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&G q d a “[ havea bicycle, and I often go out for a ride, and one of my gentleman friends accompanies me home, but my mother and father do not like it very well. Iam a very respectable girl in every way, and am seventeen yearsold. Iam desper- ately in love with a young man who is very attentive and kind to me. He has never said that he loves me nor can I prove by his looks or actions that he does. Is there any way that I can prove whether his love is true to me. I was read- ing ina book called Morals and Good Manners,’ and it said no young man would want to put his arm around alady. If he did he would not bea respectable gentleman, and if she let him she would not be a lady. Now, Miss Shirley, what do you really think about this? Lovise 8.” There is nothing objectionable in riding the bicycle in company with a gentlemanif heisa proper companion for you, and if you return home ata reasonable hour. If your parents ob- ject to your escort, it is probably because they do not think him a fit associate for you, and we would advise you to be guided by their judgment. It is doubtful whether any girl of seventeen knows what it means to be ‘‘desperately inlove.” There is no way in which a woman can prove a. man’s love except by his actions. If this man’s actions do not denote affection, we would advise you to consider that you possess no attraction for him, and to endeavor to cease thinking of him in an affectionate manner. Save your love for the man who really values it. We cannotadvise you to allow the boys to hug you indiscriminately if you wish to retain their esteem. Embraces should be reserved for one’s fiance or husband. No girl who values herself will be careless in matters of this sort. \ “T have read six numbers of ‘My Queen’ and I can say I enjoy them very much. I wish to com- pliment you on your literary ability, although I think you are too hard on actors and the stage. Why do you write as if everything about the stage is bad? “Although I go with a crowd of boys and. girls who are about seventeen years old I am only fifteen. Those in my grade at school are all seventeen or over. I am in love witha girl of seventeen, and I love her better than any one else and she tells me the same, and I am sure she meansit. We love each other so well we feel we could never part, but we know better than to get married until I have finished my education and settled in some business. We have gone to- gether for about eighteen months. We love to kiss each other very well. Is it not all right for us to kiss frequently, as we are each sure the other likes to? Don’t think that we até so ‘gone’ that we don’t pay attention to our studies, ete. “Thanking you in advance for your answer to my question, which I hope to seein the question department of ‘My Queen,’ Iam, Lee, w,) 31 We are glad that you enjoy reading ‘‘My Queen” and have no doubt that the future issues will interest you even more. There are both good and bad people on the stage, asin every other walk of life,and the author pictures life as it exists, not as she would like it to be. Both your little sweetheart and yourself are too young to think of loving, or to be indulging in frequent kisses. Leave all such matters resolutely alone until you have finished your school days and have become established in business. You will enjoy women’s society all the more then, if you do not cultivate it overmuch now. Do not even think of marriage until you are many years older. “T am twenty years old and am very much in love with a man of twenty-five, who returns my affection. He makes a fair salary—enough to keep us comfortably if we marry. My parents object to him because he is not wealthy, as they say I ought to marry money, and they have picked out a rich man whois nearly twenty years older whom they want me to make myself agree- able to in-hopes that he will care for me The idea is repulsive to me, and J am at a loss how to act in the matter. Won’t you please advise me? CM seBeids OO. 0% Your letter seems very straightforward, and we would say thatif you are convineed of the sincerity of this young man’s affection there is only one thing for you to do and that is to marry him Do not do anything that is repulsive to your finer instincts or degrading to your woman- hood. ST ‘Please decide a question for me JT am invited to a dance at a social club of which my betrothed isnotamember Hesays it would be wrong for me-to go when he cannot be there, too, but I can’t see any harm init. He always escorts me everywhere and i shall certainly miss him, but I would like to go to this dance very much. Do you think 1 would be doing wrong to go? ‘CKANNIE P Your betrothed ought to be glad to have you go where you can find enjoyment, and his mis- fortune should not be madea bar to your pleas- ure. He is probably a little jealous We would suggest that you explain to him your reasons for wanting to attend this dance, and tell him as you have told us that you will miss his not being there. He would probably go to a “‘stag”’ supper if he got an invitation, andif you will put the matter to him in this way he will probably see the thing in the right light. We have no patience with the dog-in-the-manger péople who refuse pleasure surrounded by & trust you. Youdon’t sen é. Free to Boys and Girls. 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