Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-24
MARY MEREDITH'S ADVICE
TO LONELY GIRLS AT HOME


1 am a lonely girl coming to you
for advice. I am twenty years old,
weigh 1875 pounds, five and onehalf
feet tall, have dark hair, dark blue
eyes and fair complexion.
L have been going with a boy near
ly four years and he said he loved
me dearly and couldn't live without
me. He wants me to marry him
soon, but 1 can't make up my mind
to marry him. l love him, and ne
has been a perfect gentleman to me.
I met a boy nearly year ago and
I fell in love with him. He is in
college, He is six years older than
I, but he hasn't been to my home
but once, and he wanted to call and
carry me to picnic on Saturday. l
told him I was going away Friday
and would not be back until Friday
week. When I told him that, he
said, I hope to see you again between
now and a hundred years; but have
seen him and been with him since
then, and he is always asking about
me. He doesn't go with any one,
and when 1 see him he always has
smile, and when I am at parties,
etc, he is going to be with me If
there is any chance. I want you to
advise me why he does that way.
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He is three years older than I.
love the boys, for they are gentle
men to me. Please advise me wheth-
er to marry the boy or wait awhile.
Please advise me in the next paper
(JournaD. Sincerely,
A School TEACHER.
You should be wise enough to
settle your love affairs without
any help from me. But if these
suggestions from me will do you
any good, you are welcome to
them. You are young enough to
wait until you are sure you are
in love with the man well
marry a man unless you do love
him, because happy home is
based on the love that husband
and wife have for each other.
You might be able to stand it
for a while, but you will even
drum married life, unless you
are really in love. You cannot.
love two men just the same.
And you cannot marry two men.
Marry the one whom you say
you love, the one who has stuck
to you for four years. The 9TH
er one is not worrying about
you at all. If he did, he would
contrive to see you oftener.
I am a lonely girl Of seventeen,
coming to you for a bit of advice. 1
am in love with a boy Of twenty
three. Have been going with him
four years. I love him better than
anyone else. He says he loves me
better than any one on earth. Has
asked me and even begged me to
marry him. He asked me first when
I was just fifteen, and 1 told him l
was too young to marry then. He
asked me when I saw him last when
I would marry him. l told him l
| would marry him, but didn't tell him
when. My people try to discourage
me and keep me from marrying any
one. Would you advise me to marry
him now or put him off longer? He
says he thinks he has waited long
advice. Do I write a good hand for
a girl of my age? Miss Meredith. If
you can, please print this for me,
I have written twice before, but
didn't see it in print. Best wishes,
LONELY Grille.
Seventeen is too young to
marry, and it will not hurt the
young man to wait another year
for you, if he really wants you.
| You haven't had a fair chance
yet to know whether you are
| really in love with this boy or
not. Why. don't you try to en-
joy yourself for a while and see
eDe1 HI to go go through SS life with
him. I think your parents are
right. Wait while longer.
AS Merry Widow is writing t.
| you for advice 1 decided to write ant
girl Of sixteen, and have brown hair
and blue eyes and fair complexion
Have been going with boy the same
age. as myself until recently he stop
| ped going with me and started going
with one of my girl friends; This
going, to cut me out and she sue
| ceeded. 1 do not love this boy, only
| as a friend, for I think 1 am rather
| young to know what true love is
of this boy, and he has told some Of
| my friends that he was sorry he hat
| treated me the way he did. Now he
| Is trying to make up with me. Would
| it be proper for me to accept his at
| tentions after he has done. me like
treat him with respect, but not &c
with him any more? l don't like the
| idea of going with him again after
| he treated me as he has. What is
the best thing for me, to do? Hop
| ing this will escape the waste bas
ket and hope to see this in print
| Thanking you, 1 am
Why do you want to go with
| the boy again when he left you
| for another girl? For certain
ly are too proud to accept him
again after the way he has
treated you. Let him alone. If
he did it once he will do so
again. And you should have
more pride than let him use you
as a convenience. The best thing
to do is go find another beau,
one or two Or three, and enjoy
yourself while you are young
and life is before you. Do not
settle down to one beau, at your
age. Be young, gather the roses
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