Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-06

Dear Miss Mary: Will you please
help me, a strange boy. L am
stranger to you but / am in trou-
BILE and 1 am coming to you for ad-
vice. 1 am sixteen years old, and
am corresponding with a girl fiji
teen. She says she loves me dearly
but I think she is trying to fool
me for she let's other boys go to
church with her right before me,
I love her but she won't let me
hug and kiss her. / think if a girl
loves you she will let you hug her
and kiss her She is the kind of a
girl who cares more for older men.
Please tell me how I can make, her
love me and how to make other
girls think lots of me.
Is 1T proper for a boy to eat din
ner at his girls house? Is it prop
err to kiss your girl goodbye? This
letter is rather long but [ am a
troubled boy. Please tell me what
to do.
TROUBLED HEARTED BOY.
The little girl is right to OBJ
ject to your kissing her. And
you ought to appreciate her at
titude. 1t is not gentlemanly to
insist on making overtures to a
SlIl WI0l SIG ulS1lh6S II. Anu
besides you can't expect to have
girls like you if you act that
way.
She is too young to waste her
time on one boy and she is do
ing right to go with others while
she is young. 1 think you will
get over your love affairs
quickly and you don't need any
o5uioo in tho+
AS for making people like
you, first you must be a gentle
man in all you do and say, and
be polite. Be courteous to older
people and kind to dumb an
imals and you will always have
plenty of friends Of both sexes.
Dear Miss Mary: I am coming to
you for advice as I have no moth.
er to advise me. I am a girl of
16 years and go with a boy ri. He
comes most every Sunday. He says
he loves me dearly and I love him
He asked me to marry him. I was
too young to marry yet. Am ]
right? My mother died when I was
4 years old and my father married
again. My stepmother is mighty
mean to me and my father is not
as good to me as he should be.
Would you advise me to marry or
not? I am thanking you for your
best advice. Put an L on my letter
SO I will know 1t. Please print this
I am sure sorry for a girl who has
stepmother. Bye-bye to all.
I am truly sorry for any girl
or boy who is so unfortunate
as to be without their own
mother. I can sympathize with
you as I know what that means.
Stepmothers are all very well
If they are unselfish and have
affectionate dispositions. Some
times they are pretty brave to
enter family where there is a
large number of children or
even one or two. Often it is
the children's fault they don't
get along together.
When man marries the sec
ond time he is very seldom as
kind to his children as he
should be. 1t is true that the
wife can cause him to become
vastly indifferent toward them.
So, in cases like yours, I
think a girl is better off lots
of times if she can get a good
HldH Wnom she loves, to look
after her. Every girl needs a
home. She must be shielded
from the pitfalls of the outside
world, unless she is fitted to
combat with it.
I am a child of fifteen, the eldes
Of seven. AS l have no brothers
| only get to be a girl on Sundays
have to be boy all the week.
wear overalls and help papa worl
| on the farm. like to ride horse
back. We have a fishpond and
go in swimming in summer ant
ride in the, boat in winter. One o.
my boy friends, nineteen, wants m,
to entertain him alone on Sunday
afternoons, but I would rather PLAY
with the other children. Do yol
think I am likely to be an old maiC
if I don't begin to have sweetheart.
| now? Am I old enough to wear Ions
dresses?
pet"
No, I hardly think a girl like
you will ever be on the list of
old maids. think you deserve
a great deal of credit for being
such help to your father, at the
same time I don't think he should