The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-20
Serious Turn
Is Taken by
Puppy L0Ue'
BY MARTHA LEE.

This thing we term puppy love
usually is a harmless ailment that
attacks young people between 10 ana
20. But once in a while it takes
on a serious aspect, and then 1T Is
time for parents to do something
Once in very great while IL
really is love. 1t lasts through sep
arations and interferences for years,
finally comes to a logical conclu-
sion, with marriage.
But mostly it is the first object
of young affection for the opposite,
OF course it seems deep and real
because it is the first. But it is
pretty sure to be just false alarm,
And here is where the parents
come in. 1t is their duty to keep
their children interested and alb
sorbd in a number of things during
these rather trying days,
May Ruin Lives
It is their bounden duty to see
that these youngsters are guided
properly and watched over. And
their failure to do this leads to
heart breaking trouble for the par
ents themselves, and broken lives
for the youngsters,
I have letter from mother to-
day who is confronted with this
problem of serious puppy love-"
Dear Martha Lee-I am frantic and
know you can help me. Up until two
months ago. I had an adorable 15-year-
old daughter the pride and glory Of our
home. But something happened. She met
boy IT years old and has fallen COM
pletely under his spell It puzzles me.
She has lost interest in everything but
him Before. she always made very high
grades in school. but this past semteser,
she failed in all her subjects. Her music
has suffered also. She is simply mad about
this boy. and all I can say or do amounts
to nothing.
Tells Her Love Is Law
This youngster drinks heavily and al
ways is thinking of ways to get her out
of the house at night She tells stories
about going out until have lost all con-
fdence in her. He tells her there is but
one law, and that law is love. You can
mantle talk. But you can also see how
miserably fail when I try to talk with
her. He is her god.
could stand it all. but / am afraid of
what will happen before this spell wears
off. What can I do?
A HEART BROKEN MOTHER.
I should imagine it was about
time you did something about it.
OF course you probably have found
out for yourself how useless it is to
try to reason with the child, after
this boy fills her head with all that
taffy.
1t is as useless to forbid her to see
the boy, because she will only lie to
you and see him anyway.
There are three things I can see
to do. One would be to find a
charming boy and have her meet
him and become interested in him
at the same time. If you could do
this, it would start her wondering
whether this first boy was quite all
she thought.
Arouse Her Interest
Second is to find something that
she previously has shown interest in
and arrange to get her interested In
it again. Dancing, painting, col
lecting a library. I don't know, OF
course, what type your child is, but
she must have some sort of hobby.
Play that up to her.
This is the third plan, and best
of all, but it involves some expense,
If you possibly can afford it, take
her away, pronto, to visit some rela-
tive or on a trip or to some new
places, where she will meet new peo-
pie and see new faces, Few OF
these cases will not wear away under
the strain of separation.
If you can not take her, send her
to a girls camp Of she likes out
door sports.) But get going. Do
something. And don't harp at her
about this boy, it will only stir her
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