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Pea | ee whichever hospital you choose, addressing the “Superintendent of Nurses,’’ and ask for an application blank. Fill this out properly and return it to the superintendent. That means that your name will be considered in the regular order. You need to have a good education anda robust constitution to take the training school course in any hospital. * J am over seventeen years of age. The other night as I was coming home I met a young man whom I know by sight. He offered to accompany me home, which he did. He asked if he could eall, but I refused him. Did I do right? I wish to make the acquaintance of two charming young ladies whom I have known for the last seven months by sight only. Could you tell me how to manage it? . PAULINE K,’ If the young man is only a casual acquaintance it is wellto refuse your company, especially as you are too young to be receiving calls from any but family friends. Do you not know some mutual friend who can introduce you to the two young ladies? If not, try to find out whether or not the young ladies would be pleased to know you, and, if you think the pleasure would be mutual, there is no reason in the world why you ghould not tell them frankly of your desire to know them. Between girls of your age there.is no need for strict conventionality. — Oe ee i, é * "oe “Tam acquainted with two young men, but the . one I care most for does not seem to care for me. - What ean I do to win his affection? “Ciara AS.” “ft am deeply in love with a young man, but he does not return my affection. He used to pro- fess that he loved me, but now a girl with money and a pretty face has won his affection. Now, how ean I win his affection back? I don’t know what I shall doif I don’t succeed in winning it back. | BLANCHE C”? To “Clara A. 8S.” we would.say you must allow love to take itscourse; you cannot coerce it. It is a foolish waste of time, Blanche, to try and win back an affection that has been trans- ferred. Why not try to cast the old love from you? Interest yourself in other matters and let the young man go his way. Perhaps, in time, he may repent of his fickleness and come back to you, but he will not come a minute sooner by _ anything that you can do or say. “T am a constant reader of the ‘My Queen’ series and am delighted with them, and on look- ing over the Correspondence Department, I _ always find sufferings and troubles, and it makes me very sad to think the ‘poor girls’ are getting so deceived, and also getting in such a ‘hurry’ to marry. Iam a married woman and I don’t think there is any happier woman living to-day than I am. My husband is all the world to me, and we love each other dearly. We have been married nearly six years, and we live every day alike,per- fect harmony in every sense of the word. Iam only two or three years his junior, and he is _ hearly forty. Marriageis all right in its way. But __. there is altogether too many ways of abusing the _ wunion,and Ido not think any person ought to MY QUEEN. 20D take that step until they positivefy know they iove each other and intend to live true, upright and honest,‘as I do not believe in divorces. You des€rve to have great credit, Miss Shirley, in answering the questions for avery ney enc and classes. . y Was Many tanks for your kind words for “My Queen.” We are delighted to print your letter and congratulate you on the success you seem to have made of your married life. “T am desperately in love with a girl who lives in the country We keep up a correspondence. She has four or five fellows in love with her and she intends to take the first one that proposes and learn to love him afterward. Please tell me how to propose. ly We do not advise you to propose to this girl as her matrimonial methods are not to our liking. The girl who takes the first man that offers is more than likely to be over-anxious to marry and not infrequently she ‘‘marries in haste to repent at leisure.’’ Wait until you have really won the love of some girl and then you will have no difficulty in‘ popping the question.’ ‘JT am sixteen years-ola and a fellow has asked me to go toadance with him. He wants me to wear alow neck dress as my neck is very pretty. He says he will take another girl if I will not wear a low neck and try to look attfactive. He will take the girl that he goes with sometimes. I don’t like her as she is my rival. SARAH R."* You are entirely too young to be going to lances with young men,and especially with such a young man as the one you describe. No young man with immodest ideas of dress is a suitable companion for you, and we advise you most earnestly to let the.other girl have him. “lama girl of fifteen and am desperately in love with a handsome young man. The only ob- jection that I see to him is that he smokes cigar- ettes, and is rather fast, and has swornin my presence two or three times. He has never pro- posed, but has come pretty near it,and as he loves me very dearly, I know that he-will before long. EMILy F "’ Some of the best men we know smoke cigarettes and men with international reputations for cour- age and honor have been known to swear. Per- haps you can influence your lover to give up both his cigarettes and profanity, but do not “nag” him to do so. Remember you may have faults of yourown. Chewing gum, for instance, is almost as vulgar as smoking cigarettes, and talking slang is almost as bad as swearing. ‘Tam in love with a young man. He is twenty and I am eighteen years of age. My loverisa perfect gentleman in every respect, but he asked me to kiss him once and I slapped him in the face. He got mad at me, but we made up, and after that I kissed him several times, and once I put my arms around his neck and hugged and kissed him good-night. Of late, he seems to have grown cold and. began to go with another girl He went away about a month ago and has not GOMmlGooo S}5(CO)