A Wonderful Secret, or Marion Marlowe's Discovery — page 29: what you’re looking at

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ws et || GRA SWERS Pr agBY Se a CE SHIRLEY S— NOTE.—This department is a special feature of tnis publication, and it will be appreciated, we feel sure, by all our readers. I[t isconducted 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. : 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. I have a lot of admirers, but do not like any of them much except one fellow, and I do not like him well enough to marry him. He isa nice fel- low all right, bttt he is too generous with his money. When he meets a friend he wants to treat him, and no matter how many are in the crowd he takes them all along just the same. I don’t like it when he can’t take care of his money any better. I know he loves me very much, but I am eareful whom I choose for I see too many un- happy marriages. Please advise me what to do. Lowell, Mass. Brenda K. We know of few habits that are more pernicious than the habit of ‘‘treating.’’ It is utterly sense- less, to begin with, and is productive of more drunkenness than any one other thing. If your friend loves you so very much, why do you not use your influence to induce him to be less fool- ish? In this way you would be doing him a good turn, even if you do not like him well enough to marry him. lam a young girl eighteen yearsold. My sister, who is sixteen, and I live with an aunt. I have been keeping company with a young man to whom my aunt objects on account of his being poor. Last week he sent me a note asking me to go toaconcert with him. My aunt said if I went she would whip me. I did go just the same, but when I reached home, and just as my friend was saying good-night at the gate, my aunt rushed from the house erying ‘‘You are in for a good old-fashioned spanking,’’ and seizing me by the arm she dragged me into the house and shut and locked the door in the face of my astonished escort. In spite of my struggles,she then whipped mes Now, Lappeal to you, Miss Shirley, was that right? Would you advise my sister and me to go away and try to earn our own living or must we atay to. be turned up and spanked like babies every time my aunt thinks we deserve it. Waltham, Mass, PUZZLED ONE, Your letter has enlisted our astonished sym- pathy! We have always approved of spanking as the most appropriate of all forms of bodily pun- ishment, as it does not injure any organs and is circulation, but we have always stp- posed that children could be punished quite as effectually by other means. If your aunt's judg- ment is better than yours, and, if she is support- good for the STREET & SMITH. ing you, we would suggest that you do nothing to arouse her ire, but, if your judgment is better than hers, and you are capable of earning your own livings, my advice would be to wait until she commits another offense and then you and your sister turn in and spank the old lady. I have seen quite as many parents and relatives who deserved this form of punishment as I have children, but, unfortunately, there was no one to administer the spanking. From a serious, pro- gressive point of view, spanking is both absurd and unnecessary, and no woman of dignity will ever resort to it, and no young lady with self- respect will ever submit to it. I was very pleased to receive your good advice in last week’s issue of ‘‘My Queen."’ I have read all of the series. At first, my mother did not want me to read such books, but after I induced her to read one she now awaits them as impatiently as Ido. She read the advice you gave me, and said it was just the kind of advice she would have given. There isa young man I like very much. We have a dance every Saturday evening which all the young people attend, and forthe past four weeks he has escorted me home. A short time ago he was very good friends with a girl. She has vot been to these dances for six weeks, but last Saturday she and a girl friend of hers eame. He had been the same to me as ever, but as soon as he saw them he went to them and stayed with them all the evening. I romised him one of my pictures some time ago, and as we were leaving the dance he stopped me and asked for it. I protested against giving him one, although I had some with me; but he said, You know you promised me one.’’ So I gave him one, He then went to his friends and showed it to them. I suppose he went home with Miss R. I felt pretty badly, but, of course, I tried not to show it. I know if he comes near me he will get a very cool reception. Don’t you think that would be right? Hops L. Providence, R. I. The fact that the young man saw fit to divide his attentions at the dance need not deter you from treating him kindly. It is very poor taste for a young man to attach himself to one young lady and stick to her comicbooksscoime