Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-28
MARY MEPEDITA'S ADVICE
TOLONELY GIRLS AT HOME

MARY MEPEDlTA'S ADVICE
TO LONELY GIRLS AT HOME
We are three lonely girls coming
to you for advice. We are all in
love with the same boy. He lives
about fifty miles from us. We girls
live about two miles apart. Didn't
either of US know of his attentions
to the other until right recently. He
used to live in our town. He CORE
spends with US all and goes to see
US all on the same trip. He comes
about once a month. We all love him
dearly, and he loves us all, or nt
lease he seems to love us, for he
always kisses US goodbye when he
starts to leave. Is it right for US to
kiss him and allow him to kiss US?
He is about eighteen and he tells
all of US that he could never be hap
happy without us. How can we tell
which one he loves the best? We
have all forsaken the other boys for
him. We are real anxious to know
which he loves the best. We are
each of us fourteen years old. When
he goes back home he always sends
us all a nice box of chocolate candy
and he very often sends us large
boxes of fruit. We are in deep trou-
bic as we don't either of us think
that life is worth living without him.
THREE BROKEN HEARTED GIRLS
Instead of being Three Brok-
en-Hearted Girls you are three
very foolish little girls. The
10y is merely flirting with you
and when you discovered that he
was coming to see you all on the
same trip, that should have
convinced you once and for all
that he cared nothing for any of
you, save as friends. 1t was
wrong and foolish for you to per-
nit him to kiss you-you should
not allow boys to kiss you. If you
continue to do SO, you may same
day in reality be broken-hearted"
instead of embarrassed by your
hurt vanity, as you now are.
You are all too young for love
Affairs Be sensible instead of
SLY.
am seventeen, and am engaged to
marry a man of twentythree. He has
a baby girl three years old. He loves
me devotedly--has not only said so,
but has proved it again and again.
He lives forty-four miles from me,
but comes to see me two or three
times a week. l am crazy about the
baby-she stays with me nearly all
the time, and calls me Dear step
muVver." My parents are dead, but
live with my brother, who is TWEEN
ty-siX. He went to school with this
man, and says that he is a fine, splen-
did, big-hearted fellow, and is very
anxious for me to marry him. The
only thing I am hesitating for is that
am just seventeen. But I know
that I can never love any one else.
He says that he will wait all his
life for me-if necessary. Both he
and my brother want me to marry
him at Christmas time. l will be
eighteen next July. What do you
think? This young man is very rich, !
and can give me beautiful home and
all sorts of things. The baby is per-
fectly adorable, and l don't believe
l could love my own child more. |
Please tell me what to do.
DOROTHY l..
ANSWER.--While I do not ap-
prove of a girl so young marrying
and assuming the care of a child
it seems to be an exceptional case.
Your brother knows this man so
we'll, and you, also, seem to know
him well. If you love him and
the baby, too, L see no reason
why you should not marry him.
[ am a girl of seventeen. Am
[ too young to go with boys?
have callers-is it wrong for me to |
go to church, and singings with |
boys? have been going with a
boy = two years and love him
dearly. He is eighteen. Are we too
young to marry? Should a boy wear
a girls ring? Is it proper to &C
cept presents from boys? Is
NELL.
ANSWER-You are too young
to go with boys except rs
friends. 1 think you are much
too young for love affairs-and
too young for marriage. Girls
should not accept expensive
resents-jewelry, etc.-from
boys. Candy, flowers, books, mu-
sic are all acceptable gifts, how
ever. Girls should not give boys
their rings to wear.
am fifteen. Am 1 too young to
have callers, or to go with boys to
church? And to other gatherings?
the boys and they love me.
EDNA.
You are too young to have
callers, or to go with boys to
church or, other gatherings, ex-
cept with a crowd of boys and
girls. You are at the very least
five years too young to think of
marriage. And you should have
your head N of more whole
some things than love affairs
at your age.
We are two lonely girls Of fif-
teen and sixteen. Are we old enough
to go with the boys? A man of
thirty-four wants to come to see
the fifteen-year-old girl, and I
haven't tod him whether he could
or not. What shall 1 tell him?
am in love with him. The sixteen
year-old girl is in love with a boy OF
nineteen. He seems to love me dear
ly, but he is going with another girl,
and refuses to stop going with her.
What must we do?
LONELY GIRL, OF FLORIDA.
ANSWER.-Oh, you foolish
children, with your naive AZ am
in love" You don't even know
what love is. You are in love
with the idea of love, and its
romance-but you are both much
too young for such affairs. Do
please try to think about things
more suitable, until you are old
enough to know what love is
then there will be plenty of time
for romance.
am a girl of seventeen. Am 1
too young to go with boys? 1 am
III love with boy of twenty-one;
he doesn't care for me, for he goes
with other girls in daytime and
wants to go with me at night. Is
1t all right to tell him to go with
other girls at night, and go with