Marion Marlowe in Washington, or, Meeting the President — page 28: 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 be answered. “T have a step-father who abuses me shame- fully, not by beating me, but by cruel words. I also havea lover who knows how I am treated, and tells me it will not be for long. He has plenty to keep a home on, and intends to marry me sooner or later, but I think he is almost afraid because Iam so young. I am fifteen and he is twenty-five years old. But I feel that I cannot stand my father’s treatment much longer, although he dresses me in the latest and best of style. I also have a grand home, but am very unhappy. Please advise me. MartTHa H.”? You are very young to marry and your lover is wise to delay for a time. Try to make the best of your trouble at home and wait for a while before you enter into married life. If your lover really understands how unhappy you are, and prom- ises you relief soon,we think you can safely trust — to him and his judgment. “T have read all of your books ‘My Queen,’ and am very much interested in them, but am disappointed in Marion Marlowe, as I think she is inclined to be a flirt. If it was in real life she would certainly be called fickle, for she has been acquainted with all of the gentlemen long enough to have a choice by this time. VERONA,”’ We cannot understand why you should think Marion is a flirt. She has been absolutely honest with all her lovers, and has told them frankly that she has no intention of marrying as yet. Why should she ‘‘make a choice’’ when she has not sought the attentions of any one of the men who admire her, nor encouraged them in their desire for a claim upon her affections? Marion is a straightforward girl who esteems her friends highly, values their friendship and returns it with sincerity, but she has never shown the least disposition to “flirt” with a man or to simulate a feeling which she did not possess. —— “T would kindly ask you if you will please be ao kind as to try to obtain the consent of the party who signed herself ‘Hope L.”’ in your January number, seemingly a young lady, to send me her name and address or have her send it herself, if she will, as I would like to corre. spond with her, Emin A. 5. STREET & SMITH. We are unable to do as you request. The corre- spondence department of ‘‘'My Queen” is not in- tended as a medium through which to make acquaintances. “T have made a bet with the captain of the military society of a three dollar hat and a three dollar pair of shoes. I claim that an advertise- ment that appeared in a French paper last week is not correct as the lady should be named before the gentleman. The captain says the gentleman should be named before the lady. The following is the advertisement, only it is translated into American. “ «Mr, Charles D—— was last night epgaged to Miss M——. The wedding will take place on Sun- day evening, January 6, at the bride’s home.’ “Which of us wins the bet? CHARLES A.”’ In marriage notices the name of the groom precedes that of the bride and the same rule holds good in regard to engagement notices, al- though the latter are in very poor taste, however worded. The captain wins the bet. “J am a girl of sixteen and am called very pretty. I have never had a lover, and do not care anything for the boys. Some of my girl friends vall me an old maid. Do you think I will ever go with the boys and care anything for them or they for me? I don’t like to be called an old maid. Enizanetu R.” Don’t pay any attention to what your girl friends mayeall you. It is just as well that you do not care for the boys now, as you are too young to be spending your time in that way. When you are a few years older, we have no doubt that you will find pleasure in men’s society and they in yours, but there is plenty of time for that. ———_—— “A girl of twenty married a man who she thought passionately and devotedly loved her, but she did not quite want to marry him. After marriage she tried to fulfill her duty in a é way, and then found that she loved him, but t - it was unappreciated, She discovered that if s ae gives him her money for business he will love her, and otherwise he will not, Do you think she Eomichooks com