Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-25
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BT LIZZIE O THOMAS

OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED By LIZZIE o THOMAs
am a girl eleven years old ant
am in love with a man OF fo:ty-six
He says he loves me, and L know
love him. We are to be married
He has a wife and slA
children. She left him about three
wears ago and said no was mean &c
her and would not support her. My
brother don't want me to marry MN
because he is too old. Please adVls'
what to do. know / love him.
o. NJ.
Answer--If I had not received
SO many pitiful letters from
girls who have married. at twelve.
fourteen and sixteen years OF
1ge I would not answer your let
ter because 1t Is almost impossl-
BILE to believe that an e.even-
year-old child should seriously
write that she intends marrying
man of any age, much less one
forty-six years old. In the hrst
place, unless the man has been
divorced from his first wife, he
cannot legally marry you. In
the second place, you Will he
sorry for the rest of your life il
Won marry a man whose wife Left
lim for the reasons given. In
the third place you are nothing
but a baby yet yourself-entirely
too young for marriage, and your
brother should certainly see to
il that no marriage Occu- S. You
have asked for my advice, now
do as / say if you value your
future happiness. Go to school,
read, learn to be a capable and
fine woman. Then think Of love
and marriage.
am a girl eighteen years old.
have been engaged to boy seven
teen years old, have been going w.t.
him nine months, but we are broken
up. He got into trouble and has for
saken me. He promised to write to
me and to come back last Sunday
but l have not seen him or heard
from him any more. He said he
could never live happily without M
and l can't either. love no one
but him. Do you think he loves me
by doing that way?
BROKEN HEARTED GIRL.
Answer-The seventeen-year-
old boy is too young to be really
in love or to assume the respon-
sibilities of marriage. He
proves it by getting into trou-
ble," and if he is unreliable
about keeping his word and
about coming back to you he will
be unreliable in all other mat
tiers. Besides he Is younger
than you, and you are not so old
but that you can afford to put
him out of your life and begin tC
think of other things besiGes
sweethearts and marriage for
awhile.
1 am O. girl OF fourteen and an
coming to you for advice. L am an
orphan, and not like most girls, ask
ing advice about girls, for l think a
girl is not old enough to think about
going with boys. If they are not
old enough to know themselves how
to do. DO you? 1 am living with
my uncle and aunt, and they are not
good to me andSwIll not let me go II
school and 1 have heard about g
school for children that was not able
20 get an education to work their way
and will you please tell me
if that is so and where Is it?
would rather 1t was in Georgia.
Thanking you for your advice.
BLUE 81 Els.
Answer think you aAe
wise little girl. l wish that 1
could help you get an education.
Write to Mrs. H. 3. Wey, 125
Elizabeth sta eet, Atlanta, and
tell her all about yourself and
what you want to do. ASK her
can sne hep you ind school
and ask her advice and aid.
Perhaps she can help you as
she is chairman of a Students
Aid fund through when the
Georgia Federation OF Women's
cubs tries to hep deserving
girls secure an education.
am q girl nearing my sixteenth
birthday. 1 want to go to hign
school SO bad. My fatner always
said / could go until now, and now
WAOAA L toNC SOb AnA OAAONeA A@A any
studies to go, he says 1 can't go. He
wants ME to go to country schooi.
have already taken elghth grade one
term, although was in country
school. Can you give me any ad-
wee, as to show him the good there
is in it. Daddy owns a large farm
and could send me if he would.
DAPHNE.
Answer am so sorry that
,our father will not see
hat you are not only entitled tt
IN education but that it is
GOOD business proposition 70
either a girl or a boy to lear,
Just as much as he or she can.
Can't you just persuade" hin
o let you go by begging him to
ct you go? Put it up to hin
hat If he really loves you he will
-ry to give you every advantage
md show him just how much you
want to go. Do not be resent
full in trying to show him this
but loving and affectionate. If
that doesn't work try to show
him that q high school and col,
lege education makes a girl bet
ter able to take care of her
self If she ever has to. and will
enable you to be a greater help
to him on the farm. Keep on