Marion Marlowe in Omaha, or, Held up by Accident — page 33: what you’re looking at

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sO ‘“Thave read Wy Queen’ with great pleasure and write to ask if Bert is going to marry Marion. I think he is a fine young man and should be the happy man to claim Marion as his wife. “GRACE K.”’ We agree with you that Bert is a very fine young fellow, and he certainly deserves Marion as much as any one else. You will have to read the rest of the series to find out whether he cap- tures her, for Mdrion has not yet decided to marry anybody. “J am in the same fix as a young lady isin No. 8. Iam seventeen and am looking for some nice girl whom I may love. _ “YT should like to correspond with Miss Effie B. if she would leave her address with you. “WiLL H.” . We advise you not to start looking for a girl to Jove. Wait until the girl comes along whom you realize you do love. She will come soon enough without your going hunting for her. It would be the best thing that could happen to you if you did not fall in love for ten years to come Young men of your age should be spending their time in study and gymnastics, and you will make asad mistake if you allow yourself to grow senti- mental. ‘Having read every number of ‘My Queen,’ I have become ‘greatly interested in it, especially in the columns devoted to correspondence, and I wish to ask you fora portion of your valuable advice. I thimk a great deal of two young ladies. One is about my own age and height, the other is three years my senior and very small. Both are nice girls and very handsome. I cannot de- cide which one I think the most of. Hope you can help me in making my choice. C. R N.” We do not believe that you think much of either of these girls or you would not ask an out- sider to choose for you. When a man really cares for a woman he does not need a guidepost to convince him that his affections are on the right e road. “T have read so much about Marion Marlowe's ood works that I want to be like her if I posst- ly ean. Lam acountry girl and only came to the city three weeks ago. I think I would like to be a private detective, as no one knows me in this big city I would like to do as much good as I can. Would you please tell me what to do? | . “Rurn M. G. We would not advise you to try to be a detec- tive, for only a woman of wide experience is of any value in such work, as a rule. There are ex- ceptions, of course, but you can find quite as much opportitnity to do good in some other line of work. Help those whom you find to be dis- couraged with a cheerful word of encouragement, Help the man or woman who is down by a con- fident opinion that they will come out all right You will meet such people almost some day. Perhaps you have seen every day of your life. the little rhyme below which contains some very rood advice y MY QUEEN. “Tt’s easy enough to be pleasant When life flows along like a song, But the woman worth while, Is the one with a smile : When everything goes dead wrong.” = \ ‘‘T am engaged to a certain gentleman and I am desperately in love with him, but my parents object to my marrying him, They say that lam too young for him. He is thirty-two and I am twenty, but he is wealthy, and I could not think of parting with him,for it would break my heart. ‘Lucy J. B.” If you are so much in love with this gentleman, why not continue your engagement a while longer and see if your parents will not consent to it. When they realize how much you are in earn- est,they may possibly reconsider their objections. If you love each other sineerely, you can easily afford to wait a while for your desires to be grati- fied. ~ 4 ‘“‘T am deeply in love with a very pretty young fellow. I am sure he also loves me. I am four- teen years old,and he is also. I have not told my parents aboutit. Do you think I ought to? I wear dresses up to my knees—some people think it is not right to wear them so short, but that is the way mamma makes them. I am a very pretty girl: Will you kindly give me your advice? ‘(BEATRICE M. K.”? You are entirely too young, Beatrice, to be thinking of love. Girls and boys of fourteen shotld be spending their time in school, fitting themselves to be wise men and women. We think that you had better tell your parent about this little love affair and make up your mind to do exactly as they tell you They are much better judges of what is best for you than you are your- self. Your.mother’s ideas about dressmaking are just as much entitled to consideration as those of other people. Since she makes the dresses for you, we would adyise you to be satisfied with their style. ——— “T here add another to your tales of woe. Please answer in your next issue of your grand series of ‘My Queen.’ I am keeping company with a young man with whom I am in love, but we have had a misunderstanding. He attends dances and balls without me,and I attend parties and socials without him. Now he says that by his attending dances he don’t do right by me; also, that I don’t do right by him by attending these. I say it makes no difference. ‘ELLA B.”’ We cannot see that either of you committed any very serious erime in attending dances to which the other was not invited. It is simply a question of which will give you both the most happiness. If you will both be happier giving up these parties and spending the evenings at home, your lover's position is correct. Why don’t you try to avoid any disagreement by introducing your lover to your friends, so that he will receive an invitation to the same places as .yourself? Then you can go together, Eomicbooks..com