The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-11
School DAYS
No Time fo1"
Serious LOOe
BY MARTHA LEE

School days are the happIest or
most miserable days Of a child's life.
There is no half way measure.
Somehow there never is a half way
measure with the very young. not in
friendship or happiness or misery.
School is a little world all to it
oif world inside world. for
those youngsters who choose their
rulers and their governors and have
fhcir heroes and their scapegraces.
asst like the other people 20 in the
outside world
And it is q golden time for found
Ing real and lasting friendships It
the time for developing the mind
md soul and Imagination before the
hurry and hustle Of caring a living
has claimed all the waking time
No Times for Serious Love
Now the mistake a great many
1ungsters make is to feel this is
me for serious romance. It is not
ne little affairs between high
@hool classmates can be as charm
uF as a Booth Harrington story,
and as frOthV as merlnguc.
But school time is not the time
~ thes3 heavy love affairs that
-oungsters constantly are finding
themselves involved in It is the
inc when along with mathematical
nd cultural educations boys and
Is learn the fine art Of managing
..her human beings.
Here is a little high school young
r. who is taking her romance all
100 seriously, in spite Of what she
avs:
Dear MS Lee I am uot writing on
-" and death matter. but JUST the same
Is or great Importance 10 me-. met
ov last July : and wrote TO him. Easter
tartcd going with him steady and j. has
been pretty steady c-cr since.
We arc not thaklng Of getting married..
Both ~ MS arc too Young But 7 truly
rink I love him and I guess loves me a
.-.c. tor
Well. 'nu! lately ve never quarrcled al
al! We don fuss now. just tease. but
MISS Ice an horribly afraid VIC VIII
~ot into Bis argument some dav and
.p.l up. NC. OF al least T. resolve not 10
tease any more but when We are together +
vhlcn Us pretty often. ne argue.
Hc seems q Ike 10 tease and argue +
With me-. but he saws re doesn't. What !
~7n. 20 know is do you think an average +
bow Of good disposition likes to tease and
=rslee
When ne are alone go don't but when Uc
arc ln q crowd ] hand and get some pretty .
hut ] am afraid We are going to have a +.
serious argument some time what 40 YOU
think would bc best TO doc WORRIED.
Don't be so foolish, my dear, as
to let these little light heckling
matches worry yCU. They arc in
consequential. and merely the means F
bv which boy friend finds out lust
what kind of disposition his girl
friends possess.
A girl who VIII poCJ and necCme +
angry at the Lass littic smart Crac6 .
proves poor sp1r, &c b. taking
around in a crowd Of young people. .
Don't Be TOUchy
Nothing is more wearing than d
sensitive and 'tO.Chy" disposition.
As long as YOU can hard it back m
the same light Vein in which it is
GIVEN, you have TO need to worry
about a serious quarrel. And don't
take your idea that You love him too
eeTiOusly.
You say then, again. you may not.
- on are far too young % 50 steady.
Vow is the time in your life whejc
rOu will form Invaluable contacts
With people. when your companion .
hip with a number of different per 4
sons will prove so useful when YOU,
get out in the business wCrlI
Take your schooling as 4 time to
learn. and your education will not .
he complete without a knowledge of
how to handle people.