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30 to always accompany her and, perhaps, she will be more thoughtful in future. Keep your own counsel. Be your own best friend. There is no one who will be truer to you than your own mother, if you have one. Make a confidante and friend of her and you will need no other. Let your girl friends be companions, but not your confidantes and advisers. “Dear Miss Shirley, do not judge me too harshly. I am nineteen years of age and very anxious to ‘take,’ as theterm is. 1 have never had eae call on me, and a very hear and dear friend has told me that I haven’t any idea how many people dislike me. I have written toa lady reputed to be a reader of handwriting. She has told me I am loving and gentle and ought to have plenty of friends and admirers. Which do you think I should believe? I have read your answers and think you are one of the most sen- sible women I ever heard of. ‘Anxious ELIZABETH.” Thank you heartily for your kind words of praise. The fact that you are nineteen and have had no beaux is positively refreshing. It proves that you are a girl of brains and not justa silly little thing with no thoughts other than senti- mental ones. We predict for you a very sweet love affair, indeed, for it will come at a*time when you are well fitted to receive it, and, no doubt, the one love of your life will suffice for all that you have suffered. Cultivate the talents and graces that nature has given you. Be kind and courteous to all and just and upright in your dealings. This will cause you to ‘‘take’’ with the proper persons at the proper time, and no girl, however ambitious, could ask for more. “Kindly advise me by one of your letters what to do in this case. I have been going witha young man for four years, and he never asks me to get married, and he never kisses me. I think itisashame! I think he is keeping me fora fool! Please tell me what to do. PR Re We certainly think you are very foolish to devote four years of your life to such a cold- blooded creature, and would advise you to trans- fer your affections at once, if the thing is possi. ble. Apparently, the gentleman’s affection for you is purely mental, so, if you desire a more material love, one that will put a roof over your head, it will be wise to look about you. Perhaps when he realizes that he isin danger of losing you he will awaken to a sense of his duty in your direction. We hope so, for you deserve a reward for your loyalty under such discouraging condi- tions. ‘‘T am in love with a most charming girl,butas I am wealthy myself and this girlis poor, my yarents wish me to marry some one wealthy, but i feel that if I do not get her I will never be happy. I wish you would advise me,Miss Shirley, as to what way you think would be best, ‘“LAUNCELOT V.”’ We think that the one you loveisthe proper ene for you to marry, provided, of course, that * MY QUEEN. the young lady in question loves you. The fact that she is poor does not make her any less wor. thy of your affection and esteem. Marriages based upon pecuniary foundations are apt to be unsatisfactory. “Tl have read your Correspondence Department for two weeks and also a good many numbers of ‘My Queen,’ and enjoyed them with great inter- est. Will you be kind enough to spare time to give me a little advice? I am in love with one of the sweetest, noblest-hearted girls in the United States. She is good and kind to me and thinks the world of me. ‘‘But she told me frankly she did not expect to marry any one: J am afraid I'll lose her. Won’t you please tell me what to do? L. MeCy” The young lady may not expect to marry, but if she really thinks the world of you she may change her mind. You are not likely to lose her so long as she esteems you so highly. We would advise you to continue her acquaintance upon its present basis and not speak of marriage for some time. If she really caresfor you she will want your society for herself and, possibly, will then become anxious to marry you. If your love affair does not work out itsown salvation in the course of a few months, let us hear from you again. - ‘“‘T am very much interested in ‘My Queen,’ and I read your book regularly. So I think you will help me out. Iam a young manof nineteen; five feet, five inches tall; dark complexion. Am con- sidered good-looking by my friends. Am neither rich nor poor andam a gentleman. | “YT world like to make the acquaintance of a oung girl of seventeen with a loving disposition, Must be good-looking and respectable and about five feet four inches tall. Don’t you think a young man with a good girl friend is better off than With a lot of boy friends? FRED.,”’ We are glad that you enjoy reading ‘“‘My Queen,” but we cannot assist you in your search for a suitable companion. ‘‘My Queen”? is not designed for a matrimonial bureau, and you cer- tainly ought to be able to make acquaintances without our assistance, We think that any man is better for the benefit of women’s society, but we do not believe in any young man of your age confining all his time and attention to any one girl. Go out with your boy friends and bea “‘man among men.”’ It will not make you any less attractive to the fairer sex nor any less worthy of their esteem. “T am in love with a young man, but my lady friend likes him also, He is engaged to me, but I think he likes her better. What would you advise me to do? “Phis young man that T keep company with is very disagreeable at times. I am very jealous of him. He isa Protestant and I am a Catholic, He doesn’t like my religion, and I don't like his. Do you think I would be happy if I were to marry him? I am thirty-four years old and he is the same age. I have been going with him since I was twenty-one. M. V. If the young man prefers your friend’s society to yours and thinks more of her than he does of comiicbooks. co —_ " * . ——— OO — —