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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

to him entirely she simply takes a chance on his proposing.
 If he refrains from making love to her or uttering the words which would encourage her to bind her hopes to him she has no actual claim upon him. He may pay her thousand fatterng little attentions and call regularly for six months or year, but if he fails to propose she is but a near-engaged girl-not by any means an engaged girl
 Men who so take up a girls time for year are subjected usually to bitter criticism. But how is a man to know her disposition or to determine whether his fancy would grow into love unless he sees her constantly in her home? And it takes more than day, week, or a month to solve such an important ques- tion
 Wise is the girl who will not tie herself down to one beau while he is on the same footing with her as her other young men ac- quaintances.
 No girl should consider herself engaged until she has answered "yes " to the three most wonderful words in the English language" love you.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
Woman Feeds on Ronlance.

But woman needs romance to feed upon, and so her mind reyerts back to the happy court ing days, the memory of which is always green in her heart
 A girl never will be happier and never wishes to be happier than when her lovers voice goes pulsing through her with the magic worlds :" love you,' and she answers:
 With eyes all love- and lips apart
 In one prolonged and rapturous kiss"
 No definite rules can well be laid down for deciding the length of engagements. I am of the opinion that happy is the wooing that's na long the doing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

her and that he is expressing his love for her in that way, when the fact is he don't care for her, but just does it to please him self. Now, do you think that is right for a young man to do that way? Does boy have a right to kiss girl unlesJ he is in love with her and wishes to marry her? I think in a great many cases young men do it for pleas ant pastime and to my idea it is very wrong I have heard young men say, I can kiss the girls without getting engaged to them But to my idea young man like hat ought never to be allowed to be with girl. J. S."
 If she is the right kind of girl she would not tolerate such treatment. Yes, indeed, it is better to propose to the girl if he is in love with her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
Hop She Knon,s.

The girl knows he is the true love because she has applied the poets pretty test: "Thou shalt know him when he comes, Not by any din of drums,
 Nor by the vantage of his airs;
 Neither by his crown,
 Nor his gown,
 Nor by anything he wears.
 He shall only well known be
 By the holy harmony
 That his coming makes in thee.' The refrain rings joyously in her heart 1: |" He loves me-" It finds responsive echo in the song of lis soul: She loves me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
"A Kiss for Each Mile.

<1 hiSS JOT EQCn Muc.
 Dear Miss Libbey: 1 am 23. 1 came from the east in the early spring, and have a nice position in a small town here in western Kan sas. Now, I am in love with a very sweet girl in the country and usually drive out to see her Saturday and Sunday evenings. I enjoy the evenings with her very much and always wish that the time did not pass so quickly But I respect her wishes and leave between 10 and 10 30. The boys and girls in this rural community have the habit of kiss ing each other even if they are not engaged. And I have heard them say, O, we kiss each other every mile, and in that way keep account of the miles, Now, as my friend has been raised in such a community as this. do you suppose that she expects me to do likewise? am sure I would like to kiss her just as much as any young man likes to kiss his sweetheart, but hardly think that it is right to expect such things of a girl unless young man is engaged to her. and then let him kiss her all he wants to. My friend does not seem to be just like tne other young folks of her community and I hardly think she ex- poets me to do like the other boys of this ,m- munity, but still don't know. She always treats me sincerely and kincly and | know she has expressed herself as preferring my company.
 Would you advise me to propose to her? I really love her very much. Don't you think that it is better for young to propose to the girl he loves and be refused rather than do like some boys? They will keep going ,;- bor times many other times before taking leave and in many cases the girl is a pure, innocent girl and really thinks the boy is in love with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

sweeter, though, thsln the making up of lovers quarrels?
 The sweetest wife in the whole world must not expect her husband to sit and spoon with her the evening loing, holding her hand and gazing into her eyesd whispering soft nothings in her ears.
 That sort of sentI Iment dies with the en- gagement days. His heart may be just IS full of love, but as n man of family, with many other things to think of he does not feel that it is necessary to prove it in the same sentimental way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

Then follow the days of real courtship when they live in a fabric of dreams.
 Ask any married man or woman with years of experience to their credit what is the hap piest state of existence. Ten to one they will answer that the courting days were far the heppiest Then there were no clouds to paar the sunshine. Expectations were at their sum- nit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
Troubles of an Undertaken.

