Too old for dolls, too young for romance, but just the right age for some tough love:
Cynthia Grey’s Advice to Jealous Miss.
I am a girl of 13, and am in love with a young man of 18. He goes with another girl and I am very jealous. He does not seem to care anything about me. Advise me how to win him.—B. C.
My advice to you is to go play with your dolls and stop thinking of such foolishness. You are only a child and ought not to be interested in such things at all. Read good books and devote yourself to your studies and your play, for several years yet, if you want to grow up into a sensible, likeable young woman.
– The Day Book, January 18, 1912
Madame Palatine couldn’t have said it better herself.
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