Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
MARY MEPEDlTHS ADVICE
TO LONELY GIRLS AT HOME

am a girl twenty-one years of
! age. I have been reading your good
advice to other girls, and I often
| wonder why they put you to the
trouble in answering so many fool
ish questions. The very idea of a
girl twenty-seven years old asking
you If there was any harm to sit
in a boys lap. I am not that old
yet, but have a little common sense
| about that And asking if there is
! any harm in kissing. 1 have always
been taught that where there was
not any good there was obliged to
be harm. And all Of we girls ought
to have judgment enough to know
there is no good to come to any one
| by kissing. They seem to think you
can judge and choose their husbands
for them when you have neither
| seen the boy nor girl. If I were
them and couldn't do my own choos-
ing. I would quit thinking and talk
ing about marrying so much.
The very idea of trying to win a
, boys love; if a boy didn't want to
notice me, would let him go ais a
free-will offering. 1t looks all right
for the girls who haven't any mother
to ask advice of you, or some one
else about things that aren't so
foolish
AS to a boy putting his arms
around girl; they can tell which
girl will allow such liberties by be-
ing in their company and can soon
find out whether they are the girls
to trust or not. If those little
twelve-year-old girls had a mother
like I've got, they would get a thresh-
ing out, for talking about sweet
hearts instead of writing for advice
on such matters.
L am only asking you one ques-
ton and that is: Am I right or
wrong?
Please print this in The Journal,
| for want to see it in print.
HAPPY LOUISE.
Answer must admit you to be
right. Yes, kissing is bad; it is a
cheap, vulgar form of amusement;
it skaters the purity and sacred
ness of true love. 1t robs the girl
of her innocence, the boy of his
| reverence and respect for woman
hood. 1t creates distrust, it makes
liars of both sexes; it teaches hypoc-
risy. A man at thirty is disillu-
sioned-his ideals crushed, his belief
in the purity of girlhood destroyed.
A girl, until she's old, an old, old
woman, will always sigh for the
youth she sold so cheaply. In her
heart she suffers. Her faith in man
torn asunder; her trust betrayed,
the temple of her youth and fresh
ness broken, ruined by the deceit
IL VI. -
from this inevitable disaster-don
experiment. Valuation and respect
of ones self is too precious to be
destroyed.
Will you please give ne your ad-
vice. / make old fashion tufted bed
spreads. Pillow throws and window
curtains, all to match. I would like
to get the address of some place l
can sell this work. will make them
any size and will sell them in sets
or by single pieces. I would like to
appoint agents also to take orders
for me and will pay them good
salary. If anyone wants my address
! they can get it from Mary Meredith.
I certainly enjoy her advice to girls.
! Hoping to see this in the tri-weekly,
| I am.
MAE Il.
It pays to advertise-this means
you. You live in a small town or
rural district, perhaps. Therefore
you can insert about four-line "ad'
| in the Atlanta Daily Journal, at
very small cost, advertising your
work, orders taken, You can also
send a sample of your work to the
woman's exchange to be put on ex-
hibition that orders may be given,
or to the Atlanta Woman's club.
/ Write to Mrs. BIN. Boyl-in, pres
! ident of Atlanta Woman's club, At
/ lanta, Ga, in regard to placing your
/ work on exhibition there. Also do
he same thing to the Wor"e ~. club.
in Nashville, Tenn. I think they
have a club thereto Chattanooga.
You must try these places. In the
meantime I will see if I can get
YOUR work placed on exhibition
Write to me again later. Your
work must be good if you expect
to make sales. People like to see
samples of such things before they
give orders for work of this kind
Woman's Exchange, Connally build
ing, Atlanta. Address letter to pres
of ayo11anpo /