Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-11-14


follow your own heart and good sense.
If you expect to marry, you are going
TO like some one man better than all
the others. some day, and mother might
as We'll like him. too.
Dear Mrs. Thompson-U) My chum
and | are both engaged. She wears her
engagement ring on her right hand and
wear mine on the left. Which Is
right? CD One OF us has brown hair.
% Left hand is right. CD White
for both.
Dear Mrs. Thompson-I am past 40.
f! single and not altogether sa tisfied with
my present surroundings In life. I
feel that | would be much happier
married. I'm go~od-natured. no bad
temper or habits, and I've always been
afraid to marry for fear l would not
make a popular husband At the same
time, l don't wish to get stung. by
getting the wrong girl. I know also
that there are any number OF good.
sWeet-tempered women that l could
get If I knew where they are. But I
ann somewhat bashful and nave an en-
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talking in company of the fair sex.
Cd How can l overcome that feeling?
() How can I make up my mind to
marry? 90 Do you think it is safe for
me to get a correspondent from a mat
rimonial paper?
AN ANXIOUS FELLOW.
On Forget all about yourself and
think of the person to whom you are
talking. (2) 1t seems to me you have
about made up your mind already.
go Haven't you any married friends?
Ask to be made acquainted with their
families. Some of their women folk
will see to it hat you meet eligible
girls or widows. Also. you might join
Dear Mrs. Thompson am divorced
and four years ago married a widower
with a daughter Is years old. 1 have
years old myself. Her father does not
care what she does. She likes fast
company and sits in cafes until mid
night. People where 1 live hin it
awful and l am heartbroken. I have
a little girl . years old and my STEP
daughter tells my little one everything
that goes on. | am a good woman n
d saving one. Please tell me what
to do? MOTHER.
III the father will not guard his
daughter better l don't know what you
can do. Try ard have a talk with the
girl. Tell her you know young girls
must have a good time. as you're still
Young yourself and know how it feels.
but ask her if she couldn't nave Just
as good a time by knowing nice people
ana inviting them to visit her at home.
Orer to help her furnish refreshments
and ask what entertainment she would
IL she feels thai YOU have q
sympathetic understanding she may
wish to do differently.
AS for your own little girl-keep her
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her mind with clean, good thoughts. so
that there wcn't be room for any other
kind.
a church. get interested in it's various
societies. and incidentally meet a lot
of nice women.
If YOU look for a c%ongenial. sensible
woman near your own age, you're not
ap to get 'stung." Those who are
stung usually get just what they are
looking for at the time. and then COM
plain forever afterward.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: My husband and
l lved for two years In the west, but I
got homesick to see my mother and we
came home. We went to housekeeping.
furnishing a neat little house. with the
intention of making our home here for
good. But my husband has never been
contented here and is continually talking
of going west again.
l can't bear to part with my furniture.
For two years we lived in the most in
convenient furniEhed housekeeping rooms.
80 l appreciate my home now SO
much. I hate to give it up. I think q
great deal OF my mother and hate to leave
her, though I like the west real we'll.
Please advise me. My husband Is out Of
work a great DEAL. not Of hts own accord.
which makes him more discontented than
ever. IJnsettIed w;ra
1t your husband does better in the west
than where you now are living. II ia vo.r
duty to make him a home there. Yon
can have your furniture shipped wherever
you go. When you get homesick for your
mother, pay her q visit.
Dear Mrs. Thompson-I am a cir, ~
~. % Should a young man ask the
lady's parents after engagement or wait
I'll! they are to be married and then
ask for her hand? (2) Ought q girls.
conscience tell her whether she loves
MIN o to marry him? VIII she
doubt her love at times? (3) How long
ought a couple to keep company before
they are engaged? az Ought an en-
couple to be separated for two
years. BLOSSOM.
mediately after he has aked the sir,
90 think every girl doubts her love
at times. even II in her heart sha ia
certain OF 1t. 81 Not Z minute oneer
nan It takes him to find out he lovea
me girl. He should then ask her to
marry him. a. Not IL It can be helped.
me engagement period should be used
20 get better acquainted with each
Dear M. rhc-r-.