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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20
Real Life Romances Offered Miss Lbbey Solution

some reason he stopped just before school
started last September He has always treat
ed me nice ever since, but will never tell me
why he quit and always alludes to it as my
fault that we quit He sits ahead of me at
school and always tells me his troubles and
have helped him on several occasions. AL
though | love him dearly do not show it
and always treat him as friend. He re-
marked several times how much he loves me,
and yet he does not seem to want to 60 with
me- lie also says that he thought l loved
him once, but that was all dashed to pieces
(meaning my quitting him, as he terms it).
1t disgusts him to have girl run after him.,
but he cannot think that about me, for as l
said before l treat him as a friend and never
show my love and l never push myself for
ward, but always let him start the conversa-
ton, and II he acts little cold never let on
as II think anything of it and keep still.
And II go with any one else he gets spunky
about it and have told him that don't see
why he should care, since l wasn't going
with him, but he doesn't look at it that way.
lie seems to think 1 should not 60 with any
one anyway, vet it doesn't make any differ
ence how many girls he goes with He is
always making smart remarks and if / get a
little provoked when he talks that way he
tells me not to get mad and that he doesn't
mean It SO as to make me mad, and if I ask
him why he talks that way to me when he
wouldn't to others Especially right in school
and where any one can hear him. because
he doesn't care who sees or hears him do any,
thing) he always says, because he seems to
know me better than any one else, and he
knows that know he doesn't mean half he
says, His actions are queer that cannot
understand him. Now do you think he is
trying to make fool of me, or if he really
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zac never lost an opportunity to extol the
wide influence of feminine loveliness,
Certain it is that every woman who has
swayed the history of humanity has been
either naturally gifted with beauty or resorted
to such clever articles to enhance her charm
as to render her capable of being felt in
history.
Time was, not so long ago. such innocent
practices as changing the color of ones hair,
or even dieting seriously for the figures sake
were sternly reprehended Not so now. The
most casual person has not only modified his
views but has changed them altogether.
You will hear people assert confidently that
there is nothing so beautiful as young face
in frame of silver gray. But when the
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Holds Her 10 Her Promise.

| have asked him repeatedly to release me
from the promise | made him years ago. and
to let me fix up like other women, but for
some unearthly reason he refuses. He never
compliments me any more, even on the simple
style he chose that | should wear, as he used
to in the first happy years of our marriage.
seem to be getting homelier every day. The
style that was becoming to me in the early
twenties when had the freshness of youth in
my face, is certainly very trying to the lined
countenance | now see reflected in my mirror
And my neck is so hopelessly ruined with high
collars that even though | should win his
consent now | could not wear a low cut gown.
:" Don't You think, Miss Libbey, under the
circumstances l am really justified in taking a
though it necessitates breaking the promise
made when | was young? l feel sure if things
go on this way l will lose my husbands love
entirely and this | do not want to do. What
would you adv-e me to do? Don't you think
it is a woman's duty to make herself just as
she must resort to harmless articles to get
satisfactory results? MRS. e. W.
1t is almost impossible to imagine that there
are husbands such as this one to be found in
age when the cultivation of beauty is a
practice loudly commended by the broadcast
minded men and women in the country.
1t is hard to understand that there are men
who with deepest interest will guard the
health of their dogs and horses, will see ten
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derly to their grooming and care. and who
when they observe their wives going through
necessary formaties of complexion coddling
will cast upon them smiles of pity or con-
tempt.
Fortunately, these absurd creatures of the
masculine gradually becoming rare
beings. They are the worst class of bigots
They are intolerable. To them there never
comes the thought that God and the angels
have put their divine touch upon the beauty
of woman, just they bestowed it upon the
tender veined foliage of the trees and the blue
of the sky
1t is we'll for the wife to pursue her beauti-
flying, even though her lege lord sneers his
face into thousand grimaces
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wife of a man most often taken to be her son
her resort to henna or dye is not only her
right but her duty to both as well.
The custom of lacing is far less prevalent
today than it was dozen years ago. The
wiser method of dieting seems to have super
seeded it. But even so, no fair minded per-
son can behold a woman without realizing
that she was meant to be beautiful, and that
the woman who does not take the Pains to be
beautiful is am object Of censure.
This is an age of woman's right as well as
womans rights, and womans enhancement by
harmless artifees is as clearly her prerogative
as immunity from interference with thought
and speech is that of man.
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before he was to me, but don't know for sure.
Would it be advisable for me to ask him about
it, or keep wearing my heart away for him?
i can't lind out what he means. Shall | be
plain with him and find out at once, or keep
waiting, though he told me when we were
engaged that he couldn't arrange his business
to get married before next fall? Shall wait
ON until that time? T."
You better be perfectly frank with him.
Tell him if he can't be more fair with you
that you will break the engagement. There
is no sense in encouraging that sort of thing
In man you expect to marry If he is al
lowed to be so inconsiderate of your feelings
now he certainly will not make desirable
husband.
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Has Lost a Friend.

