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business ot with to ee ee ey Xe RRRR RRR Re Dear Misa Grey: are alike, To be brief, why ts it ¢ a few times, they all get “mushy refuses to kiss them? brothers, have true gentiomer through the first love and know ¢ m not highly educated, a of ment? would like to know why it is. are to blame, aren't they? y & ANOTHER ON KISSING Miss Grey, your answers make of my mother, whom I miss so much Cynthia Grey’s Letters ee ee | * * * ed Kindly give me a candid anawer to the following: Tam 4 girl In the early twenties, who is beginning to wonder if all men hat, after a follow goes with a girl nd feel very much offended {ff a girl Why can’t a girl, especially friends without th who ta without T have gone here is something deeper, 1 am Keeping house for my father, and am considered a Kpod housekeeper, but ean cook a fing meal and bake and sew, Don't men like that kind of girls, or haven't I met the right kind Tam not going to marry for a nice home, for I have that, but T have been told that a fellow ts consid cred slow If he doesn't ask & girl to kiss him, If that is trae, the girls me think INK it tx an age-old idea that a man has a right to kise a woman If she will let him, and is @ fool if he doesn't There ts no record of Just where or when it originated, but it does exist, and the modern girl has been so “oaay” that the young men ie required of them. I had a talk, of young manhood, and I asked moat to the me some to another,” he aid. whether « “the spooffhe does for a whil PH look for a girl like ——— be a modest, frank, sweet girl, but “mushy.” This young fellow went who tw jolly, and will play fair with when I say the girls are greatly to and the men who are worth while girl, who thinks too much of herse!f a eReweeeeeekene * * A LITTLE GIRL’'S MISTAKE * Ree eReeketane Dear Miss Grey: You are such a good woman, Mixa Grey, that I) want to ask you what you think of | 2} two girls that mo ago 16 years of are showing a spicn- of Ladies’ Spring Ae exceptionally tavor- By our Eastern buyer ‘to offer such striking arly in the are reaily worth | spring / | age took home from sehool one night? bai yearsold. i have also done other things for which ian am sorry, Now, Miss Grey, I don't want people to talk about me, which 1 think they will, There are some stories about me I do not like, and yet I think some are true, Wattin for an anawer, A GIRL, A—My dear little girl, you have committed no crime in wing @ bey to walk from school with you. 1 think you did not tell me quite all, and that you bave done so against your parents’ wishes. If you have decelved them, you cer nly have done wrong. The only way to stop stories you do not like to hear is to know within your own mind that you have given no cause for them, and go straight ahead, |doteg what you know to be right, Pulse tales cannot hurt your real character, and true ones that do not please you ought to show you how to avoid them tn the future. Just make a big stepping atone of these mistakes, and don't stumble over [the same stone again. | “Mae,” look in the Eebruary num- ber of the Woman's Home Compan and the Ladies’ Home Journal | for suggestions for parties. You ase them for other parties as ‘me the Valentine affairs. acies oil Golvdmanemunaa well as tae *% MARRIED UNDER ASSUMED NAME : eee sheseuenekeeee Dear Misa Grey: Two years ago under knew of it, but thought My sssumed ven in the certificate. Would the state law of Washington confirm it as legal. BEATRIC There is no law that makes it « misdemeanor to carry an assumed name, It merely looks suspicious. [Peete eKntahee ee * A MYSTErg’ « RETAKE hh Dear Miss Grey: 1 read your ad- [vice to others, so will avk that you ‘please help me. I hare one of the best husbands a woman could wish. are coming to think that tt really the other day, with a fair specimen “In the girl of today, what appeals ‘Some thingy appeal to me, and ‘es, I continued, “but I want to know rt must be ‘spoony’ to be popular.” “Til tell you,” he said; but when | want a wife for my home, We both knew the girl he mentioned to one no one would think of calling on to say that the boys ltke a girl them. [am not exens! he boys blame for this “spooning” business, want the domestic, broad-minded to kiss every man who asks ber, He has one bad fault I can't seom to care him of. He lies about being sbort in his salary, We