Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-23
Please Tell Me
What to DO
Follow Parents, Advice
BY CYNTHIA


Dear Cynthia am young girl in
my late teens. ! am considered very
pretty by every one. | am Jolly. can
voice. | have many. many friends. both
boys and girls | so to high school and
viii graduate in June. OF course this
is where most of my friends are.
Now, Cynthia. this is the most i'm
portant thing in my letter. There is
young man for whom I care very much
7 have ever since met him. He
is four years my senior. very nice
looking and perfect gentleman. He
wants me to marry him. We love each
other and We don't care what any one
says or does. We keep steady company
lonly recently in our way. lie goes
around just bit with other girls and
so do | with the boys. We are doiug
this to throw people off.
My father is very strict and docs
not allow me to go around with boys
at all. Mother knows my friends and
likes him very much, but she has to do
as father says. so you see it is impos-
sible for us to be married very soon.
/ asked him to wait for about three
years, but he became angry and said
| didn't care. Now. he understands
what | mean. but is still very anxious
to marry. His mother and father want
us to be married now. but, don't
know what to do. My father would dis
own me, | know. What shall do?
Now, Cynthia dear. can you advise
me any on this subject? Also can any
of your readers cnlghten me? What
shall | do?
TROUBLED VIVIAN u.
Follow your mothers advice. You
are still in your teens. 1t will Ger
tainly hurt neither you nor the young
man to wait until you are of age. Then
if you still love each other it will be
time enough TO oppose your father. It's
always well to be sure that father has
not n good reason for his opposition.
To Be Popular
Dear Cynthia-Does a girl have to
so through high school TO be popular
with the boys? Does girl have to be
so called perfect TO be liked by most
old and young?
And docs she have to be well dressed
and in expensive clothing?
AS for the matter of love. think
love is the best. much better than
money. but love will not buy every
necessary thing. Both are necessary TO
happiness. | wish the best OF luck to
those fellows who want to find the So
called old fashioned girl.
PIGTAILS.
As no one is perfect. even socalled,
as you express it. it is not necessary to
be so. to be liked. An education is not
necessary to make one popular. but it
is always an asset.
A girl should always be well dressed
il possible, but she need not buy ex-
pensive materials. Very pretty dainty,
things may be made at small cost even
in these days of the high cost of living.
She's Neutral
Dear Cynthia--Thank you so much
for printing my sentiments about slap
ping. ] admit they are pretty stiff. but
they still hold good And since you
were so kind about that first letter /
am venturing again.
To Little Doc: Yes, Little Doc"
I'm sorry to say that you arc right.
Girls are cheats. But are they more
so than the boys? Well. I'm dubious
about that. How about the white lies
and Misrepresentation the male sex
seem so prone to? Ever think about
that?
And anyhow. whose fault is it that
girls don't play fair? Why. from the
time they are able to walk they are
taught that their sex gives them license
which in a boy. is condemned as weak
ness. 1t isn't all the girls fault, you
know; they are born that way. And