Dear Miss Libbey l a young man in the undertaking business and you may know in this profession we are tied right down to work. have to stay around twenty four hours day It is seldom that I can get away to see my sweetheart. We are en- gagged and would like to ask if you think ir would be improper for her to call at the undertaking parlors and visit me in the after noons WALTER"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
Shall Thev Call?

Dear Miss Libbey; The other day I was riding with friend of min in an electric machine and two nice looking fellows came along in their car and smiled so we smiled, and when we got in tho park they followed us in their machine and talked to us, so we talked to them. Now. they have called us mp and we want to know if it wouldn't be all right to let them come and call, as we know they are nice fellows.
 "EvELYN AND LUCILLE"
 No Evelyn and Lucille, do not invite then to call unless you know something about them. They may be married for all you know. am surprised that girls of aour ap- parent education and refinement would De foolish enough to pick up acquaintances that way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
Said de Was III Mnnnered

Dear Mlf Libbey l have been keeping company witi young lady about lS for the last six mShhs and am very fond of her
 Last eveniRa friend and l stepped into the nickel snow and on 'oing in we saw my girl and her mother. We rot down beside them. and' q they had seen the show they got up and It few minutes after we came
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

in. Now, what l want to know is, should l have left also and taken them home? I called up the young lady on the phone the next morning and she was very cold and said it was ill hammered of me letting them go home alone.
 4 A PERPLExED YoUNG MAN"
 It would have been the kind thing to do, am sure to have gone home with the girl and her mother. Tell her that you were thoughtless and somewhat embarrassed, so hesitated offering to accompany her home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
Wants Her 10 Elopc.

engaged to a young lady of 20 for the last two years. l have a good position, paying $1OO month, and good prospects, but for some reason her parents have taken a dislike to me and have forbidden me to see her. l have been meeting her for some time at a friends house, and have been urging her To elope She objects to this as he thinks in time that her parents will consent to our marriage. As there does not seern to be any prospects of their doing this. I wish you would advise me what to do. PETER"
 Better wait, Peter until her parents are won over. It .s such common and such an unwise thing to elope. It places you both in trying position.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
Don't Be Near-Engaged Girl.

young woman should not encourage the visits of any one young man constantly, giving up all other male friends for him, until he has signifed his matrimonial intentions toward her. When she devotes her time and society
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

year or two is not too long for courtshp, but engagements that extend into six eight, and ten years usually end disastrously-disa trously and most unhappily, especially for the girl.
 True 1t is extremely unwise to rush head
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

'
 C good looking, and am in love with a lady 21 ,ars of age. believe that she likes me also, but there is an obstacle in our way which flinders us from marrying She has been married once, and her husband who is a brute, cruel to her. He would go out with some of his friends, and then he would come home intoxicated and beat her He kept this thing up until she finally left him. and she is now living at home with her parents but what l want to get at is this: Do you think it entirely proper for me to be calling or her, under the above conditions, as some of the neighbors are talking about us2 JoE."
 Is she divorced, Joe: If not, it is wiser not to go about with her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

thought that you might help me in my hour of trouble. l am terribly in love with a hand some young doctor, and l thought that he loved me, until l went to a social with him. There he paid great deal of attention to a young lady with whom I am well acquainted. As soon as l could l asked him why he did it, and he said that if I did not like it I could go my way How can l win him back?
 EMILY"
 I don't believe you could win him back It is one of the hardest things in the world to warm over coli love. As long as you are not engaged to tie fellow you had no right to object to his attentions to the other girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

No not so long as you engaged and your engagement has been announced
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
"A P6orh Bred Mother. :"

