of other centres of pleasure and pain in the world

myself. But some truth could be

worked altogether only seven months during the 2 | years that she went to work. There was also a great variety in the nature of the work. Some started as telephone operators and finished as factory hands, and in between these occupations they were child's nurse, doctor's office assistant, waitress, finisher in a dressmaker's shop and salesgirl. It is also to be noticed that the conflict, here, between parents and child was of the greatest. The parents were foreign born and of the type which never assimilated the American life. They were all of the low grade of European peasant or farm labourer. They were like what we call in this country " the white trash ". In this country their occupations were of the same type. Ignorance at home, absence of restraint, moral and otherwise, and a low mentality were sufficient to direct the destinies of these girls in well-defined channels. If we study the motives which led these girls to delinquency we also find a great difference from the first group. Delinquency had started before the girl left home, and the final break came unexpectedly and impulsively. But even in this group we fail to find economic conditions as a cause of delinquency. None of these girls became prostitutes or committed larceny for the purpose of bettering their economical state. None of them did it because they were out of work. On the contrary, those committing larceny (shop-lifting, mostly) were working at that time, and those who became prostitutes had no financial benefit thereby. They did it because someone told them to do it, and someone else brought the men to them. Their great emotional instability, their great suggestibility, made them tools in the hands of others, and they would have committed