The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-12-03
Laura Jean Libbey's
Daily Talks on
Heart Topics

LAZY ldlKS on
Heart Topics /
Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
THE GIRL WHO WEEDS TOO
YOUNG.
Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
mo one could tell-for nobody knew,
Why love was made to gladden. a
few,
And hearts that would forever be
true,
Go lone. and starved the whole way
through"
Very young girls who fall in love
are quite sure that they have met the
one intended for them to wed. When
he pops the question, be it in ever so
sipshod a manner, the girl is ready to
give her consent.
II she is questioned abruptly as to
why she is to wed, there is scarcely
one girl in thousand who can give
satisfactory answer. One will tell you
she wants some one all her own to
beau her about. Another will say SO
many girls wanted him that she was
gratified in cutting all her girl friends
out. The girl not yet out of her teens
has but vague notion Of what love
really is; it is stepping from child
hood, which made up of dolls, hoops
and pretty fancies, to wifehood, which
has its struggles, more often con-
fronted with the seamy side of life
than its smooth, pleasant path. The
girl over 16 is yet but a child in
thought and body. It takes more ma
ture years to realize what true love
is, its depth, its breadth, its profound
greatness, the love which rises in its
strength to the height of the skies or
endures when dragged through the
mire of sorrows from one end of the
world to another. What the girl of
16 thinks she loves this year, she
abhors the next. Her eyes are too
young to see life as it is. She thinks
only of it's pleasures, its trifes, and
not of its struggles. 1t is the butter
fly period of her life, when it is best
fitted that fancy should rule instead
Of reason. Lacking in experience, she
does not know how to prize love, and
is sometimes deceived by the counter
fit, thinking it the real.
When this occurs her life is en1bit-
tered. She does not hesitate to cry
out that she married altogether to-,
soon to know her own mind; that
| was shame her youth should have
been taken advantage of and bonds
forced upon her from which she could
not break away.
The most dangerous part of such
an affair is that she is not quite sure
whether or not she would have made
different choice, if she had known
the world of men and their ways bet.
ter, and would have been more cap.
able of choosing wisely and happily
The girl who weds when she is years
older seldom or never has regrets
They do not marry for the curl of his
mustache, jaunty manners, stylish
clothes or winning, flattering WAYS
and speech. All of these make de.
cided impression on the pretty crea.
ture who is no longer child nor vel
woman.
Young girls who marry at tender
| age are not so much to blame as the
men who take them to wife. Wher
one youthful marriage turns out hap
fpily, a hundred come to grief, endins
often in divided homes and Iove-beref
hearts.
] The prevention Of too youthful mar
riages is to discourage girls from let
ting their minds run on the subjec
of boys, or encouraging them to call
Or to accept invitations to accompan,
them to amusements, dances, pictur
shows, or strolls through the parks
Girls should not be led to believe tina
happiness Of life depends on love an
matrimony in youth time.
! Miss Libbey's answers to your lei
tiers. Correct name and address mus
be given to insure attention, not
print. Write short letters on one sid
Of page only. Use ink. Personal lei
tiers cannot be answered. Addres
Miss Laura Jean Libbey, No. 81
President Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Tickle of Fancy.
| Dear Miss Libbey: / am a girl {
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