Dear Miss Libley l was carefully reared, in comfortable circumstances, among edU cated and refined people. My own studies and travel abroad have caused me to neglect matrimony yar ago kind fate threw me into the compny of an educated young lady of exceent character. Upon further acquaintance I Aarned that her father aud mother and brotlers and sisters are illiterale and unrefned. must admit 1 do rot enjoy their presence, Iut can one afford to forego the companionnip of good character be- cause of q porly bred mother? Could such a union prodre happiness? FAsTIDIoUs.'
 If you ready love the girl, the fact that her mother isilliterate does not count at all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

long into matrimony with no thought care
 for its responsibilities and with scarcely any knowledge of each others tempers and char acteristics.
 The boy of 20 and the girl of IS who have exchanged the tender vows in their youthful illusion see the world as a playground built for them to romp through the years in. Their youthful eyes fail to penetrate the hay dis tance beyond the altar. There is but one youth with it's fanciful illusions, and it is a question whether or not the bride should be made to look into the future with a long spy glass or be allowed to learn gradually and from day to day by actual experience.
 But the mother in the warmth of tender love should not fail to teach the girl in the months of her engagement as much of cooking and sewing as she can. Later when the girl is called upon to sew on a button or darn a sock she will realize that practical things in life must be met. She should be taught to cook steak rather than to follow her inclination to perfect herself in dainties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
Is She Diporccd2 }

N EAR MISS LIBBEY: l am young man A years of age, fairly
 D good looking, and am in love with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

Told Her "To Go Ohm Wov.
 Dear Miss Libbey: You have been great help to many girls of my acqr aintance, and
The Springfield herald., 1912-11-01

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Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1912-06-22
NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS
LEAGUE
10 be Held 10 Cbicngo-Delegatcs
from Nearly Every State 10 the
Union to be President-Local
Chicago Committees at Work.

The Thirteenth Annual Meeting
OF the National Negro Business
League will be bold in Chicago,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
August 81, % and %, 1912. The
Local Negro Business League Of
Chicago hss secnrcd the Seventh
Regiment Armory for the sessioua.
Delegates intending to be prese q /,
should, as early as practicable, notify
W. d, Neighbors, Secretary Chicago
Negro Business League; 35l7 State
Street, Chicago, Of such Intention, so
that proper accommodations may be
reserved,
Last year, nearly every state in
the Uniou was represented at tue
annual meeting held in Little Rock.
Officers Of the Organization are now
earnestly at work TO secure at Chi.
csgo an even larger gathering. The
hi''le Rock meeting set high stan
dsrd IN poipt Of attendance, attract
lveness Of program, and hospitality
OF it's citizens, but the Cbica 0
League is striving to have the com
ing meeting surpsss all previous
ones. The Chicago Chamber #
Commerce joined with the Local
Negro Business L3ague 10 invitipc
the National Organization 10 meet in
Cblcsgo, aud is cooperating to wei.
come aud entertain, those who NAV
attend.
Very low reduced rates will be
CIT red from all parts Of tue country.
aod especially FROM the South, f1r
Tue meeting. Local Leagues oye
IrGed TO elect delegates at oDcs
Expsilehce has shown that the rsil
1o"d authorities 10 evsly SECTION o.
'he country are willing to arrange
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1912-06-22
NAVY BUILDING IN EUROPE
>>ustro-Hungary and France Plan ES.
tensiIe Operations for the
Shlpbulldera

The Hungarian delegations have ap-
proved the Austro-Hungarian naval
program. which calls for an expendi-
ture Of $85.00O00O in building four
Dreadnoughts, three fast cruisers and
number Of torpedo boats in the next
sfx years. A squabble with the Aus
TRAN delegations has arisen over the
partition OF contracts for the new
work. Admiral Montecuccoli Is &C.
cused Of promising Hungary n larger
share than her contribution to the
work entitled her as an inducoment to
pass the naval budget The Austrian
delegations refused to ratify the deal,
and Montecuccol1 threatens to re-
sign.
Frances naval program, SO far ns
txed. provides for laying down this
year two 23,500 ton battleships.
Turkey has definitely arranged with
the Armstrong; for the construction
or two ftrstclass battle ships at once.
a special commission Is visiting for
e1Sn navy yards In search of hforlna-
ffon IN order to determine Cd the dis
placement and armament
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1912-06-22

