The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-16
Martha Lee
Advises
BY MARTHA LEE


Here is an assortment of letters
for individual attention. Read them
over carefully. You probably won't
understand why am printing
them, excepting that they are let
tiers written for the express pur-
pose of running in the column. But
there is one-honeStly.
Dear Martha Lee: I am past eighteen
and feel as though I am a hopeless case.
Ever since I can remember 1 have been
in i'll health. After getting out of school
worked steady for almost a year and
now my health is worse than ever. ANY
kind of work makes a nervous wreck of
me. The worst part of it is my parents
know that every time I work it means a
nervous breakdown and a doctor BILL but
all they do is quarrel with me and tell me
am lazy. because I don't work 1t hurts
me to have them say those things. Would
you advise me to go back to work or take
things easy and be raved at all the time?
MISS PATIENT.
Another:
Dear Miss Lee: I am past eighteen. A
few months ago I met a fellow about
twenty-four. I have gone with many
i
love him. Now. Miss Lee, he is going to
another state in a few weeks and wants
me to go with him. I would do most any
thing to keep him. But am undecided
as I have never been away from home
any length of time and I know none of
his friends in that town. 1 can't bear to
see him leave and still can't decide what
to do. Please advise me. ALMEDA.
And again:
Dear Miss Lee: am nearly eighteen
and have worked in a factory for almost
two years. Now Miss Lee. don't make
very much money and the work is very
hard. I get so disguised sometimes that
I don't know which way to turn next to
make both ends meet. want to learn
some kind of a trade. but I can't decide
what would be the best thing to take up.
have never been interested in being a
stenographer or clerking in a store. What
would you advise me to do? Please help
me out as I Just can't go on If have
to continue working in a dirty factory day
in and day out. MISS DISGUISED.
You really should take up fiction
writing. Your other two letters
could not be printed for reasons
best known to yourself, but of
course I received them. Anyone
who tries five different times, with
five different problems, to make a
column really should get in if for no
other reason than a reward of
perseverance. OF course, knew
these letters were all from the
same person. The style is so SINH
lar in each, few phrases too often
repeated that, even though there
was an attempt to disguise the
hand writing, it is easy to see the
letters were all children of the
same brain.
Had the letters been on the same
subject, had they been less con-
flicting, I should have imagined
them to be from some one sorely
in need Of advice. But since there
is such a divergence of conditions
in each, can see nothing in it but
a desperate attempt to be seen in
print. And so I am printing them,
so that you may see how they look
in a newspaper, but most especially
so that you will stop swelling my
mail with foolishness. I am willing
and happy to offer advice to those
who need it, but can not get par
ticularly doomed up over reading
a lot of blurb. If you are really as
vacillating as your letters indicate,
better start taking lessons in How
to Make Up MY Mind"