Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-04

am an orphan girl sixteen years
I'D and married. 1 had to stay with
ny sisters and brothers, and wher
was fourteen years old they fore
ID me to marry man I hated be-
cause he was wealthy. 1 told my
people 1 did not love this man be-
,ore we married. They said I coulc
earn to love him. After we mar
led l tried to learn to love him, but
le treated me so cruel until 1 could
lot learn to love him. I don't love
him, can't love, nor never can love
him. He says he doesn't love ms
Ind that he doesn't care how bad he
;reats me. He has whipped me sew.
eral times, but my people don't seen
10 have any sympathy for me
Please tell me what to Go. If I quiz
him I can't go back to my people
md 1 can't live with him. My hus.
band knows I do not love him anC
was forced to marry him. Do please
print this and pardon me for writ.
ng so much. have no children
ANSWER-If you have no
children, leave him. Go to the
pastor of the church nearest you,
tell him what you have told me,
and tell him that you do not
intend to stay with a man who
abuses you in any such manner
and ask him to- arrange for you,
through his ministerial connec-
lions, to go to some home where
you will be looked after while
you prepare to earn your living;
and then learn some kind of
work that will enable you to
support yourself. If you are so
fortunate as to be able to make
these arrangements, have moth
ing whatever to do with men in
the future until you are old
enough and wise enough to Judge
them correctly and have suffi-
cent wil1-poWer to refuse to ac-
cede to commands or requests
that will mean unhappiness for
you. The humblest and hard
est sort of work is preferable
to marriage without love, even
when a man knows what he
owes the woman whom he has.
promised to love and cherish
No man has either moral or
legal right to whip his wife;
and, personally, I would starve
to death rather than live with
one who had dared to use his
superior strength in any such
manner. However, there is no
need for that, as the world is
full of opportunities for those
who have courage and initiative
who are anxious to learn and
willing to work steadily and
earnestly. Let me hear from
you again.
L am about seventeen years old
have brown hair, grey eyes, anc
fair skin. What is good to take of
sunburn? My neck is very bonev
Can you tell me how to make it fiji
out? Is it proper for girls to smoke
When you hear anything about your
self that is not true, how can .yor
stop 1t? How can I manage to bt
popular? The boys seem to like ms
but don't seem to care to go will
me. How can I have more girls
come to my home? I invite them of
ten but they don't come, and 1 ar
sure that I treat them nice. How
can l be popular with the girls
When I want a boy to come to SCI
me, how can I let him know?
LAUNA.
ANSWER: Sour buttermilk,
lemon juice, and oatmeal pouI-
tees (not too thick) will re-
best. Massaging your neck with
cocoa-butter, if done patiently
for from four to six weeks,
every night and morning, will
help your neck to fill out. 1t is
not proper for girls to smoke
The only way to stop unpleasant
things, is by always behaving
IN such a manner that nobody
who knows you will believe ugly
things against you.
A girl who is good tempered,
who never says ugly, unkind
things about people, who is con-
siderate of the comfort of those
about her, who is not ashamed
to do kind little things for peo-
pie older, and poorer, and a girl
who is jolly and friendly, is al
ways popular. It isn't easy
to; do, but when you start out
and try hard, you can accom-
plish wonders.
Why not, ask a lot of girls
and boys over to your house
some night, and have a candy
pulling. Don't be formal and GER :
enormous about it-just take
them out into the kitchen, and
make them feel perfectly at
home. And, after the candy is
pulled, you can play games. I'M,
til time to go home. If you try
to see that everybody else is
having a good time, and show
them that your main object, as
their hostess, is to have them
enjoy themselves, I'm sure they