" Dear Miss Libbey | have lost dear
friend and want to gain his friendship back.
l met him last September and he has been
calling on me since last November. He is a
worthy young man and / think quite well of
him, but in passion of madness / told him
l was sorry we ever met and told him he
could not come to see any more. BY the
time had spoken the words my heart almost
sunk, but | was too stubborn to ask his for
giveness and | have seen him but once since
and he treated me very cool and seemed to
only regard me as he would any other woman
l miss him much What steps could /
take to win him back and at the same time
not humble myself? | love him very dearly,
but | don't want him to think | care for him
any more than friend. He is 81 and
l am 81. d. e."
Foolish pride is responsible for more bro
ken friendships than any other cause If you
were to blame for the misunderstanding write
the fellow n,te telling him how sorry YOU
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She Is a Jealous Girl.


Dear Miss Libbey | girl of 16
About a year ago | was deeply in love with
young man. | went with him very long
time and after while we were engaged Some
time after that L found that he was decevng
me- But listen / am a very jealous girl
and could not stand to see him notice an
other girl. OF course | did just like he did
| went to going with other boy friends too
just for spite. After a while this young man
grew very jealous of me and quit calling on
me. In about month he called on me and
found me gone. lie left and never did come
any more for three months and when he came
again he found me at home. He talked to
me about other girls, and whom he going
with. He stayed about an hour and left [
just dearly loved this fellow until he did this
way-talking to others-and that broke my
heart Then l began to look for another friend
like he had once been. In about three months
| found one and l am going with him now
and | have learned TO love him very much
/ like this old friend yet. In a case like this
would you advise me to go back to this old
friend and make up again and forget the past
or let him go and stick to the one | love now
and wait three years? Which would you adj
wise me to do? r."
You are much too young to think of marry
ing. You ought to wait five years. at least
A girl of 1G knows nothing of real love The
man girl would marry at 16 rarely ever is
the man she would marry at 21. When you
marry you marry for a lifetime so you had
better not rush into il without more serious
consideration than a girl of 16 can give
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! AS a man a right to say whether or
not his wife shall wear false hair or
use powder?
Has he the right to forbid her to
diet or TO use cold cream or skin food? To
dye her hair? To darken her eyebrows? To
wear French heels? And tight skirts? And
decolete gowns? And earrings?
On my desk before me is the following let
ter from a perturbed wife
Dear Miss Lbbey: am married woman
OF 30 and have been married ten years. Ny
husband is a good provider and in lots of
ways is kind enough lie never stints me ON
money for the house or for the children. We
go in good society good deal in the town in
which we live, as my husband is in business
here and is prominent in Masonic circles and
in club life. But o, | am so unhappy over
something for which perhaps l am partly
sponsible myself just before we were
ried my husband one evening made me promise
l would never change the style of my hair and
that | would wear decolete gown.
At that time he was poor, and the possibility
of ever wearing decoete gown never
CURED to me, but even if it had was so much
in love with him | would have made almost
any promise, | think.
= But when he made me give the promise
thought he asked it because he so loved the
simple way l dressed my hair, and because
high neeked gowns were more becoming. But
/ have reason to believe now, Miss Lbbey,
that it was jealousy that prompted him to
make the demand of me. Worse than that,
l do believe he is growing tired of me. and
l can attribute his neglect only to my un-
Interesting style of hairdressing and the
comfortable high necked frocks which make
me irritable sometimes. | am as good wife
and true any man could have. | man
age the household in way that he himself
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loves me? And do you think that I treat him
right? If not, how should I act? What shall
| do about it? | just worry about it from
morning to night, wondering if he really
means what he says. Try and believe
".RurH."
L think it is SO unfortunate that love af-
fairs are making their way into the schools
they are doing. The success of a man and
woman's life depends much upon the proper
utilization of their school time. And school
time cannot be properly utilized if the hours
are filled with disturbing, silly romance
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Is He Trying Her Love-

