The Washington times., 1914-06-23

To Girls
By ANNIE LAURIE.

/ Dy ANNIE LhO ME.
Dear Annie Laurie:
I have known a young man for
about month. He has visited me
| frequently. and Is always trying to
| Should / allow this? II not, how
can l prevent It, as do love him.
and would not want him to stop
coming to see me. DIMPLES
IN IMPLIES, you're goose a silly
little. fluttering goose. and
IL that's all you are
OF course you should not al
low this Not for one single minute.
II you do allow 1t you will never win
the real love of this man. The one
way to keep him is to make him wish
for something that you will not give
him.
Do you suppose you're the only one
he visits? Get that idea out of your
head. You're just one In a dozen
He's having fun with yout that's all.
Lots Of fun. And. when he gets tired
Of the fun. he'll leave you and 60 and
have fun with some one else. and then
you will cry very bitterly and wish
you had never seen him.
You do not love him. really. How can
you in a month? You probably think
you do, but thinking a thing doesn't
make it true Make your young man
| behave himself when he comes to see
you or else do not let him come at
all.
E. F. F.-The question Of chaperon-
age. little girl, admits Of much discus
| sion. IL / had daughter Of seventeen
and could afford to DO as liked. !
should a se send n her her psrs she Tsn
| competent elderly maid to look after
| her. But people Of limited means are
obliged 10 make compromises, and, after
all, 1t is all more or less question OF
convention. can see no real reason
Why you should not go to parties and
dances. where the hostess acts as
! chaperon. without having an older
person with you. but / emphaticaIly
don't believe in very young girls going
to dance halls and such places without
some one in authority with them. Why
don't you talk the situation over frank
~ with the members of your family?
Make them understand that they can
trust you not to go places they would
not like to have you go, or do things they
would not like TO have you do. Then,
perhaps, they will agree to let you go
cut with your boy friends some time
place you are going. II you can't per-
suade them to do that, remember, my
dear. that. though they may seem
st bsar 1op do tSsr. and
the sly. The little bit OF pleasure you
get from II Is not worth the pain you
give the ones who care for you, and II
you only wait a little. the time viii
come when you can do as you like.
Dear Miss Laurie: I am q constant
reader of The Times. / am a young
man. and am working at club and live
in the northeast. I have seen nice
little girl over in the southeast that
like very much. Well. I get OF every
evening about s o'clock, and 1 seldom
get to see her except on Sunday. Can
you tell me how / can get acquainted
or get to speak to her. Do you think
II is right to fiirt? 1 hope you win
help me out. as like her. JACK.
Isn't your letter. young man. q con-
fession of lack of ingenuity? II 1 Were
a man and saw girl really and truly
liked, girl whose acquaintance seemed
to me to be worth something. you can |
rest assured that I'd meet her-ard meet |
her In a perfectly nice and proper way. |
First, I'd make Up my mind that she |
was worth knowing. that really want |
ed her for a friend, and was not simply l
taken with her in a lighty. wtll-o the
wisp fashion. Then, II were a nice
young man and could prove the fact, I'd |
exert myself to find out all about the
lady, who she was. where she lived. and |
so on. Whereupon I shoul calmly IN
troduce myself to the men folk Of her
family. and tell them the truth OF the
matter. and I don't believe II would be
very long before I should be properly |
introduced to the girl and an accepted
visitor at the house. while the whole
family would think the more of me for
my straightforwardness
As for fiirting-suppose you tried 10
scrape an acquaintance with the little
girl YOU admire And suppose she al
lowed II. Wouldn't II lower your opin-
Ion OF her. and Wouldn't you always
think: IF she let me pick her UP. she'd
let ANYBODY" And wouldn't you feel
in your heart: We'll. I guess she doesn
amount to much, anyway
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