The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-07-15

Dear Miss Grey: While reading
your columns last evening. be-
came interested In the letter writ.
ten by Lonely Peggy" ! would
like 20 express my sentiments on
the question az TO whether II 10
proper for a olri TO be kissed by her
sutton. an, not going 70 answer
directly. yes or no. will just es-
press my honest conviction, col
ieeted from experience and OBJ
servation.
When ! was a lad OF 20 ! paid
attention 10 a girl two yesrs my
Junior. We had been schoolrates
and pals for eight years. When
our school days were brought to
close we were separated for four
years. When next we met we were,
az we thought. man and woman.
Soon we were together after work.
Ing hours, she being alone In the
city a. we'll az I. I sensed q differ.
ent regard for her than for my other
girl associates. Possibly because
we were sehooirates In by-oone
days. A. time passed ! began to
wish for her company individually
and she did the same for mine.
After a year devoted 20 her began
TO feel Il was up 10 me to declare
myself. Up TO this time nothing
was said or done that would DO con-
sIdersd improper for two people.
Then I began to feel that lovers
should In some way express their
emotions; but when I told her this.
there was nothing doing. For this
very reason began TO lessen my
calls. but we stlli remained friends
the same a. during school days.
Was she right In making the OBJ
Iectior7 must confess I stlIl hold
this first love above all others.
Why7 Because she was right !
wasn't old enough 20 realize II then,
but years change Judgments
I think Of this young woman first
and last, altho ! have met and paid
attention to numbers Of other girls.
They all get monotonous after a
short acquaintance, because they
haven't the seif-esteem and lndI-
vlduslity the first possessed.
want TO say TO LONELY Peggy"
that her opinion on this question
need not be discussed. Lovers old
and young know what this In
diligence In promIscuous kissing be-
fore marriage leads TO. Can you
Imagine "Peqgy's" mother prorls-
euousIy kissing every Tom, Dick
and Harry that oourted her3 Will
never believe II, or that she would
approve OF II. or she would not have
conceived a child who denounces u.
imagine the mothers who produced
such men as Lincoln or Edison In
dulglng In such practlce--never.
People with right morals don't pro-
duce such children. Just think OF
Lincoln saying: "AIl my honor, all
my greatness, I owe to my mother"
II he had entertained the Idea his
mother was a woman OF such loose
morals.
Peggy" need not worry about
selecting her company from such as
call her a plker. There 10 and al.
ways was and always Will be a law
that like people attract and unlike
repel, and II she throws away her
individuality, her womanhood, mere
ly TO have somebody to oour out
her love upons she 10 making scars
that years will fall to wear away.
When the man comes along that
holds the same view that she does,
there won't need TO be any further
discussions as to whether she was
right or wrong. Don't mistake emo
tIonai love for genuine. The former
lasts from one TO three months; the
latter forever.
As TO her girl friend who gave
her such noble CD advice. will
epeat the words OF the great