An Interrupted Wedding, or Marion Marlowe as Maid of Honor — page 29: what you’re looking at

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Miss Shirley will have As all letters are answered only through So many letters are being received by Miss Shirley requiring answers in this department that we shall have to ask our correspondents to limit their letters to 200 words, in order that ‘all may Having read your papers and seen your column of ‘Questions Answered,’’ we (two boy friends) thought we would write you and ask your advice, as you seem to have given it so willingly to others. The trouble ts we both love the same girl, but we do not know which one the girl loves, as she continually puts us both off. We are eighteen and nineteen years old, respectively, and are both very well to do. Now, we both want to marry this girl and each one is willing to give her up for the other. tell us what to do. , Miss. rH. B. Since the young lady treats you both With indiffer- ence, we do not see that you have reason to think that she loves either one of you. You are both too young to think of marriage, and we would advise you to give up all thought of winning this girl's love for at least a few years. By that time it is probable that you will not both be in love with the same girl. No young man should marry until he has finished his education and become established in business so that he can provide his wife with a com- fortable home. I have been a constant reader of “‘‘My Queen” series and think Marion is one of the best girls that I have ever read about. I wish that I could be like her, but | suppose that will never be, as 1 am what they call too stiff with the young men. A young man whom I have known for a long time asked me to go to several places of amusement, but I de- clined, as I did not care for him at that time. I led him to belleve that I was engaged. When we meet on the street he just speaks and passes by. I think that I could love him now, for 1 know that he loves ‘me. How am I to let him know that 1 am not en- gaged? ‘el @ PE Being “too stiff with the men” is not a bad fault. When the right man comes along, we do not imagine that he will find you too stiff. We do not under- stand why you should give a man the impression that you are engaged when you were not. The only way for you to correct the false impression you gave is to tell him the facts frankly but delicately. You could then ask the gentleman to call upon you some special evening, which would give you an ex- cellent opportunity to straighten out matters, +e oe the drinking habit. have been married twice, because of am forty- Whenever Will T have a husband who has He is always in a galoon, I eighteen years and have left him this habit, but it didn't do any good, I one years old, and we have no children, I talk to him of his drinking he gets angry. you please advise me how I can induce him to stop drinking and stay at home with me? Mra. <. L. Minneapolis, Minn. The drinking habit, when it has become thor- oughly established, is one of the hardest to cure. Perhaps you can appeal to his affection for you and ‘» induce him to give it up. If he thinks more of Now, please, i Ws. be answered. STREET & SMITH. his liquor than he does of you, we would not think that you would be anxious to return to him after you had once separated. Perhaps you can persuade him to take one of the courses of medical treatment which are sometimes quite successful with inebriates. It is very fortu- nate that you have no children to inherit this vice, and fog that at least you may be thankful. I have seen thirty summers and am handsome, but never cared for any one until three years ago, and then I fell in love with a fellow ten years younger than myself, and he with me. We have tried not to love one another, but it is impossible. Do you think it wise for me to marry him? I know I shail never care for any one else. Do you think he would al- ways care for me? Please tell me what to do. —, oO. HiITtTiEe B. You are confronted by a very serious problem. It is a doubtful experiment to marry a man so much younger than yourself. The marriage might turn out very happily, indeed, but the chances are against it. IT am desperately in love with a charming, dark- eyed lady about my height, but during the Christ- mas holidays she Was seen kissing a young fellow as she was leaving a country pice where she had been visiting. Would you give her up if you were I or overlook the misdemeanor? Roy § Are. you sure that it was a misdemeanor? Per- haps, the young lady had a perfect right to kiss the gentleman. We advise you to be sure of this before you condemn her. We should like very much to hear the young lady's side of the story. Perhaps you will aid me in one of the most mo- mentous questions of my life. I am only a plain country girl of twenty and lately came to this city to earn my living, and have met just the loveliest man, He is so handsome and I love him so much that T think I would die if anything should separate us. He has never told me that he loved me, but the other evening he kissed me and tried to in me, I would not let him, but it nearly broke my heart to have to repulse him. Was I right in not letting him do as he wanted to? Should IT let him see that I care for him before he tells me that he loves me, or shall I take that for granted? Would he want to kiss me If he did not love me? I am afraid that I will do something that will seem unmaidenly to him, and then IT am afraid that I will drive him away by my coldness. RwHopa L. Buffalo, N. Y. We do not think you need to fear driving the young man away by coldness. On the contrary, we have no doubt that it will make him think more of you. There is no harm in a friendly Kiss, but we do not advise any girl to be too free with her kisses... Perhaps a little more waiting will achieve the de- EOMIGhooks com