Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-26


dren.
I am a boy nineteen years old,
coming to you for advice. I havt
girl sixteen years old. Are we
too young to get married, or should
we wait until we are older?
How late should a boy stay with
a girl at night, and should he hug
and kiss a girl or not. l don't think
there is any harm in it. How should
a boy ask a girl to marry her and
is it proper to carry girl out car
riding? How is the best way OF
getting in with girls parents when
girl.
BLUE-EYED BOY.
ANSWER: You are both too
young to marry. Wait two or
if you still feel the same, you
will be safe in marrying. Diff
ferent customs prevail in diff
ferent localities-I think ten
thirty is late enough for a boy to
stay. You should not hug and
kiss girl unless you are really
engaged, with the wedding date
set. And when you are deeply
enough in love to ask a girl to
marry you, you'll need no help
from an outside you'll know
exactly what to say.
1t is permissible to take a girl
car-riding-but it is better for
a group of young people to go
together.
The best way 1 know of to
get in" with girls parents, is
by proving t. them that you are
straight and decent-that your
intentions are honorable-that
you have the proper respect for
the girl--and that you are cap
ahlo of nrntpNtinC hnr whom she
is with you. No father or
mother could possibly object to
a boy like that taking their
daughter out,
L am writing 10 you for advice.
L am a g. ass widow with one child.
1 am separated from my husband.
lie would not support the baby.
livery time l would ask him to buy
clothing tor it he would say he diu
not have the money, when l know
ne could have gotten the money. lie
did noe seem TO care much tor the
Daby and lett him. Do you think L
did right for leaving him? Now he
promise to do better. Please ad-
wise me what to do in the Semi
W eekly journal.
LONELY WIDOW.
P. S.--Tell me if it would be all
light to get my, divorce and marry
.ISdlHs
ANSWER: [ think you would
be very unwiSe Ito go back to
your husband, until you can feel
reasonably sure that he Will do
better in the future than he has
done in the past.
If you feel quite sure that you
no longer care for him, you
would be safe in getting di-
vorce. But l don't think L would
think Of ulVorce and remalrlage
in the same breatn-your unhap-
piness in this instance should
prove the folly of hasty, thought
less marriage.
1 am coming for your advice. L
am 10 years of age and my father
and mother are both dead, and L
live with one of my uncles in the
country. l am letting my hair grow
out. How must l fix it. L am in
love with a boy a little older than
| am and he has asked me to marry
him when we finish school. Is IT
proper to hug and kiss himi What
must J. say? Is it proper to walk
with him from school and let him
carry my books. / have light hair,
fair complexion, feet Z inches tall
weigh 73 pounds. Is it proper to
comb the boys hair and also powder
number of shoe you wear in
crowd? We have a boy good at
that in our community. Is it all right
go to the orchard and gather fruit
With him. How long must l wear
~ dresses? l, wear them little
love the bend of my knee.
ANSWER: can hardly be-
lieve that little girl of ten
years would write such a letter
"a Letter, so foolish with it's talk
of love and marriage as this. 1t
will be ten years at the least
before you are old enough to dis
cuss such subjects. Put such
ideas out of your head, and de-
vote yourself to your school
books. Why don't you read the
letters in this department every
week from the foolish little girls
of thirteen and fourteen who
married as children, and have
nothing to look forward to but
long life of drudgery and misery
when they should be just be-
ginning to have girlhood's good
times.
Brushing boys hair, powder
ing his face-how Utterly silly!
Can't you find games to play,
with children your owe age, ana
get all these foolish nations out
of your childish head.
[ am a girl sixteen wears of age
m l too young to have boy friends:
/ am going with a boy who VIII
soon be seventeen and he often tells
me that he loves me. and / think a
lot of him just as a friend. What
must I say when he tells me that he
ly kind to me. Is It all right for
me to sit out on the porch at night
if the moon is shining? Would it
be all right to have my picture made