Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-17
MARY MEREDITH'S ADVICE
TO LONELY GIRLS AT HOME

I am coming to you for advice. l
am Just in the worst trouble that a
Door girl could be. My rather is very,
very cruel to us children for no
cause in the world as l can see. He
was also cruel to ny mother and has
been over since they married, about
SO years ago. He just quarrels and
abuses us all the time before any
body. He has just got us all to
where we don't want to be around
him. We are afraid to speak to
each other around him because he
scolds us so bad and then he tells
people that we won't talk to him.
My mother died about two years
ago, and left a baby about four
months old and several other small
children in my care, so I took charge
of them and have sure worked faith
full in care for them. 1t seems as
though he wants to get rid of us so
he can marry again and start a new
family.
1 am thinking Of ieaving home and
going to my single brothers. Do you
think the law would give me these
children, and force him to supper;
them. Everybody in the country says
that my father is sure doing wrong.
He does not act with bright sense
Please advise me first what to do
If conditions are as bad as you
say, your elder brother should
take whatever steps are neces-
sary to have your father eX-
amined by competent physicians
to determine his mental fitness
to have the charge of the chill
dren and to find our if physical
illness be, re ;ponsible for his
condition. The law gives the
right to exact such examina-
ton, where there is reason to be-
lieve that a person is not act
ing with bright sense" Except
in such a case l believe the law
would not permit you to take
the children away from your IA
Their Application for mental ex-
animation may Re made to the
ordinary of your county in the
county courthouse.
Some one has written a boy a lot
of letters and signed my name. I
never see him to tell him [ didn't
write them A girl told my cousin
she was there and saw the letters
and he believed [ wrote them. I
never see anybody that would tell
him I didn't write. What can I do
to let him know I did not write them
and find out who wrote them? Isn't
there law that one should not write
and sign another persons name?
Please answer me at once, for I am
anxious to know what to do about
1t? Lovingly yours,
DASIE.
. You should ask your father or
your brother to so to that boy
and tell him that you did not
write the letters, and request
that he turn over to them all
such letters received They will
know what action to take in the
matter.
1 am a lonely girl of sixteen and
am coming to you for advice. l am
IN love with a young boy of seven
teen and love him better than any
boy Oh earth and he says he loves
me better than any girl he ever saw.
He comes to see me every Sunday
afternoon and also through the week,
but as l have no company room l
do not get to talk to him much. only
when my father is away. Some time
N>oO NhAS ivy SOI Ildu DIT me ana
tore up my picture [ gave him. We
We're engaged once but another boy
broke us UP. This boy has asked
me to let him kiss me and I have,
put it was because I loved him so.
Well, there is a boy lives close to
me that wants to come to see me
but [ don't care anything for him.
The boy of seventeen's father and
mother like me. Well, this boy come
to see me one day and this boy that
broke US up came too and when that
boy came my sweetheart left. He
doesn't want me to talk to any other
boy and L won't when he is around
and when 1 do it is just to pass the
time. Please give me advice as I
have no mother. She died when l
was eleven-month's old.
BLUE EYES.
ANSWER-You are much too
young, / think, for love affairs
and marriage. 1t would be bet
ter to have several nice boy
friends who know how to talk
and be friendly with your father
as we'll as yourself instead OF
always wanting to talk to you all
alone. Boys who are always
getting mad at a girl lack
self-control and make poor hus-
bands. Just because you think
you love a boy 80 welI' is no
reason for letting him kiss you
every time he asks you. l would
not, if L were you, kiss any of
them
Here comes another lonely girl to
you for advice. My age is between
nineteen and twenty-three. Please