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Some examples of real replies from Agony Aunts in the past.
Is it proper for a strange gentleman to commence a conversation with a lady he does not know in an omnibus? Mary
No gentleman would take such a liberty with a lady whose conduct showed she respected herself. Contemptuous silence is the best reproof for such impertinence
'Two Young Girls' ask, Is there any harm in a young lady permitting a gentleman whom she met at the seashore, and to whom she has not been formally introduced, to see her home?
My dears, there are few graver follies committed by the thoughtless and heedless than forming the acquaintance of strangers in the way you describe.
Unfortunately, men are not labelled, informing the world at large, women in particular, of their calling.
The handsome, debonair, well-dressed, agreeable young man may be the daring thief who broke into your house last year; or the highwayman who held up your next door neighbour only the month before, leaving him for dead on the pavement from a blow from a concealed, murderous pair of brass knuckles which he usually carries with him.
Or he may be an escaped madman who has just broken his way out of some insane asylum.
The girl who will flirt and talk to a stranger, honourable young men shun if they are looking for a wife. Remember that. Girl's Companion, 1908
My chum and I are always arguing on this matter. Should a girl let any boy with whom she goes out walking kiss her and embrace her as a lover?
Certainly not! No, my dear girl, don't let any boy kiss you. I don't mean that you should be stiff with your boyfriends, but you can be a perfectly good pal without any silly nonsense of that description. The Happy Home, 1920
I am madly in love with the boy who works in the next office to mine. He smiles at me whenever we pass in the corridor, and the girls say he is always talking about me. The trouble is that we are both too shy to speak. I eat my lunch in the office, and I know he stays in his room reading a book all through the lunch-hour. How can I get to know him better?
Couldn't be easier, as far as I can see. That boy probably stays in deliberately in the hope of seeing you.
I suggest that tomorrow you take some tinned food to the office for your lunch and of course you will forget to take a tin-opener. Boys love to be asked to open tins, and here's the chance for you to ask a favour of the boy you like.
If you think tinned food is a bit silly, take along a bottle of salad cream. Those lids always get stuck and your boy will thoroughly enjoy ruining the office door jambe.
wonder if you will think me very wicked when I tell you that though I am a married woman, I do not love my husband and I am not living with him? We married too young. I was 18 and he 20 and I soon found that he was not the man for me. Soon after, I met another man and though we have never been sweethearts yet, we have confessed our love. Is it my duty to live with a man I do not love, when all my heart belongs to another? Do you think I am acting wickedly and ought I to go back to the man I married? 'Hester'
Not wicked, Hester, but foolish and weak, dear. We cannot break away from our sacred promises.
When you took that man for your husband, you undertook certain duties that you are morally bound to fulfil to help him, to comfort him, to cherish him, to make a home for him, to lead him towards a better land.
Your married life has disappointed you. Well, often things we buy turn out quite different from what we hope they will, but we cannot cast them away and have our money back. Home Companion, 1918
This is my personal favourite
My wife seems to think that I ought to help her in the evenings. I work very hard all day and she has only a tiny flat to look after. She always has the day' s washing-up to do and the place is never cosy or tidy. What attitude should I take up? 'Disgruntled'
Your wife has no right to expect help from you at all; you do your share by earning the living. I expect she's just thoughtless or perhaps knows nothing about running a home, and consequently gets into a hopeless muddle.
Could you get her to write to me so that I could plan her day for her, leaving her with plenty of leisure to spend with you in the evening? Weldon's Bazaar, 1936
MT jnr
lochsong
Feeling our age are we MT?
I married my soul mate so am very lucky in that respect.
(that don't mean we don't fight like cats and dogs sometimes though)
Darren
Boys love to be asked to open tins
Papa 3
Darren wrote:
Boys love to be asked to open tins
They prefer to be asked to put it tin
johne5knuckle
Re: Those were the days...............
MT VESSELS wrote:
If you think tinned food is a bit silly, take along a bottle of salad cream.
So true. You just never know when you will need that handy bottle of salad cream - although, just for the modern touch, I prefer to keep a jar of mayonnaise about my person.
Obviously, if you REALLY want to be organised, best to take a selection of condiments to cover a multitude of awkward social situations.
You pass a young woman whose car has a flat tyre - you can just whip out the HP and...
