The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17
Heart and Beauty
Problems

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I have been
going with certain girl here for two
years now. and after my first year
with her 1 became engaged. Then
we would have little spats and break
up for a week or two and when 1
would see her with another fellow
would go back to her again and she
would be my own girl again.
Can you tell me if L really do love
her or am I kidding her along? She
says she loves me and / tell her l love
her, but please let me- know, for am
very anxious. She is also a year older
than 1. A FRIEND.
1t often happens that two young
people will go on like this for years,
caring for each other more than even
they themselves know, having their
little Quarrels and breaking up occa-
sionally, but at the same time quite in
love with each other. In a case like
that there is only one thing to do and
that is to wait. At the present time
you and she are quarreling probably
because you have different points Of
view, but as you both get oldar
your views will probably become more
nearly the same, and some day you
may realize that more is to be gained
by giving in to each other more and
avoiding quarrels-
This girl probably knows that the
easiest way to bother you is to go
with another fellow and she takes that
If you act as if you didn't care at all,
perhaps she would not do it, 1t would
be worth while to try that for while.
In most cases it is best for the man
to be at least two years older. but per-
maps in your case it is all right. You
are the one to judge of that.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: girl told
me what some of her friends were
doing the other day and it seemed so
good and patriotic that / thought
would tell you so you could recon-
mend their work to your other read
egs.
When one of the hospital units was
about to leave for camp, this girls
brother found that eight of the boys
who were going abroad had no par
ents and no families or relatives, and,
in fact. no friends at all in whom they
could confide and tell their troubles
and experiences. This girl is a teach
or and she got eight of the teachers
she knows to form a club. Each one
is going to write to one of these boys
in the ambulance corps every week
or two and send him some little pres
ent or remembrance. 1t will make the
boys lives more cheerful in camp and
will give them something to think of
and cheer up their hearts. Don't you
think that these girls are very patri-
otto? CONSTANT READER.
Yes. 1 do. II certainly will be very
gratifying for these boys to get mail
and presents from home once in a
while 1t is said that when the SOL
diers are in the trenches there is MOTH
ing they appreciate so much as word
from home. / think ii would be well
for others of our idle girls as well an
those who have work to do, to form
clubs and to send remembrances to
the soldiers who are gone to protect
our country and our liberty.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: The o+h.-
evening I went downtown to do soma
shopping and when 1 was conoino
near me caught up with me and aslxed
if he might help me with my bundles
He has never been fresh before ana
was very much shocked to think he
would do such a thing. / had never
met him. NV mother thinks that ~
was all right fN~ him to do il. because
she SAYS he speaks to her every even
ing when he is coming home fror,
work What 90 you think about ft1
PAULINE.
1 think that your mother probaht
knows what is best If he speaks -
her that way IL shows that he is NO.
merely trying to flirt with young efris
He probably feels that he knows vo,,
even II he never has had an intro
duction- Unless he really frias =
flirt With you, you can't surely obiaos
TO ms offering to help you with vo,S
bundles He knows you know ~
lives so near and he probablv faaTs
that he knows you. IF were xo,,
would let him carry the bundles ~.
/ would not encourage him much
dont see anything wrong about b,s
acuons since they were gentler, ~