Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-26
MARY MEREDlTH'S ADVICE
TO LONELY GIRLS AT HOME

Here comes a lonely girl or Id ,Lol
YOUR advice. I have a stepmother
who is awful mean to me. My moth-
err died when / was very small.
can hardly remember her. Papa mar
ried about a year after her death
and I have been under her rule ever
since. Papa believes everything she
tells him. I am in the eighth grade
at school. I have sister older than
7 am. She is IS, and brother H.
L have two half-sisters and one half
brother. They are small and we
larger ones have all the work to do.
She don't do anything but sit up and
make tatting. We have the work TO
do and go to school Papa lets her
do any kind of way she wants to.
She says sister and I are too young
to have boy friends. She thinks it
awful if 7 speak to one. She was IL
when she married daddy. though.
What on earth must l do? / feel
that I can't stand it any longer.
Thanking you for advice, yours truly,
WORRIED ROSE.
Your stepmother is wrong
dUOuI your U6lIS LOo yOdh5 "
have boy friends. 1t is the wis
est and safest plan for parents
to let boys associate with girls
from early childhood, Girls
should be taught how to conduct
themselves as soon as they learn
is essential for the growth Of
purity of mind and the building
of character. And keeping from
one the pleasures or whatever
they desire, makes the desire
more attractive. We should be
whether eating, drinking or
whatever they may be, and with
holding from US the knowledge
of what we seek, makes the de-
sire ten-fold more desirable. BY
installing into the child clean
thoughts, regarding the otheT
sex, and how to control them
selves. is the duty Of every par
ent. 1t is the most natural thing
in the world for girls to want
boys company, and boys to seer
the society of girls. By giving
them wholesome pleasures. and
having a clear understanding OF
the nature Of the child, much O.
the morbid curiosity the young
have, can be lessened and purity
Of thought between the sexes be
established.
I have been reading your good ad-
vice to other girls. I want to ask
you for some good advice. am
girl nineteen years of age. Have
been going with box nineteen years
Of age seven months and we were
engaged to get married in Decem-
Der and we put it off on account of
such hard times. We thought it
would be better to put it off a while
longer. This boy only lives ten miles
from me and he has stopped coming
He calls about once a month. DO
you think he loves me? He always
has an excuse for not calling often
err. He was angry with me the last
time because I would not let him
embrace me. I let him put his arms
around me one time, but l never will
again. [ told him l would not that
if he loved me he would not ask
that of me. And he said that he loved
me better than any one on earth, and
l know I love him. l wrote him
card Christmas and he has never an
swered it. [ haven't asked him why
he never answered it. Shall 1 write
to him and ask him not to be angry
with me?
1t makes him furious if I talk to
any other boy And says if I talk
to any other boy I can't talk to
him. 1 have kissed him = few times
Did I do right, as we are engaged?
Should [ let him alone, or make
friends with him and talk to him
again? I have q lot of boy friends
if I would talk to them. I want you
to tell me what to do. as I love this