The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-09-02


batch of them. The first that she
took in hand ran as follows:
Dear Miss Mayhem:
Il want your advice about the
young gentleman that l am engaged
to marry. He is model young fellow
in all respects, goes to church regu-
lar, and neither drinks, smokes or
chews, but sometimes he uses slang.
Ought / to give him back his soil
taire? 1t is a beauty and I love him
dearly"
Miss Kent read through this com
munication with gathering disgust.
Then she penciled at the bottom:
Don't marry him until you have
cured him of his unpleasant habit.
No gentleman ever uses slang, espe-
cially in the presence of a lady"
The next letter read like this:
Il am young lady, twenty-five
years of age. l have a very nice
gentleman friend in a good position
and have been going with him two
months. We love each other dearly.
But my friends tell me it is wrong
to go with a gentleman unless you
have been properly introduced, and l
met Frank at clam-bake. What
shall l do?"
Miss Kent bit her pencil and re-
fected. The forms which Miss May
hew had left her did not quite cover
en-
mutual friend to introduce your" she
wrote at last. I hope that is what
Miss Mayhem would have advised"
she reflected. and brought up a let
ter haphazard from the pile.
The third letter ran like this:
MY Dear Miss Mayhem:
you have given so much good ad-
vice to others that perhaps you will
help me. A young gentleman is very
fond of me, like l am of him. We
love each other dearly There is only
one vice he has. After he takes me
to the theater he wants me to kiss
him good-by after he takes me home
My friends tell me that l ought not
to let him kiss me as we are not en-
gagged. What ought l to do?"
This time Miss Kent could not go
wrong, for one Of her predecessors
forms exactly covered this common
situation. Miss Mayhem was ALBANIAN
tine where propriety was concerned.
mo lady" she wrote, will ever
offer her lips to man under any cir
mn 70 No he 4a -
him. You must tell your friend firm
ly but politely that you cannot per-
NIT such conduct"
After she had put this letter aside
Miss Kent was quite thoughtful for
long time. The paper was crowded
that day and there was only room for
one more answer. The last letter
was long one.
'.Dear Miss MAYHEM:
Il am a blonde and have been 60
ing with young gentleman for a
year. We love each other dearly. He
calls to see me every Wednesday and
on Saturday nights we go to the
heater. He has told me that he is
not going with any other young ladies
at present but he has never asked me
to marry him. Would it be wrong
for me to tell him l love him? l am
nineteen and am considered rather
good-looking."
Something of Miss Mayhew's
adamantine resolution nerved Miss
Kent's right hand
mo woman ever tells a man that
she loves him until he has asked her
to marry him." she wrote. THAT is
exclusively gentleman's prerogative.
You can only be patient and suffer in
silence. Can you not encourage him
to make a declaration by not conf1n-
ing your attentions to him exclus-
ively?"
Il WONDER" she reflected, as she
laid her pen aside, whether Miss
Mayhem was writing from experience
when she penned Form f."
Her task was over at last and she
rose up and went to the wardrobe for
her hat. She hoped Miss Mayhew's
mother would make an amazingly
rapid recovery. The agony column
exhausted every atom of her vitality.
1T is good discipline to be sponsor
for all the love-struck idiots In town"
she reflected
Il beg your pardon?" inquired Mr..
Mclaughlin.