Dear Miss Libbey: / am deeply in love
with young man of 26. am 20. / met
him about twelve months ago. About three
months ago he proposed to me and accepted
him. Since then he has acted kind of cool
toward me. Will you please tell me, if you
can, why he does that way? Is he trying my
love, or does he aim to fool me, or what does
he mean? | said something to him about the
way he was treating me and he said Well |
want to go around and be with some other
girls, too / told him that did not believe
that he meant the proposal he made to me,
and he said that he surely did. He says, If
l didn't mean it, what am | talking it to
other people for?' l said Well, you might
have just talked to that lady that way for
her to tell me about it to make me believe it,
and then mean to fool me- but he vowed that
he didn't mean to fool me. My sister, think,
is deeply in love with him and they have
some secrets once in while Would it be
advisable for me to make out like | am mad
with him when think he is doing me wrong?
Would he quit me if was to do that?
don't feel like / can give him up. l have
heard that he was engaged to another girl
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Her Parents Object.

Dear Miss Libbey: 20. deeply in
love with fellow my age. lie is not of the
same religion as | am. so my folks have
objections to my keeping company with him
But we love each other dearly and cannot
live apart, as we have already tried. Will
you please give me advice on this, for | am
engaged to him? H."
1T is always better that the couple be of
one faith. Religion plays a very important
part in the making of a successful marriage.
Many marriages where the man and wife are
of different faiths, however, do turn out most
happily 1t is question for you to decide.
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Doesn't Iike Her Chun1s,

Dear Miss Libbey: I am %. Have dark
hair and blue eyes, | am in love with man
about 80. The only thing dislike about him
is he does not seem to be interested with my
affairs about my young girl friends and also
doesn't seem to be interested in my set but
likes to go with older people. Please give me
your kind advice. Do you think he will out
grow this habit if | go with the younger set?
And what do you advise me to do?
"PoLLY."
II is hard to say whether not he will out
grow his dsinterestedness in your ehums. II
they are not particularly interesting to him
you better make up your mind before you
marry the fellow that you will try to cultivate
his friends. Do not let the fact that he does
not care for your chums Interfere with Jour
happiness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20
Time Was, Not So Long Ago,
Such Innocent Practices as
Changing the Color of Ones Hair,
or EUen Dieting Seriously for
the Figures Sake, Were SternLy
Reprehended. Not So Now. The
Most Casual Person Has Not Only
Modified His VieUs but Has
Changed Them Altogether.

has complimented me on many times. But
whenever we go to social functions where he
is thrown with other women he dances and
pays attention only to women with elaborate
coiffures and low neck gowns He negects me
shamefully at these affairs, rarely ever dane
ing with me or with any other woman plain
ly gotten up,
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She is the wise one, and both the right of
the individual and the law of sane living give
her the privilege of preserving what is most
valuable and precous-youth, buoyancy of
spirit lightness of heart all of which a
woman loses the moment she refuses to make
herself attractive.
The marriage ceremony has nothing to say
about cold cream and powder puffs.
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Right 10 Cultivate Beauty.

The cultivation Of beauty is not ridiculous
idea, as some small people would have be-
heve. Some of the greatest thinkers of the
world have never been so happy as when
dwelling on this ever fascinating topic. Ruskin
and Emerson refer to it frequently, while Bal
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Again, your girhood days are the happiest
days you will ever know, why shorten
them with the responsibilities of married life?
You ought to try 10 prolong them just as
much as possible
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4 School Love Affair

/" Dear Miss Libbey: / am schoolgirl OF
16. but seem older, as have kept company
with young men for some time. l kept COM
pany with a young man about two and
half years my senior. but just one grade above
me at school, for about year. and then for
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He Is a Fireman,

:" Dear Miss Libbey: | am 81. | am
fireman on the railroad. What want to ask
you is, there is girl who works for the same
road as | do. see her several times a day.
/ do not know this girl to speak to, but one
of the boys | know knows her and l want
him to give ME an introduction to her, but he
says she is married. I know different, because
she lives with her sister. Do you think it
would be proper for me to speak to her?
know could learn to love her and she would
make happy She looks like a sort of
jolly girl. l."
No, don't speak to her She probably
would ignore you entirely if you were to at
tempt such thing. If you want to meet her
have some common friend introduce you. That
is the only right way to do
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Shall She Ask Him to CaH9

