Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-29

pLlsey ISL ! Az 1tlstt . the ptSd@dnL
thing about growing,-it Is very un-
comfortable sometimes while it is
going on, but when that particular
bit of painfuluess is over, you have
something valuable to show for IT.
Trist your best instincts always,
Margie, and you can't go very IA
wrong.
Yours.
Mar G.
Billy dear:
Somebody told me that you had a
desperate crush on somebods. i5eing
terribly In love ~ a very trying &C.
I~cupation especially IL il IS being very,
very terribly IL love. II is much
~pleasanter to be just a little bit in
love.
You know 1t Is very elderly and
wise to say that the boy you care
for at fifteen isn'r often the man you
would car for al thirty. And my
dear, you don't stay sixteen very
longl Let me tell you a way 10 keep
things goiH happily at home while
you are painfully absorbed in being
in love.
First, don't see him too often.
He'll like you all the better il he
doesn't know you too well. 1t Is just
as well to have a good many little
surprises of your delightful person
atty and your interesting mind in
store for Jack. We women have to
keep EN- guessing" you know. and
We can't IL they see US too much.
and learn all our vocabularies and all
the thoughts of u minds, which
aren't any too many, as 1t is.
Then while you are waiting for
Jack to grow up and finish college
and get a good enough job to enable
him to get a thousand dollars ahead
SO he can afford to marry you, you
can be learning the intricate business
OF preparing to be a poor mans wife.
OF course some day Jack will be rich,
but that will be a good many years
hence, and of course there are even
delightful and lovable Jacks who
never get ricn at all. though delight
full.
So you can practice housekeeping,
your mother will be kind and pa
tient and let you try your hand at
cooking and marketing and keeping
accounts. and she will teach you to
run your house on a strictly cash
basis, because OF curse a girl who is
used to charging her own clothes
at expensive shops has to learn what
1t means to dress on an actual sum
OF, say $500 a year. When she has
to buy shoes and the countless little
necessaries, there isn't much left for
French hats and imported dresses,
even marked down."
So then you can be learning to
sew, and when Jack comes to call,
al he probably will every Friday
night and Sunday afternoon, you can
wear your new dress, and say proudly
DO you like It? l made it myself"
Then If Jack is the right sort he will.
say, TITS a nailer," or something
else just as appropriate, and in his
heart he will say, There's a girl
worth waiting for"
So you can manage to learn quite
a lot while Jack is getting ready ito
take you over" It's a pretty heavy
responsibility for Jack, you see. since
he's never had to support anyone
yet, and you've had pretty much
everything you wanted. Just think
of Jacks side of 1t, and you'll be
willing to put In those years in train
ing for your job of running a home
on an amount of money that you
and Jack can afford. 1t won't seem
like very much to either of you
once it gets goingl
And Of course, there Is high schoo'
yet. Jack is going to college. and he
won't want to marry an Ignorant
stupid little person who loved" him
SO much that she wasn't able to dc
her school work.
You get the drift. don't you. Billy?
/ want you to succeed in your life,
I want you to be happy, and to give
happiness to all about you who are
dependent on you for 1t. They really
have a right to it.
/ shall be SO glad to know that you
have grown up" to the point where
you IN willing to have a plan for
your life.
With very tender love and SYM
pathy. too,