Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-24
THOROUGHLY DIsGUSTEp.


Dear Cynthia-Kindly publish this let
Ter IN your valuable column in reference
to the letter Of Very, Lonely"
Dear Very Lonely-Here's a little
story that viii strive TO impress on your
min that the fortune or misfortunes Of
life are about equal for either ser.
When was fourteen years old I met
q girl OF sixteen years OF g at . party:
HI angel after about a half hour OF
our acquaintance started TO tell me how
nice / was, how she would love to have
a nice young man like ma for a friend
and many other .vamp!rish remarks.
Needless TO say, j fell head over heels for
her.
That night when l Wen home ] con-
sidered myself to be the most fortunate
Young man in the world. So I mad up
my mind to double my efforts in study
ins music and attending school, and 4
was getting along nicely.
Every time We would meet she always
reiterated that she loved me more and
more all the time. But this happiness
came to q sudden halt ono Saturday aft
sImoon when upon meeting her to my
"Al, l heard that you are keeping COM
pany with another girl, so don't bother
me any more"
protested. I implored her and tried
to convince her Of the mistake; but It
corner with tears rolling down my
cheeks.
Upon going home. I decided that IL
my first love was a disastrous failure. it
wasn't worth while struggling in music
and at school.
So against the wall went the instru-
ment, torn were all the books. Father
came running upstairs. but for the first
time he received a curse. l was mad,
didn't want to see or hear any one.
The food that sister used to bring IN
front OF my door, for I always kept II
locked, was untouched except for a little
bread and water.
Life Of this sort was kept up for about
two months. till finally father convinced
me that I must spend a few months out
of town at my uncle's house. Entertain
n,ents and Jolly tines were OF no Avail to
for a walk some one Of the family would
always be with me. After about six
months SnS f q THU, my ne father came Ssa AS Ses1o again IN
take me to Europe. with the hope that ]
would forget her there. SO in the sprins
OF 1914 we sailed for Europe. Every
thing that ! desired was given to me,
but very little did my heart desire out
So after about eight months We re-
turned to this country again. And II
wasn't until after all the love that ] had
a new life. / resumed my music studies,
ate, But still there's a something left
from that tragedy n that Is to distrusy
all females as rpr as rove ~ concerned,
I know that this Is a wrong step. but !
cannot help II. Every time I am IN
with a girl a voice seems to
ring out the words. Don't trust! Don't
trust % The result of. this tragedy has
for about three years held UP my prog
ress in life, a financial bankruptcy on the
part OF father and. above all, the FADING
away OF happiness.
trSis ia about all the outline Of my al.
venture. excluding the details. So you
see that my case Ia a much more serious
one than yours. where nature has
treated me more roughly than she haI
However, we are both young, so ls,
|, Ma rejoice that we may receive a revarc
for our past misfortune. HOPE.
Yes. a very trying tale, but a very 70
markabie one. too. A boy OF fourteen
would have done far better 20 have beer
piayine m out of doors than failInI
! IN love with q girl two years older. You
father was certainly o most ienlent man
, allow Yourself 70 become embitt.rsd o,
account OF this experience. There are =,
2 many hne true girls. Just mak,
! up your mind not 70 listen TO the it'll
4 "warninT voice and be good frisnds will
all the nios GIRLS you meet until 70,
come 20 ind the right one.