The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-10
ADVICE TO GIRLS

Dear Annie Laurle-I am 16 years
old, and have no parents, but live with
grandparents who do nothing but give
me calldowns In the morning and night
when | come home from work. / want
TO leave home and board, but they say
they can make me come home again
as ! am too young. II they see me
| speak TO boy at the carnival they
keep me In for a week and tell me to
| get decent boy l went with decent
| boy. / went with decent boy about
six times, and my grandmother would
| follow me around everywhere / went
She turns every girl and boy friend
against me. Please tell me II | am Of
age to go board anywhere 1 please.
DOWN HEARTED.
Down Hearted-You are too young to
leave home. Perhaps you act In such
way that your grandmother must look
after you. Why not talk things over
with her and find out which OF your
boy or girl@friends she would like you
to go with? l think she will be rea-
sonable II you try TO do your part.
There are two sides TO this.
Dear Annie Laurie--I am n girl II
years OF age, and am deeply In love
with q young man OF Fl. My step
mother has done everything to keep us
apart, but We have managed to see
each other secretly.
We love each othe- dearly, 40 we have
decided to elope. Please tell me, dear
Annie Laurie, what is the best thing
TO do. We are both truly miserable.
DISTRESSED.
Distressed--YoL will be Inviting far
more distress than you now dream of,
my dear, II you elope. You are too
young for marriage, especially for such
an unfortunate beginning OF your mar
rled life as an elopement would mean.
II this young man loves you he will be
willing to walt for you. Meantime he
AAtw a.
mothers objection to- him.
Dear Annie Laurie--I am q young
man 20 years old, and have been going
with a girl for five years. She Is now
trying to get me to marry her. l really
but hate to quit her. because she loves
me so well.
What would you dor cannot be-
come engaged to her. have been go
ing with another girl for a year.
one. but we don't go with each other
now, want to make up with her, and
think she does WITH me, but / don't
know. what to do. She hardly ever goes
anywhere. and I do the same. When
]. see her ! can hardly stand It because
I'm. not with her. Please tell me what
to do.
A BROKEN HEARTED LOVER.
A Broken Hearted Lover-I fear, my
boy, that you have not treated either
been anxious not to break their hearts,
have you? You have taken five of the
best years of the first girls life, and
now you are afraid to be frank with
her. and see no other way out OF your
dilemma. You also seem to have treated
the second one badly, yet you are filled
your mind to play fair by being
STRAIGHTFORWARD with both girls.
Dear Annie Laurle--Please find en-
closed letter / received from a girl I
love very much. We had an argument
about what is in last paragraph. She
doesn't really mean anything Of the
sort, ! am sure.
Please tell me what to do. think
HEART BROKEN FRANK.
Mr.. Frank-Please do not call to see
me any more as l do not care to see
you any more.
Please try to forgive and forget me,
as there are plenty of other girls who
could like you MS much MS you liked me.
You remember I told you Sunday
well. am more than convinced that
am going to be one now more than ever
before. Please try and forget me. Do
not write to me,
Heart Broken Frank-Yes, I think
she does care, Frank, and believe that
she will welcome a little note Just the
same after she has recovered from
whatever II was that offended her. so
don't be discouraged. Write.
(Annic Laurie will welcome letters OF
inquiry on subjects of feminine interest
from young women readers of this paper
and VIII reply to them In these columns.
Letters to Miss Laurie should be ad-
dressed to her. care this office.