The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-13
Home Dates
DESCRIBED BY
Young Folk
RY MARTHA LEE

Wnlle We re all SO DuSy AdhAAAS bLAC
young folks and their methods Of
procedure over the Goals, let us
look TO those young people (and
there are plenty of them who hear
plenty Of preaching about what
they should do, but who never re-
ceive anything more substantial
than advice.
There are quite a number OF girls
in our own town, who have come
here from smaller towns to work.
They room out. Their lives consist
of getting up in the morning,
spending the day at store or office,
eating their meals and returning at
night to the same old room.
Occasionally they have dates.
That means a movie or some other
place of public amusement. Hav-
ing no home it's rather hard for
them to do anything else.
Sometimes, as things are, these
girls fall in love. And then the
real problem is confronted. Where
to spend an evening. Where to go
To be able to sit and talk for
while. Where to go to be together
where it will not always be costing
money. These are the problems
young people such as these must
meet.
Become DeceitfuI
Right in the same class with these
girls are the girls whose parents
will not allow them any more priv
ilege in their homes than if they
were servants or boarders.
Just because the parents do not
approve of dates" and hoy
friends is no sign the girls are not
going to have them. They are, and
because of the ban the parents have
placed on the natural development
of friendships between their daugh-
tiers and boys their own ages those,
parents are throwing their children
intoAthe way of needless and cruel
temptation.
They are making them deceitful
and untrustworthy. They are throw
ing up barrier that never will be
destroyed completely. They are
making their own children seek adj
vice and confidence among stran-
gers.
Just because parents dislike to see
their children grow into men and
women is no sign they can deter
that time by putting up silly bars
and rules that nature couldn't OBJ
serve if she would.
Permission Refused
1t is so much wiser for mother
and father to accept the growth of
the children as something good and
normal and natural, instead of
making those children believe they
are breaking all rules of nature by
not remaining at an age where they
can be tucked safely i'll bed at Z,
after they have had their porridge
and milk
Dear Miss Lee-I am in high school.
am IS and rather tall for my age. I am
the only child. and do you know. in spite
of the fact that I am continuously out
growing my clothes I can not convince my
parents that I have reached the age of
reason.
I might as well not have home for
all the good it does me. I have asked and
begged to be allowed to bring my friends
to the house. but they object. I have
pleaded for permission to have dates with
the boys in my class. but have been re-
fused. Now all the other girls can have
dates. am not boy crazy, just like to
be with all the other kids.
But how can I. II I 20 with them it
will get back to my parents. who have
forbidden dates. So 1 have to sneak
around like thief in order to have a
date.
do not like to be so secretive. 1t
makes things look so sort of shady, when
they wouldn't have to be at all. What
can do? SWEET SIXTEEN.
Too Young for Dates
In the eyes of your parents you
are too young to be having dates.
But since you have the inclination,
and the inclination is instigated by
a wholesome desire to be with
young people, they might as well
face the facts and stop making you
appear cheap, even in your own
eyes.
A compromise would be to allow
you to have your friends at your
own home. Since they do not think
you are old enough to be out of their
sight, the least they can do is al
low you a little supervised diver
Sions.
Parents such as yours make your
position in your homes as unsatis-
factory as though you were board
ers.