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5 4, me nN 1 ff MY? (@, \ | _ import, has become well known. “Tam deeply in love with a young gentleman, but do not know whether he loves me or not, as he never told me, although he comes to see me almost every evening, and is very nice to me “Dear Miss Shirley, won’t you please tell me what to do to find out whether he loves me or pot and what to say? EpiruHa H.”’ This letter is similarto a great number we have received, and the same answer will perhaps serve for all. The young man would probably pet come to see you every evening if he did not prefer your society to that of others. The only way that wecan suggest for you to make sure that he loves youisto allow some other young man to show you a little attention. If the one you are so deeply in love with has any affection for you, this will possibly induce him to declare openly. If he does not, we would not allow him to monopolize us every evening, if we were you. | “T have just finished reading No 2 of ‘My Queen,’ and would like to ask advice of you, Miss Shirley. I had a lover, who loved me dearly, and for nearly a year we have been engaged. _ “Two weeks ago we had a quarrel, and I told him he should never come to my home again. But he called one evening‘and made me listen to what he hadtosay I knew I had been in the yrong from the first, and the kind way in which he taiked to me and told me what I had done, Made me look so little to myself, that it made me angrier than ever, and being of a very stub- born disposition I still stuck to if, that I was ‘Tight and he wrong, with the result that we _ parted. He has always been the kindest of lovers to me, taking me to shows, dances, etc, and getting me almost anything I said I would like to have. And, in return, I have treated him very Shabbily pretty often. He is very proud and won’t ask mea second time to take him back, and I feel so miserable. But I hate to tell him he fan come again, it would seem as if he was all I could get, I know he would come if I would only tell him I was wrong and ask him to forgive me. 4hen there is another, a richer one, who wants me to marry him. Miss Shirley, what would you @0, marry the rich one, whom I only like and fespect, or ask the other, whom I do love dearly, © forgive me? AUDREY ”’ _ You have made the mistake that many do in sticking to your point even when you know you ‘ —_— df >= A > ~~ ev roe a — =F GRAC ‘ Novre.—This department is a special feature of this publication, and it will be appreciated, we feel sure, by all our readers. it isconducted by Miss Shirley, whose remarkable ability to answer all questions, no matter how delicate the Readers of “My QUEEN” need not hesitate to write her on any subject. will have their interests at heart and will never retuse her assistance or sympathy. As all letters are answered only through the columns of **My QUEEN,” it 1s unnecessary to enclose stamps. <2 kT C— SS . Miss Shirley STREET & SMITH. + are wrong. Your lover, we think, has treated you better than you deserved? and we do not blame him for not asking you to take him back again. The sooner you tell him that you were wrong andask him to overlook it, the sooner you will regain your own self-respect. Do not con- sider marrying any man unless you love him Riches will not make happiness. When you h. ve made up with your lover try to avoid quarrels in the future, and, in any case, do not be afraid to say you are wrong if you really are. It is only saying that you are wiser to-day than you were yesterday, after all. vo “T have read ‘My Queen’ and noticed in the correspondence columns how you gave others your kind advice; perhaps you will give me some. J am eighteen years old and am receiving the attention of young men. One of them has proposed to me, and says he will kill himself if I give him ‘no’ for an answer. To tell the truth, I do not love him. Shall I tell him ‘yes’? aC. A Do not marry any man whom you do not love. Pay no attention to his threats of suicide—the people who talk about such acts very rarely com- mit them. The man who would use such an argu- ment to induce a young girl to marry him must be a poor specimen of manhood We would ad- vise you to dispense with the attention of this young man, as we doubt very much whether he is worthy of your consideration. ° ‘‘y read ‘My Queen’ every week and enjoy it immensely, for it is very interesting. I have read the questions and answers and have concluded to ask you a question, and I hope you will an- swer it frankly,.as you did all the others I met a young man some months ago, and as he after- ward said it was a case of love at first sight with him, but it was not with me. I did not like him but after a time I learned to love him dearly. He asked me to marry him, and I told him ‘yes.’ He is a fine-looking fellow, but he has a violent tem- per, and is quite poor, but I believe I love him well enough to marry him. Iam sixteen years old. Sometimes I fancy he does not eare as much for me as he did at first, and he is very jealons of me if I go out with any other fellow, but ! ECOMICcbOOKS.CO