Marion Marlowe's Peril, or, A Mystery Unveiled — page 33: what you’re looking at

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poor sort of aman. We do not advise you to look out fora suitor who will marry speedily by any means, for you do not want to marry until you are sure that you have found the man whom you love and who loves you. In the meantime, keep aloof from any entangling companionship and _-preserve your own dignity and self-respect. “Will you do me the favor to answer a ques- tion which is disturbing me a great deal at pres- ent? I am keeping company with a young man and hope to marry him, but he says when we marry I must give up my work and let him sup- port me. Now, he only earns ten dollars a week, while I earn twelve. Do you think I ought to give up a good position and deny myself the comforts which my own salary, added to his, would bring me? De! a Cor oe if you are earning a good salary and are satis- iy man as your lover should object to your working. If he cannot give you as much as you can make he certainly should place no obstacle in the way of your working. At any rate, you are free to make yourown choice. Independence and twelve - dollars per week are certainly worth considering. “My sister and myself work in a department - store on small salaries. We have very few friends, and live by ourselves. It is pretty hard work for us to get along. I have a friend, a young man whom we have both known since we were chil- dren. He has a good position in an office and he has repeatedly tried to make me presents of money. I have always heard that it was dishon- orable for a woman toaccept a present of money _ from a man. My friend says that I am foolish _ andthat I might as well take the money and buy something I need as to have him spend it for eandy, ete. Do you think he is right? : ; “Dorotuy A. M.”’ We judge that the young man is a very kindly, sensible fellow. A woman if she accepts presents _ from men friends at all might as well accept what _ is of some tse toher. This young fellow evidently is more anxious to have you provided with clothes and food than anything else, and he shows his good sense. It is the spirit in which a gift is ten- dered that makes it honorable or dishonorable. Some men would give you candy in a manner as would make you regret having accepted it. *- a __“Kindly advise me by one of your letters what to doin this case: I am to be married ina _ fortnight toa man whom I dearly love, but whom I have never taken into my entire confidence, I am obliged to support a little sister, and if I give up my own position to marry my fiance he will _be obliged to support her in the future. I am afraid to tell him this for fear he will break the engagement. Am I acting dishonorably in not telling him the truth and taking the conse- quences? Eva B.” | We cannot understand how you could possibly dream of marrying a young man and imposing Such a burden upon him unless you knew that he was willing to accept it. Tell him the facts in the ‘Case at once. We should not blame him for being ‘ Py indignant at your silence. ; * MY QUEEN. fied with it we do not see why so poor a young 31 “T have been married forthree years. The first two were the happiest of my life, and my hus- band was devotion itself. During the past twelve months he has spent almost every night out, and I have had many lonely, sad evenings. We have no chidren, and I have no interest in the world except in him. Please advise me how I can induce him to spend his evenings with me. Whenever I talk to him about it he gets angry. ' . “Mrs, ADELINE D. W.”’ We are not surprised that your husband got angry. No amount of argument or coaxing will make a man stay at home if other quarters are more congenial. The plan for you to pursue is to interest yourself deeply in your husband’s affairs; talk to him about his business, his horse, his bicycle or whatever he is most interested in. Try to make yourself so entertaining to him that he will forget that there is any other place in the world but his home, and any other person on earth but you. Then you will have won your vic~- tory over other attractions, and your husband will wonder why he ever wanted to stay away from you for an hour, “T am in deep distress, my dear Miss Shirley, and am coming to you to help me out of my troubles. I am in love with a young man who seems to be a flirt. It seems impossiblefor him to see a pretty girl without smiling at her, and he frequently tries to get introductions to others. If he cared for me would he do this, Miss Shirley? I love him so dearly that I suppose I am jealous. I do not want to be unreasonable, but I am very unhappy. ipa,” It seems to be a failing among the young people nowadays to not know their own minds. Fickleness is epidemic in the universe, if one’s observation is to be trusted. Perhaps your lover is only a weak, susceptible fellow, and if this is the case, itis well for you to know it before you marry him. On the other hand, his actions may be only demonstrations of regard for the sex, and if out of the entire list of pretty girls that he knows he has chosen you to be his life companion then we would advise you to overlook his natural homage to the others. When a man loves one pretty, sweet-dispositioned girl it makes him feel kindly toward ail the rest, and it is nothing against a man that he loves all women provided that this wholesale affection does not detract for the degree of love which he feels from his chosen one. **Please tell me what you would do :f you were in my place. I am only sixteen and my husband is eighteen. We have been married a year and have a little haby. My husband is out of work and we are both very near crazy. Ought I to put my baby in a nursery and go out to day’s work, or should I go home to my father, who is both will- ing and able to support me, but who declares he will not support my husband. My husband was earning nine dollars a week when I married him. ‘‘Brssiz G.”’ If your father allowed his fifteen-year-old daugh- ter to marry a boy of seventeen who was only COMICOOOKS.€O Ss