Then try and make Allie understand how unbecoming and
unlovable jealousy is, and how it renders a man or woman an object of
pity and ridicule to others.
Praise the people you know who are liberal and broad, and absolutely
ignore her moods when in school.
Perhaps in time you can do a little toward awakening her mind to a more
wholesome outlook.
What you tell me of her hysterical devotion to one of her classmates,
makes me realize that the girl needs careful guidance.
You should talk to her mother, and warn her against encouraging such
conditions of mind in her child.
Urge her to keep the girl occupied, and to give her much out-door life,
and to teach her that pronounced demonstrations of affection are not
good form between young girls. The mother should be careful what books
she reads, and should see that she makes no long visits to other homes
and receives no guests for a continued time. The child needs to
cultivate universal love, not individual devotion.
Ideals, principles, ambitions, should be given the girl, not close
companions, for her nature is like a rank, weedy flower that needs
refining and cultivating into a perfected blossom.
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