Marion Marlowe in Indianapolis — page 31: what you’re looking at

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Wah YN yay ) (( ‘Osh ( C2 SP SS? == GRACE SH => aBY — -. Eo ey ae RLEY >= 5 NOTE.—This department is a special feature of tnis publication, and it will be appreciated, we feel sure, by all our readers. {tis conducted by Miss Shirley, whose remarkable ability to answer all questions, no matter how delicate the import, is well known. Readers of ‘“My QUEEN” need not hesitate to write her on any subject. Miss Shirley will have their interests at heart and will never refuse her assistance or sympathy. As all letters are answered only through | _the columns of ‘‘My QUEEN,” it is unnecessary to enclose stamps. “Tam a young girl, twenty years of age, and in love witha young man whom I esteem very much. I am undecided whether he loves me or not. He only calls about once a month, and when questioned last week about not coming he said he hated to spoil my good times as he could not afford to give me any. Please tell me whether this statement is true or whether he loves another? oA, Rowe My dear girl, I wish I could answer your ques- tion, but, unfortunately, I am not able to read the young man’s mind. Other young men have spoken that way and have been perfectly serious. We advise you to tell him that he is quite wel- come to call and let it go at that. If he really cares for you, he will demonstrate the fact in time, but, if he is staying away from a matter of principle, we cannot help admiring him. Waita while and perhaps the truth will be revealed. When he is in better luck he may come out of his shell and make fuller explanations. “T do not like a certain young man who comes to our house, but my mother would like me to go with him. I like another young man whom she does not object to. How would you advise me to get rid of him? B. R.” Judging from your letter, you are very young, too young to be bothering your head very much about young men. A very simple way of getting “rid of a man is to tell him kindly and simply that you do not care for his company. If this is unpleasant to you, why do you not absent your- aelf from the room while he is at the house? Plain, kindly speech is always good policy. “Po you think it is right rot a Ate fifteen rAatT aCe y "10 Airis! years of age to go out nights wit >; eft We do not quite understand your letter, Homer. Where do you go and what kind of girls do you go with, and what kind of a boy are you? A good hoy should be allowed to play with good girls of ) until bedtime, if it is a country village. hia is the eustom in small places where each neighbor knows his neighbor's children. In the different, for parents cannot his age city streets if is STREET & SMITH. know all of the children that their children areto | meet. A boy of fifteen should have no other motive in ‘going out nights with girls’ than this, and his parents should be able to decide the question for him, — ‘“T have been reading ‘My Queen’ and I am deeply interested in Marion Marlowe. I also take great interest in the questions asked and the an- swers you so kindly give, and I beg of you to answer one for me. “T have a gentleman friend who will soon graduate in pharmacy, and I wish to ask your advice on what would be a suitable gift for me to present him? PAULINE J. C.”’ It depends entirely upon the amount you are able to put into a present and the degree of friendship which you feel for the young man. A nice copy of The National Dispensatory — would make a handsome present, but you would first have to aseertain if he already hasone. A mortar and pestle would also be useful, and it would likewise be sentimental, for presumably sweet thoughts of you would thereafter be mixed in all his trituratious. A third suggestion is this; You might purchase nice fat bottles of perfume and have them colored red, blue and green so that the sign of the corner drug store could be duplicated upon his dressing-case. —_—_—_— “You have answered questions for other girls and given advice to them, too, so here I come with my tale of woe. I am in love—at least, I think I am—with two fellows. One is older than the other I don’t love the younger one as well as I did; I can’t tell why, but I don’t. The older one I see every day and he seems to think a great deal of me, and yet Iam not so sure of his affections as of the other's. He—the older—calis me ‘little sweetheart and wife,’ and he is always looking out for my welfare He wants to take me up to see his father and sisters, but he is rather timid about asking my father and really does not want to take me without his consent. Do you think he cares anything about me? He is dark and I ama trifle lighter. The other is of about the same complexion as myself. I think I could he happy as his (the elder’s) wife. But I don't think I could as the ICOM The olds chem Ea Ee —————————————