Under Lock and Key; or, Marion Marlowe's Last Role — page 32: what you’re looking at

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Wait patiently, Biddelia, and see if your lover comes back. When the time is up and he has not arrived, you can safely consider that he has ceased to care for you, but, if he does return, what hap- _ piness will be yours! We are sure that it will repay you for yeur weary waiting. a am fifteen years old and am keeping company with a young man who lives in the same building. He is seventeen years old. | have been keeping com- pany with him for four months. of h other. We have had several quarrels and he Raa always been the one to make up. I teased him, and was real mean to him last week. He told my mother I would have to do the making up. Will _ you kindly adise me what to do in this matter? _ Chicago, Ill. »- F. M. E here seems to be but one thing for’ you to do and that is to ‘make up.’’ It is the proof of a very small nature not to admit when one is in the wrong. We advise you to stop quarreling at once. It is childish and very silly. We are very fond < é. . * > you will give me some advice, because I _ will do just as you say, and I will be ever so thank- ful. I have been going with a young man whom I ‘leve better than life. I always thought he was a widower; everybody who knew him thought so But, to my great sorrow, I found out that his wife was living, and he was living with her, and that they had a very happy home. I have found it out when it was too late. I knew him nearly five years and never knew anything about his family " until about a Oar. 263. TI have tried my very best to stay away from him, but I cannot. He is al- ways very friendly when he sees me. I know it is a great wrong for me to be going with him. If you ean’t give me any good advice, I will end my life, Bes T don’t care for anything or any one else in this | BROKEN HEARTED. I hope Jersey City, N. J. | a tg My dear child, your pathetic letter makes me very sorry for you, but I hope that you will listen to the 3 advice which I now give you. It is true that you are in a very sad position, but, as you were deceived at the outset, you can hardly be blamed for what has happened. Try to control your love and force it to submit to your better judgment. You know that no goo@ can come of ‘loving a man who is bound to ‘another, particularly a man who has basely de- ceived you. It is your duty to yourself to give him up, and it should be done at once and forever. We do not fear that y will end your life. You are _ probably far too sensible a girl to do any thing so idiotic. - I am in love with a young lady of eighteen years and am in doubt as to whether she loves me or not, love to her and have asked her if she loves me also. She seems to avoid telling me, and changes the subject. I think she loves me, though, as there is a gentleman of about forty years that comes to see her and is quite rich, while I have spoken of m I have to work for a living, and she prefers. my eompany to his. If an opera comes along and he ' have asked her previously, whether I have or not, and then attends with me. If she loves me, I do not know why she seems to avoid telling me so. am an engineer and receive a monthly check of $120, and think I can afford to support a wife. _ Republic, Wash. ‘ G5: ¥. _ I should think by your letter that you were-a very worthy young man, and I have no doubt that the “yound lady will love you in time, if she does not “WOW. Give her plenty of--time to think over your vowal, but, if she waits too long before answer- A ng, you might coax her a little. The salary which you receive ought to keep you in modest comfort. te oy Although IT am not of the sex to gain admittance _ into the letter department, still I do not think you will lay my letter aside without answering. I am a young man of nineteen, who is deeply in_love with ee girl of eighteen. Her parents do not ob- to her going out with me, as we are old friends he family. Two or three weeks o I asked s father for her hand in marriage. e said we €ntirely too young, but that if I would wait oe. a. 2 a ru ‘tees MY QUEEN. asks her to go with him she refuses and claims I’ >’ 4) three or four years I would be welcome to her, pro- viding that she loved me then 4s much as now. I do not want to wait, as I am afraid Eva will be charmed with some one else then. I want to marry, and so does she. Please help us out of this fix or scrape, as you may Call it. EXLMER. Philadelphia, Pa. You do not seem to be over sure of your loved one’s devotion. Do you not think it would be better to postpone your marriage until after the danger of her loving some one else is entirely passed, or do you wish such a thing to happen when you are tied together? Her father seems to be a sensible man, and you would both da well to follow his advice im- plicitly. I want to ask you a question about my school lifes I am fourteen years old and I am of a quiet disposition. My friends, who were so_ kind and friendly to me a short time ago, now don’t take any notice, because they said there is no life in me and that I am afraid of the boys, ete. It is true that IT have nothing to do with .the boys, as mamma says [ am entirely too young, but am losing all of my friends, as they have just discovered that L. am too slow. Do please advise me. NATALIE, Philadelphia, Pa. I am delighted to hear of one fourteen-year-old girl who is ‘‘too+slow.'’ The majority of them are far ‘“‘too rapid’’ for the editor of ‘““My Queen!”’ Never mind about the ‘‘friends’’ who refuse to notice you, Natalie. You will be just as well off without their notice, and, some day, when they are wearied by their own fastness, they will be glad to come back to you. Just go on with your studies and be a nice, ladylike little girl and you will some day be a woman that your friends will all be proud of. .- My heart is breaking. I am deeply in love with a young man. I leave this city, never to return again. I do not think the young man will have the cour- age to ‘“‘pop’”’ the question. Will you kindiy sug- gest some way by which I could bring him to the point without losing maidenly dignity. Please tell me as soon as you can, because I do not think I should live, if 1 go away without some settlement. ; LILLIAN 8. Washington, D. C. 5 My poor child, I am very sorry for you, but, as I do not know the young man’s wishes, I hardly know how to help you. If he loves you, the knowledge that you are going away should make him declare his love, and if he has no affection for you there is no use in trying to force such an avowal. You can mention your departure when you see him again, and, if he says nothing, it will be pretty safe to con- clude that the regard is not mutual. In that case, you must be brave and not do anything foolish. Re- member, the world is full of worthy lovers, and, some day, your waiting will be rewarded. Last winter I attended school where a young gen- tleman also attended. We were classmates together, and I only thought of him as a friend, and 1 think he did me the same, but this winter we again at- tend the same school. I feel more than a friendly feeling toward him, and I think he is also inclined that way. And as I am only fifteen and he is seventeen his mother thinks we are too young to Zo together. What advice could you give me on this subject? HELEN. Kansas City, Kan. We think you would both be much wiser if you pay close attention to your school and studies for a few years. You are too young to spend much time thinking about love. Have all the good friends you can, but do not allow them to cultivate any deeper feeling for you than friendship, and do not permit any deeper feeling to enter your own heart. Wait until you are old enough to judge men before you think about confining your attention to any one of them, and be sure that they are established in busi- ness and prepgared for the struggle of life before you allow them to spend much time paying attention to yourself, COMIC OOO Hn(CO)