes if dancing
had anything. to do with their down.
fall, many of them exclaim, "Oh,
everything"
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