:" Dear Miss Libbey: Is it the girls place
to extend an invitation to a young man to
Gala man whom she has met at several
parties and who has paid considerable atten-
ton to her? / have not invited him to call.
ANXIOUS"
1t is the girls privilege to extend the first
invitation to call, although frequently the man
requests the privilege. 1t is really optional.
At any good book store you will be able to
secure a book on etiquette. A very helpful
one is Margaret Sangster's Good Manners
for Every Occasion"
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are for your outburst of temper. Invite him
to come and call on you again. That's the
only way to do.
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\ AS a man a right to say whether or
~ not his wife shall wear false hair or
use powder?
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-03-21
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The Cairo bulletin., 1913-03-21

sea, too. If he urged Sullens to at
tack me for revenge on my daddy
as Su lens says Mother says she
still loves me. though. and daddy
has never been so kind. so | guess
I'll get along all right-bnt ! hate
to think about seeing folks outside
again"
As the girl completed her story
she buried her face in the pillows
and he slender frame shook with
sobs. The mother. wet-eyed. showed
the way from the room.
Sullens, in the Mount Vernon jail,
dec AIRED the story OF Dorothy true
as she told it,
Il was drunk" was his brief ex-
PLANTATION. Il inherited taste for
whisky and Ernest Harrison knew
IL. Wheneve- he wanted to make
me do anything be would refuse to
give me anything to drink until |
did as he asked He promised me a
two weeks drunk If Kidnapped
Dorothy Holt did not intend 10
attack her | was to meet Harrison
on the railroad tracks and we were
going TO hold the girl until Judge
Holt agreed to let up on his proseeu-
ton of the blind tige- crowd | was
drunk though. and when he did not
show up went crazy, guess.
Vigilance Committee Formed.
In the meantime members of the
reform elemtnt of Salem. led by the
Rev l.. c. Mil er, a Methodist min
lister. are making plans to prosecute
the fourteen keepers Of unlicensed
liquor houses. among them brother
eff f nest Harrison. who were taken
in custody during the mobs dem
onstration against Sullens. A vigi-
lance committee has been formed
and the town council has given it
po ice power to eonfiseate any liquor
fonad for sale and to arrest the
owners OF the liquor.
The trial of Sullens and Harrison
has been set for April 2S. The charge.
against Sui ems is KIDNAPPING, which
carries the death penalty. Harrison
will be prosecuted on a charge OF
conspiracy
Additional charges against Harri-
son and Sullens connect them with
the murder OF Robert Miller. a well
known farmer, whose body was
found in a well. the throat cut, after
a months carousal in Harrison's re-
sort, in which he spent the entire
amount raised by mortgagng his
ia m.
II is probable that Sheriff Vurcell
wi ask for company of militia to-
act as guard during the trial Hun
dreds OF persons followed the tracks
Of Sullens and Dorothy Hot in the
soft mud along the railroad, and
plan has been formed, it is said, to
carry out the postponed lynchins
when the culprits are brought to
trial
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STORY OF ATTACK
.THAT ELIMINATED
.a,.. IN SALEM RIOT
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tween the eyes with his fist don t
remember much after that until
came to my senses again. don't
know how much later. It was all
sunshiRg outside and the birds were
singing. was a one and oh, so
sick and miserable My clothes we-e
torn all but OFF me. My face ached
from the beating he had given me
and there was bump oS the back
of my head like an egg. | was
alone
Can Only Mufmur Tom Su'lens.
II knew what had happened Al
arst | wanted to die. Then wanted
to find mother crawled out, found
my way TO the tracks and dragged
myself home Mother and daddy
had been out ooking for me all
night and met me on the steps. /
remember mumbing Tom Sullens
Tom Su'lens' over and over again.
before ! went faint again
have always been a good girl
and you can tell how | fell. | know
God will punish Sullens and Harri-
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-03-21
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One BRIGHT Spot.

An English clergyman was visiting
his parishioners, when one of them. an
old woman, informed him that since
they met shed gone through a sight
o trouble. Her sister was dead, and
there 'wor a worse job than that-the
pig died all OF sudden; but It pleased
the Lord TO TAX him, and they mum
bow. they nun bow" Then the poor
old lady frightened up, and said; But
there's one thing. Mester Allen, as l
can say, and ought to say, the Lord s
been pretty we'll on my side this win
ter for green's"
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Nature. Method Of Protection.

There have been brought to light
an astonishing number OF forms OF
fish, and especially of prawns OF bril-
liantly red color, living in the ocean
at depth of 1900 feet But, aston
ishing as 1t may seem. these brilliant
ly colored fish and prawns, instead of
being conspicuous in the water at
that depth, are nearly invisible, when
almost any other color could be easily
seen.
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