for Special Pullman or Tourist Ca
parties. |. is care estly desired that
plane for such parties be arranged
for as early as practicable.
Some Of the strongest men and
women Of the Negro race will b.
present and speak at the comm,
meeting. These gatherings annually
bring together a group of hopeful,
energetic, aspiring and succeesful
men and women who are doing their
part OF the worlds work. Sessions
Of the following af1iiia ed orgariza-
lions will be held Il. the same time:
the National Negro Bankers AGO.
citation; The National Negro Press
Association, and The National n, gro
Bar Association group of he
strongest organizations in the coun
try among the Negro people.
Booker T. Washington, Pres
Emmet j. Scott, Cor Secy.
j. G. Napier. Cam. Elk. Com.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1912-06-22

The Pioneer Press has all along
;houeAi.tha our Uncle Samuel
wss generous old fellow, bat here
comes the T6easur Department with
q ruling that the United States Gov.
etnmsnt Is 100 poor TO pay for the
maintenance Of two cate, who are
valuable edjuncts TO a New York
branch of the Government. There
fore, the CANNES will do as they have
been doing heretofore, depend upon
the charitahly Inclined clerks who
haVe been caring fer them in the
past.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1912-06-22
The Uni'ed States Government

The Uni'ed States Government
should usa every meaps at i!s com
nsnd 10 spprebend snd eeveyely
punish the miserable mlscrean,s who
brutslly whipped w. a. McAlpin, q
muIat'o railway mail clerk in Unlop,
Mississippi, recently. The poor ma o
bed done nothing other than biz
duty, having received orders to 60 10
Upion and work back 10 LsureI.
For thus obeying orders, he wss
stripped Of bis clothing, end beaten
up,il almost dead, bic torment tors
Rleefully overrlng that they wanted
no "niggers" on bis Job. Soch con-
due, is repre- benelble IN the extreme,
and sboold be impossible of accom- i,
plisbment o any country other than
an upciVilized one, and il would be.
100, if the proper repressise meas.
ures were taken 10 stop it, Just so
long ss such devilment 90 that noted
above is allowed 10 bold sway in this
country, jue' so long vii America
be unable 10 trutbfully COLL herstlt
"'he !sud Of be free and be hcms
Of be brave"
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1912-06-22

We colorsd people should lnvari
ably s'eer cleor Of the clairvoyan,,
The spirit medium and the fortune
teller. They are fakee, pure end
eimp'e, and seek TO impoverisb, ruth
er than Improve our condition.
These human vampires con fine
'he mee!ves almost exclusively to ply.
ing their nefariouB prac:ices among
our people, ord because Of the inno-
cent cfeduli1y pioced in them and
their ability 10 DO and zee tbinps,
t"ey GRE resplng u rich harvest.
whenever these fshirs are given 10
understand that their oily tongues
have no effect on our people, tbouS.
aude of dollars will be eueed 70 US
annually.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1912-06-22

Governor Donnghey, Of Arkaneas,
hro eiGnlfiod his intention to pardon
every white woman who is an Inmate
OF the penitcntiery in bis State. He
gives as bis reason for this extraord
mary exercise Of the pardoning pow
or by him the fact that he thinks it d
bad place for lhem-believinp tina. it
hlnders, rather than improves their
moral status. The Arkansas peni-
tenti"ry may be, ns Governor Don
'Shcy says, bad place for women
or tue white race to d we'll 10, but if
II It's bad for them, why is it not
also bad for the oolored females who
are coLfiocd thcrein2 This being so
he CAMPO conscientiously pardon one
class to the absolute exclusion ol the
other.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1912-06-22

The Board Of Affairs refused to
endorse the action Of the City Coun-
oil IN granting saloon licenses, and
The Council, al special meeting,
promptly passed the saloon license
ordinances over the head Of the
Board by a four fiiths vote. Thus
far. tue saloon interests can pride
themselves with the fact that they
have put one over en- the drys, bu,
they still have some way to 60, the
County Court baving to put it's seal
OF approval on the councils action
when it meets in July, before saloons
can DO legally operated in this burg.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1912-06-22
GERMANY on THE SEA,

