Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-19

M me that you are II years Old
and that you are thinking
of clipping with a young chap who
clerks in the haberdashery store
that you pass every day, and who
has perfectly stunning eyes and
wears the SWEETEST clothes.
Whenever you catch a glimpse
of him your heart just goes flip
pety-flop, and you have little chills
and fevers just exactly like Lady
Gwendolyn experienced in the
"Earl's Daughter" and you could
listen forever to him talk while he
called you Baby Doll" and ooh,
You Kid" Besides which your
step just matches his in dancing,
and he likes pink strawberry ice
cream like you do, and he's just
crazy about the movies, as you are.
BY all these signs and tokens
you know that what you feel for
him is a deep, unalterable love,
the passion of a lifetime, and that
he is the one man in the world that
fate and nature destined for your
mate.
And Il doesn't seem so very
young to you. You feel quite
quite old, and very wise, and expe-
rienced; and you haven't a doubt
that you are perfectly capable Of
deciding the most important prob
lem of your whole life.
OF course, your mother and ia
Their object, and say that you are
nothing but a baby, and that
there'u be plenty of time to think
. of love and getting married when
you are really grown up, but par
ents are such old fogy people, and
so unprogressive. such altogether
back numbers, that it's mere weak
ness to listen to their views or to
be influerced by them.
So you and Percy-isn't that just
the most romantic name?-are
thinking about clipping, and getting
married in spite of your mammas
and papas.
You Are Taking Chances.
Don't do it, little girl. l know
you hate figures, but just cast your
eye over the cold, hard statistics
of divorce, and they will show you
that more than rs per cent of the
marriages that end in disaster
were the result of Opponents, or
where very young people got mar
ried. Naturally you are sure that
you and Percy would prove a grand
exception to the rule Maybe you
would. but the experience of thou
sands and thousands of other mis-
cradle men and women show how
terribly the odds are against you.
You haven't got even gambling
chance for domestic happiness.
You think that the feeling that
you entertain for Percy is love. 1t
is not. 1t is the dawning of sex
consciousness. 1t is your first reali-
zation Of the fact that you are a
woman. and that Percy is a man,
and that between the two there is
the mysterious call of sex sounded
by nature.
Your mother is too modest TO talk
to you about such things, and that
is why YOU and millions of other
little. young, ignorant girls blunder
into matrimonial misery. They mis-
take the futter that man in general
produces in their breasts for love Of
some particular individual man.
Distrust your emotions, my dear. as
you would a band of traitors that
were trying to deceive and lure you
into slavery. Don't marry any man
until you have known many men.
and can distinguish between the
excitement that the attention and
society of anything in masculine
garb inspires in YOU from the deep
and pervading contentment you feel
in the presence of the one Man in
the world for YOU.
And don't answer every call that
comes along. for fear YOU will miss
saying Yes" TO the right one.
When he arrives You viii hear his
voice. though IL whispered to YOU
across the ocean.
You say that You are perfectly
confident that Percy is your ideal OF
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