Q Dear Miss Abigail: I just broke up with my boyfriend and I can’t get over him. What should I do? Signed, Crissy A Dear Crissy: My brother has a theory: the amount of time you need to get over someone is as long as you dated. Went out six months? Be prepared to be […]
Tag: 1940s
His Culture is Coming Between Our Courtship
Q Dear Miss Abigail: Oh, Miss Abigail, I need your help! How can I get my foreign man to see: “When in America do as the Americans?” His culture is coming between our courtship! Help! Signed, Plenty of Couscous and Confusi A Dear Couscous: Though you have not stated what the particular problems are, I […]
The Years of Living Dangerously
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I am forty-seven years old and my boyfriend of three months is a youthful sixty-five. Many people doubt our relationship will work because of the age difference, but we do great together. I think his son believes I am just a “gold-digger,” but I am not digging for anything except a […]
Boys, in 500 Words or Less
Q Dear Miss Abigail: What is the best way or sentence to sum up boys between the ages of thirteen and fifteen? Signed, Meg A Dear Meg: Golly gee whiz, Miss Meg. You’re assignment is hard! I couldn’t find just one sentence to answer your question, so I’m going to ramble on a bit. Here […]
Courtship ~ For the Man
Wooing. There is no word greater, as far as I am concerned, in the world of dating and marriage advice. So here it a bit of advice for young men about this delicate art from Margaret Sanger’s 1940 edition of Happiness in Marriage. 1940: Courtship ~ For the Man For the young man, wooing must be […]
Girl Meets Boy. Spider Meets Girl. Boy Likes Girl!
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I’m a fifteen-year-old girl. I am fairly pretty, and I have had boyfriends before. I have a good social life, I get on with men, and I have an interesting personality. Yet I never get approached by men. I just never seem to meet any suitable ones! Is there something else […]
The Nerve!
Q Dear Miss Abigail: What do I say to a girl to make her like me cause I am very shy and I don’t know what to say to a girl if I like her and how do I know if a girl likes me or not? Please help. Signed, Vensky A Dear Vensky: “Open […]
Will I Ever Find Mr. Perfect?
Q Dear Miss Abigail: Will I ever find my Mr. Perfect? Signed, Zeenat A Dear Zeenat: This reminds me of that song ~ “Looking for love in all the wrong places; looking for love in too many places; la la la…” ~ sorry, where was I going with that? Oh, yes. Mr. Perfect. Well, according […]
Tips for the Turned Down
Q Dear Miss Abigail: How come everybody turns me down when I ask them out? Signed, Colin A Dear Colin: You don’t say what you’re approach has been so far, so it’s a bit tricky to pinpoint the problem. For inspiration, I looked through an interesting book “for boys in their teens” titled Birthday Chats with […]
1949: Correct Proportions
Someday I’ll do a comparison of all of the “average” or “ideal” weight charts, by age and height, in all of my books. I just stumbled across another one, a bit surprisingly in the Searchlight Homemaking Guide, revised in 1949 from an earlier 1937 edition published by Household Magazine. The chapter title, nestled among the […]