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I never go with any girls, I never make a date. I’m never fussing on the squad Or saying “ain’t love great!” I never take one to a dance, The reason’s plain to see. I never go with girls because The girls won’t go with me. --Minneapolis Central High News, 1923 I am…considered not bad looking or a bad dresser. But somehow I just can’t be popular either with boys or girls. I would love to, but I simply can’t. I don’t know what is the matter. All my girl acquaintances always talk about their beaus and dates, but I don’t have any. I’m always by myself.” “All Alone,” “Doris Blake’s Love Answers,” New York Daily News, May 21, 1925 The girl who permits liberties is certainly popular with boys, but her popularity never lasts very long with any one boy. You know the saying, ‘Just a toy to play with, not the kind they choose to grow old and grey with.’ Quoted in Arthur Dean, “A Survey on Petting,” Journal of Education (1929), 414. I am 20 years old, and, to use the slang expression, “hard up for dates.” I am rather small, but have my share of good looks. I am inevitably cheerful, like sports of all kinds and like to talk of them. I am interested in good music…. But—I sit home without the boys. I think one of the reasons is that I am not common enough. I let a boy know it if he gets fresh with me and scratch him off my list. I use cosmetics, but sometimes look pale near some of these “clowns.” However, they get “dates.” “Miss Dateless” to Martha Carr, “In My Opinion,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 31, 1931 Boys, is it fair to make the girls come to a school entertainment unescorted? So far, I have not been to an entertainment without seeing three-fourths of the girls come without escorts. The most disgusting thing is, that the boys act as though they did not realize the predicament they’ve placed the girls in…. I believe the faculty should make a rule that no girls come to the parties unescorted, and that no boy be admitted without a young lady. L.C. in Minneapolis South High Southerner, February 29, 1919 I am a girl seventeen years of age. I have been going with a young man three years my senior, whom I love and admire very much…. Is 11 o’clock too late to arrive home from a show or some other place? Is it all right to allow him to kiss me good night, even though we are not engaged? W.A., “Doris Blake’s Love Answers,” New York Daily News, August 7, 1920 He has declared his love for me also. But he goes to visit other girls and takes them to places and has never yet taken me anywhere. He’s forever praising those girls. All this makes me doubt that he really cares for me. Do you think he does? R.S., “Doris Blake’s Love Answers,” New York Daily News, December 27, 1920 I love this fellow very much and I know he loves me. When we are at a party or at a dance he is always with me, and he always asks to take me home, and I let him. He is very nice, but when he is with a bunch of boys he just says hello and keeps right on going. I would like to know the reason for this (he is very bashful), because I love him. There are other boys whom I can go with, but I don’t seem to take to any but him. “Heartbroken,” “Doris Blake’s Love Answers,” New York Daily News, May 10, 1925 I am a young boy of 16 and am in love with a girl 5 months my junior. So far I have not told the girl anything but have confided in two of my boy friends. One of these boys went back and told her. As a result she was just a bit peeved. “Troubled Nick,” “Doris Blake’s Love Answers,” New York Daily News, February 19, 1925 I love him and I’m sure he likes me, but why on earth does he act so funny? He goes out with other girls and brings them where I can see them. He goes up to my friends’ house and won’t let them come down to my house. He takes one girl out and then asks her if she told me. I go out with others but I don’t care for them. Tell me, is he just trying to make me jealous? “Jealous,” Martha Carr, “In My Opinion,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 31, 1931 The girls I know can be divided into two classes—passionate but dumb and frigid but intelligent…. I believe my desire for love is quite proper in view of the fact that it embodies no sexual relations. I really despise my friends who speak of all girls in terms of their flesh. Yet it seems impossible to find a girl who is both intelligent and human. Quoted in Zachry, Emotion and Conduct, 389-90 Return to top |
