YOUNG TOO YOUNG!
If you're young, too-read this article by a young woman with a will of her own. You'll agree with her..
And if you're not so young, read it all the same. There may be something in what this girl
says:
OU'RE too
young to leave
Wickham Steed, the well-known Y School You'll only be sorry. publicist, Mr. A. M. Wall, secretary later on when you realise that of the London Trades Council, and school days were the best days of
your life."
Sir Arthur Haworth. Sir Norman Angell had been announced as one of the speakers, but he was pre- vented from travelling to Manches- ter by a breakdown in health.
Lord Cecil, in a letter to the Lord Mayor wishing success for meeting, wrote:
But I knew my father was wrong.
Killing me
with the
cry of
“Young!"
I went to an old friend of my mother who had a big business in London. He gave me a trial on his own staff. I got a room in a hos- tel.
he kept unsuitable.”
be most
I gave up protesting that I loved Bill and that I did know my own mind and promised to return the ring.
I gave Bill back his ring next day -and. we were married three weeks later!
Again came the string of protest- ing letters, and Aunt did cut me out of her will.
were,
But when they met Bill and saw how ridiculously happy we they began to think it wasn't such a bad idea after all.
Staying at school which, in- cidentally, I still look back upon as
Believe me, the things you hear the most objectionable days of my
And soon, to hear them talk, the life-seemed a terrible waste of about hostel life being lonely and
time when I knew so clearly what I dull is all rubbish. I was earning you'd think they had planned the wanted to do next...
very little money, but I had a grand whole marriage themselves! time, and made some splendid That was until I told mother one friends.
day that I was going to have
There is no doubt that the dan ger is pressing Europe
I
my own way then, but have never been allowed to forget. it.
be drifting nearer and nearer
At first my parents sent me many Anyone would have thought Ta war It may not come this yea or
reproachful letters.. Then they suggested a solo flight across the next; but unless we can arrest the If ever get into a scrape OF
heard how well I was getting on Atlantic! - present tendency it is bound to make a wrong decision, I'm always and how I had had an increase in
I hope told "If you had spent another salary.. come sooner or later. your audience will realise that this year at school this would never is not an occasion for empty talk have tr
but for strenuous
King
midable, and can
the peoples
peace are
forces
for
ated
are
efforts and endure all which are necessary to attam it.
fices
After I had completed my train- ing at a secretarial college I au- nounced that I was going to Lon- don to get a job and prove my use fulness.
They made a special journey to town to visit the head of the hos- tel and after that began to change their tone..
I couldn't have a baby---I was much too young. Why, I was only a baby myself!
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But Bill the second is a lovely, healthy, happy baby. He has not stolen my youth. Nor has he ruin- Perhaps I wasn't going to the ed my health. dogs after all!
When Baby Bill was arly They began to boast proudly and year old I decided that finances lovingly to their friends: "Yes, were getting rocky, and that it was What a storm that brought down Molly is working in London now, up to me to do something about it. She has a very responsible job. And So I went out to find another job. she lives in such a nice club".
In the field of business, too, peo- The next fight came when I wrote ple seem to refuse to take Youth and told mummy and daddy that I seriously. nor was engaged to Bill, and was bring-
ing him home the next week-end.
They arrived by car that even-
I was too young to earn my owa living.
The Lord Mayor said the meet- ing was one of plain people of all parties and of none, and it was call-on my head! ed to give them an opportunity of hearing the plain truth upon the international position and offer them a chance of doing something It was neither: necessary that may improve the outlook. It "nice" was an attempt to tell the peoples there need be no war if they rous What would Aunt, say when she
*Wickham
and set out on the heard I was alone in London? And ing. And with them came an aunt
ve adventure what would the neighbours say ?-
and an uncle.
call of Manchester, Did I know the wicked place My mother tearfully insisted that be the call London was the awful things that I should go back with them that
the Brit happened to young girls alone night. Laltimately there?
Then father announced one morn- sensummoned ing "T'll have no more of
this ing to the nonsense!"
the heads
Jord may
ought
did not
So I ran away.
ould rest firmly against the abominable stu- res pidity of the war method of settling of the differences between peoples."
Why was $400,000,000 to be bor complained rowed for armaments? Here the that the present National Govern Government had not been frank ment had not been at any, pains to with us. It told us in the autumn tell us the full truth, as it knew it of 1934 there was no need to Not long ago. Mr. Duff Cooper said because we still had considera
Germany im it ought to be the duty of Ministers superiority over to frighten the people out of their air. It repeated that statement in
bril 1935, 1 wits. He might be right. Why did February, 1935. they not do it? Other Ministers began to admit that perhaps it had
been mistaken had said we were approaching cat-
astrophe, and Lord Rothermere now yet been told what the told us that Great Britain was to knew of Germany's
ations and strength concede land to Germany to
we shall
itary:
M Ste
hatever prop /mass butchery to
Hitler, What had we got to
him for Had we to fear hig
teous wrath? We happened to
citizens of a country which
and again had sent out a message of freedom and liberation to the earth
end
fair and ho be obtained on and.
Our message to the
day, he
of the
„devil, provided we
No,
the world
keep out
I received the reply that they wanted someone older and more responsible.
Yet when added five years to my age and wore mother's hat landed a job the same day!
And I've held it down, too.
That's my grouse
How do you expect us to develop “You're far too young to think of into useful, responsible citizens if marrying for years yet," she said. you try to convince us that all our "You don't realise what parriage decisions are wrong ones means. You're not old enough to we don't know our own minds? know your own mind, darling.”
because
"You're too young, you Aunt threatened to cut me out of "Too young for a responsible job.” her will; Uncle vowed he would do "Too young to marry. the same.
to have a baby."
See
young man,"It's all-rubbish!
young
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