The Washington times., 1914-05-05

To Girls
BY ANNIE LAURIE.

Dear Annie Laurie:
/ have been going out with a man
for the last year who likes an
other girl not living in the same
place. He has told me all about
her. and he writes to her and goes
to see her two or three times year.
He Is not in love with her. He
wants to kiss me, and yet by doing
so he thinks he Is deceiving her.
What should I do about It? Shopd
1 allow him to kiss ine. or should 1
give him up altogettkr? l don't
want to do that, but 1 want to do
what is right. ANXIOUS.
~ DOR little Anxious. I'm afraid
- this man Of yours isn't yours
at all. And no one elses-but
his own. He isn't telling you
little girl. you?
girl and doesn't pretend to be. how
can he deceive her by making love to
you?
You're pretty. probably. and inter
esting, and he likes to have a nice, at
tracrive girl to take out with him.
and SO he takes you out and fbs to
you about the other girl.
Tho only thing for him to do Is to
mako up his mind which girl he likes
the best-tell the other one the truth
But that is what that sort Of man
will never do.
He'll go on hbbing to you and tell
ing stories to the orner girl, and by
Il fourth. and the first thing all four
o. you know he'll be married to some
E1dy you never heard of-and she's the
one to pity, for that sort Of man keeps
that sort Of thing up as long as he
lives.
Give him up, Anxious. and give him
up now.
Poor Patient Maidens," and yet, my
dears, I'm afraid that is just what
you'll have to remain. If your friends
want to come to see you they'll find
the time and the occasion very soon,
%i Wonldnt n ' be- any n fun S for You W Thi to have n
them. II they want to slip away let
them go without any discussion and
argument. That is the dignified thing
to do, and in the end the way most apt
to hold them.
Dear I. L.: Write to your friend and
ask him to tell you what is the mat
ter. Perhaps there Is something
troubling him that can be Strengthened
out; but, on the other hand, he may
be just plain Tickle and have lost his
head over another girl. II that's the
case, put the young man right out OF
your mind, and the best way to do that
is to take another young man or two
or three other young men in.
Dear Annie Laurie: am engaged to a
young lady whom at one time I was
greatly in love with but recently I
have become disinterested. I know that
my love was not true for II 1t was 1
would still love her. She still thinks q
great deal of me, and I have tried to
hide from her my change of feeling. 1
know 1 should go to her and tell her
that 1 do not love her, but I do not
like 90 cause her any pain, for I know
she still loves me. and at present I am
deceiving her. which Is very repugnant
the engagement without causing her
any pain. She does not live in this
city but in a nearby town, and l have
been going to see her about once
month. Strange though II may seem,
there is no other girl concerned in tho
sion. for l realize now that 1 never
really loved her. / would indeed he
thankful for any help you may give me
in this case.
CONSCIENCE STRICKEN.
My Dear Conscience Stricken: Don't
you see that you are asking the i'm
possible? It must always give a girl
pain to find that the man she has
chosen does not measure up as he
should to the highest standards. And 1t
is rather weak. don't you think. not to
know your own mind better? However,
You have come to the place where 1t Is
question of choosing the lesser of two
evils. 1t is certainly much fairer to
tell the girl that you no longer care for
her than to marry her out OF sense
of duty and then blame her for It all
what you would probably do. You may
hurt her cruelty in the telling, but
she'll get over that some day and ap-
parently she is bound to be hurt either
way.