have been ®/ married over 10 yoars. He gives me his check, and I try to make it #0 me far an poustble, and relieve him of worry, He never goes out without me, #o I can't understand what becomes of the money, He says he loans it, ete. meg for this we would be very happ: ONE OF YOUR ADMIRERS. A-—-If thin ts bie only fault, and you are sure he does not spend the money for some drug to which he is addicted, I would say nothing ®)} more about ft, but trust to his honor, and let him know I trusted him. There may be some debt that he does not care to have you know about that he is paying off, or some conselence debt. Try to think that when It ts right for him to tell you, he will, But I would be sure he ts not addicted to some drug habit, as you will be able to help him if he t Above all things, don't dis. cums it. DOMESTIC MASONRY. bhanind B STOR —-WEPEREDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1912. — - vw NEWS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO WOMEN READERS Dickens’ Well-Beloved Heroines EDITH, WHO BECAME “THE SECOND MRS. DOMBEV “It was the figure of @ lady, elegantly dressed and very handsome, “| whose dark, proud eyes were fixed upon the ground, and in whom She-~-Too many mon expect their wives to run thelr homes on tieally nothing. They forget that no one can make bricks without straw. He--My wife does—out of flour! Sete tees ee eee ee bef NOT WOMANLY WORK ' Caan deakne wanes ne tom and Dear Mine Grey: Please tell me if a girl 16 can learn detective work, and where? M. BB. doubt whether a girl of would be accepted by « A- that age # detective agency, and | would ad vise you to give up the idea. While im many cases detectives are nec essary do you think you would en- |Joy bunting down a human being, even to bring him to what we term Justice, but which many timoa but proves the opposite? 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She held « corner of her un- der lip within ber mouth, her bosom heaved, her nostrils quivered, her head trembled, indignant toare vere on her cheek. ° “Yeu, madam,” replied Mr. Dombey, “the. deed of settloment, the professional gentlemen inform jme, is now ready, and as I was men- tioning to you, Edith has only to do us the favor to suggest her own uation.” E a bandsome Stitue; as cold, as silent, and as still ae ee te. woes ree, eee, th@ table at Mr. Dombey. 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They got skates elves, and told us to ait nur they got through skat They knew well enough that we could skate, What do you sup- pose they did that for? And would you go out with them again? SLOW MUBIC AND FLOWERS. A.I'll tell you why I think they 414 this impolite thing. You girls &re #0 afraid you won't be popular, or have @ beau, that you will allow young men to be very rude and not resent it, and the boys simply want- ed to see if you would “stand for” & grome rudenews, And you did. You waited until they got through skating, and allowed them to take you home. If you had not, you Grey would have told me. 1 certainly would not be guilty of going with either one of them again. PUPP RHR Eee e : HE CAN STOP IT Peisehe didae we 4 Dear Miss Grey: I have been going with @ young man who, at Present, is employed as a con- ductor, although fitted for a higher Although not engaged, & perfect understanding between us. A certain school girl gets on his car every time she finds It necessary to take any car, and forces her attentions on bim. He finds it necessary to be courte ous to her, and she imposes on his politeness until she makes herself #0 conspicuous that the and phesengers make Can anything be done to stop this? Thanking you, D. M. O. AI think the conductor is the | o: jone to put op to it, and he can do #0 by being coolly polite, which wil in no way endanger his posi- tion. Others are very quick to see whether or not he encourages or discourages this silly girl's atten- tons, A udonbed decile plated’ £ THe WAY TO HUNT A 408 & Picpinn twee kee Dear Miss Grey: I'm a young man, and come from a respectable family, I have no work, and am not educated to do any certain kind. Stil, 'm « man with good brains, and should think there would be something for me to do. 1 have been around to several places, bat in vain. Shall I keep on searching aos job? What shall I do if 1 AN UNHAPPY YOUNG MAN. 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