Marion Marlowe's Cleverness, or, Exposing a Bold Fraud — page 31: what you’re looking at

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‘ © coward! We have not spoken to each other since. JTawait your answer. Emma G.,”’ If the conductor deserved a reprimand, it was your escort who should have given it. We do not understand how he ever refrained, and if he was an able-bodied man, we are at a loss to under. stand how he could resist the temptation of punctuating his sentences. There are many con. ductors who are worse than brutes, but men, both brave and otherwise, seem to dread having words, particularly if they have a lady with them. Z . “Tam engaged to one of the dearest fellows on earth and think the world of him, but he makes us both unhappy, because of his jealousy. He has no reason for feeling as he does, but he is so jeal- ous of me that he cannot bear to see me chatting with another man, even. Can you suggest some way in which I can secure his confidence? I would do anything I could to convince him that he is worrying unnecessarily, and to end this cause of frequent unhappy hours. MABeEu G.”’ _ Your lover seems to be more unreasonably jealous than the majority of mankind. Such a disposition as you describe is a most unhappy ‘one, Reason with him, and endeavor to convince him that he is indulging in foolish fancies. Tell 4 ne really prefer or would prefer if he did not make you unhappy with his insane notions. Preserve ‘your own self-respect, at all cost, and do not let any jealous feeling that has no cause for its being cause you any uneasiness. tte “May I take the liberty of adding my ‘tale of woe’ to the list in your Correspondence Depart- ment? I am twenty years old, and have saved five hundred dollars out of my salary as a cloak model forthe past five years. A few months ago I be-. _ fame engaged to a young man who has no Money, and now he wishes me to loan him mine _ 80 he can go into business. If I was sure he would make a success of his business I would not mind loaning it to him, but it would almost break my heart if he should lose it. Kindly tell me what you would do if you were in my place. 2 OT Gee?” We advise you to keep your money in the sav- ings bank. Do not loan your earnings to any one, and so put yourself in the same position. which you were before you saved it. A man who respects himself will not ask a woman to marry him when he is penniless, and to expect her to help him is “adding insult to injury.” No doubt the young man’s salary in the past five years has been as large as yours, and there is no reason why he should benefit by your frugal habits. If you had been married and your husband had Supported you for years, and then lost his position or money through circumstances which he could hot control, the case would be different. As it is, Wwe advise you by all means to keep possession of your little hoard and let him “hoe his own row” yefore you marry him. — ‘- é ‘. J \ Patt 4 i« - ” ~ Na Tos ee 7 s anil MY QUEEN. him that while you may enjoy talking with other | m | erage that it is his society that you — 29 ‘Please tell me if I am foolish in the following matter: I have been to several matinees lately, seeing the same play each time, and I am com- pletely. carried away by a handsome actor, Every time he makes love to the heroine of the play I can feel my heart beat faster, and sometimes when he is facing me I feel that I must call out to him and tell him how much I admire him and his acting. Do you think I am to blame for feel- ing this way? Is my. nature too susceptible, or do you think I really love him? AGNES B.”? We are sorry to say that the ‘‘Matinee Hero” is a popular idol, that is, among the feminine portion of the populace. Impressionable girls who cannot see beneath the glamor of footlights and tinsel *are always seeing their ideals in the hero of the drama. But because an actor has been trained to make pretty speeches in a musi- cal voice this does not mean that he is always an honorable man,a good fellow or a gentleman. We would advise you to discontinue your visits to this particular theatre and turn your attention to some of the real characters whom you meet in daily life whose lovemaking will be spontaneous and not performed on a salary. The average actor does not make a very good husband, so if your ‘obiect”’ is ‘“matrimony,’’it will be wise for you to look elsewhere. n “Do you think that a woman is happier mar- ried than single? I am twenty-three years old and am ‘about as contented as the majority of people. One of my best friends,a man nearly ten years my senior, wants me to marry him and in- sists that I will be much happier when I am his wife. There has been no engagement between “us, and I have never thought that I loved him, although I do esteem him very highly. It seems to me that we are better off as we are, but he in- sists that marriage would be a benefit to us both. Please Jet me have a few words of advice from you. PAULA P. J,” If you will look about you at the many un- happy married couples of your acquaintance you will have abundant proof that marriage in itself does not bring happiness. Close association with another personis not a pleasure unless that other person is indispensible to your existence. It is quite true that there is no state so happy as that of being in close relations with the individual we love and who loves’ us, but such marriages are few and far between. The performance of the marriage contract should be the result of mutually happy compan- ionship, and not the first step towards it. You are a wise young woman to desire to remain as you are, rather than try such a serious experi- ment. Ill-considered marriages are the most prolific source of sin and misery, and the mismated couples and their offspring are a curse to society when they should be a benefit. , A self-respecting old maid is of far more value to the community than an unhappy, discontented wife. Do not think of marriage until you ardently desire it yourself, and do not let the persuasion Go DOO) AUC Sn(CO)