The strength Of German sea 0nwcr
and tho solid achievements OF Ger
man ship building were demonstrated
Lost month in au impressive way 10
the American people by the visit Of
the German equadron to the United
States and the launching, at Ham
burg, Of the Imperator, Of the Ham
burg American limo, the largest
steamship in the world. Three Ger.
man warships, the Moltke, the Brtm
en-, and the S'ettip, came, by com
msnd Of the Kaiser, to return the
visit Of the American warsbips to
German watcrs last summer. Their
reception in Hampton Roads aud
New York Harbor Was made The
occasion of an exchange of in,crn,
t'onal cour!esies, pleasantly expire Sd .
'ng the friendship between the two
countries. The Mnltke is battle
cruiser, speedy vessel, cape BILE Of
making more than 20 kuots an hour.
The Germans claims that she is the
fastest war vessel of Der size ehoat
tier commander, Rear Admira! R,-
bfur Paschwiiz the fret of German
sesmen Of his rank to visit this
country, 10 90 important official 10
the fgh,iug section of The German
navy. The fleet staff Of officers in
c'uies two princes and two barons.
On May %, Germany WOO one Of the
coveted blue ribbons of the sea when
the largest steamship ever built, The
Hamburg & merican lipsr Impera,or
OF so 600 tons, was laur ched from
the Vulcan Yards at Hamburg, and
chri5teDed by the Kaiser himself.
At The ceremony the fate Of the
Fitanic was inevitably present 10
peoples minds. but, as was pointed
out by officers Of the lioc, this Ger
man steamship carries life boats an d
life rate sufficient to take care Of
every one of her passengers aud
crew, which will aggregate more than
1000. The lmperator has new ADD
spt cIslly designed safety appliances
and she will carry three wireless tel
egraph operators and two first off
GERS, one Of whom will always be
charged with the security of the
vessel, The p9rator it is expe cted
| Will 20 into commission next SUN
mrr From The Ptogvess of the
Would 10 the American Review @!
| Reviews for July.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1912-06-22

Rev. K r. Thompson, psetor of
Dudley B,ptist Church, told his
bearers some mighty vital truths
regarding them and tbeir children in
that edltlce on Sunday night last
1t Is just such plain, uuvarnished
statements as those made by Rev,
Mr.. Thompson which are calculated
TO make Negroes wake up to the fact
that The only way to reclaim the
young people Of our race is to get
nuoy, aud that s0on. He took 8
nirg At the indifferent and garrulou US
pa''"i, toe immoral moving picture
snow, tue epcndthrifie and make
he''evcs and gave those within tbs
sound OF HE voice to distinctly IN.
derStund that there is only way to
accomplish anything, and that is the
right way TO make long story
sbor;, the speakers remarks were AZ
Timely as any beard 10 old Dudley il
Il long time, and we thank our good
preacher friend for making them
Some tlLDes people get lethargic, aDc
wheh they DO, just such medlcsue al
that al administered on last Sunda,
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1912-06-22

Elsewhere 10 this paper will be
found an account Of the closing of
the public echool at Frostburg, Nd
1t is sent us by Mr.. J W. Jackson,
the well known writer. Il striking
feature OF our friends description of
school affairs in his home town is
the urstinted praise which be gives
to tho school teacher there And
judging from what we know Of Mr..
Jackson, it is enough to say that he
would not recommend Mr.. Gordy
uDless be was 0. K and therefore
we take pleasure in congratuIa.ine
our friend "nd the other patrons 81
the Ffos,burg school in the posses-
sion Of 80 excellent q teacher.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1912-06-22

The senior editor is in CHICAGO.
where be ie attending the stormy
sessions of the Republican National
Convention. AS We 60 10 prees
(fridsy sf,ernoon), things in the
Convention are in tangled shape,
therefore we will have TO forego
the pleasure of informing our readers
as 10 the identity uf the Republican
presidential nominee.