Marion Marlowe in Salt Lake City — page 29: what you’re looking at

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-: ai) A: ™ Yip 4 VA 4 - GEE, Cy’ OF BE: Ce yx) import, is well known. ‘“‘Tam a boy yet, being only fifteen years old, and among my friends we havea good many parties I took one of my girl friends home from church the other night, and my folks told me it was not right and that I could not do it any more. They allow me to take a girl home from a party, and Ido not see any difference between the two. What do you think of it? (es EE Oa We advise you to ask your parents their reason _ for making the distinction between escorting _ your friends from church and from a party. Itis _ possible that-there is a reason which is not ap- parent to you or to us. We do not think that following your parents’ wishes will cause you to lose many of your friends, and your parents’ advice should be taken until you are a few years older, at least. “Tama young man twenty-one fears of age, and am deeply in love, and would get married, but do not know whether I ought to do so on my present salary. I am getting $35 per month, but _ live at home, andit costs me nothing. My mother is an invalid, and we pay a woman $8 per week _to take care of her, but if I get married my wife could do this work and save this expense. . wR, Jel.” - We think that your suggestion is one of the meanest that we ever heard. You are unable to Support a wife, yet you propose to ask this girl _to marry you and do the work of a nursein order that your family may save the amount of the Rurse’s wages. If this girl does the work, why is | she not entitled to the money? ad _, “I am sixteen years old and am five feet six Inches in height. I want to know if you think I am® too young to put my hair up and wear long dresses on my seventeenth birthday, which comesin March, My brother doesn’t like to take me around with short dresses on; he says I am too young to go with him. I like ‘My Queen? _Yery much, only I think Marion is very foolish to go to a beggar’s home. It is all right to five them five or ten cents, but I would draw the line ' at going to their homes. I hope she will have _ better sense after this. I think Marion ought to ‘§et married. Bert is the one for her, she seems to like him better than Mr. Ray or Dr. Brookes, ‘ GRAC NO?TE.—This department is a special feature of tnis 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. their interests at heart and will never refuse her assistance or sympathy. 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 q ask our correspondents to limit their letters to zoo words, in order that all may be answered. NOLES a BT! So E SHIRLEY >= Miss Shirley will have As all letters are answered only through STREET & SMITH. and then she would not have so many exciting adventures. FRANCES E.”’ You are about the age when most girls’ dresses grow longer and their hair shorter. Why not tell your desires to your mother and explain to her why you are anxious to become a “grown- up’ girl? : You have misunderstood Marion’s motive in going to the beggar’s home. Her one desire was to be helpful, and helpfulness does not consist in giving away five and ten cent pieces. Marion has not shown any desire to marry yet, but she may fall in love with one of the three men you mention. Who knows? : “Tama young man twenty-eight years old and have been keeping company with a young lady for the last four and one-half years, but have never said anything to her about marriage. A1- though I think a great deal of the young lady, I have come to the conclusion that I can enjoy life better single—or at least for a while yet. Would it be right for me to break up with her? Some of my friends say it would not, as I have taken up so much of her time when she had other chances. Tos. A. B.” If your own enjoyment is the chief aim of your life, we advise you not to marry as long as you continue to consider that you prefer single life, We doubt whether the young lady would thank you if she knew that you proposed to her simply from asense of duty. You would probably be doing her a kindness to cease ‘Keeping com- pany”’ with her, for you are too selfish to make a desirable husband. No man entertaining your sentiments should monopolize a young woman in the way you have. _‘I am a girl of sixteen and come to you for ad- vice, although you might think I eould judge for myself. I have a very nice brother of seventeen who always liked to go to parties and sometimes went to three or fourin a week. A year ago [I refused every invitation he gave me to go with him telling him for an excuse that I had too much to study and did not feel like going, J recently made the acquaintance,of some boys at COMICcoookSs.c©