The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-12

| Dear Mrs. Thompson am a widow,
| er OF only five weeks and | need your
advice. When nay wife was III she had
nurse who cared for her until the
| end. She was one of the most perfect
women have ever known and I'm de-
| sirous Of making her my future COM
| panlon. While there has been nothing
| said In regard to the matter, can
| truthfully say that | lover her with all
| Of my heart. Although have not seen
her. since my Wlfe's death, the thought
of her neat, trim figure is even now
| In my mind and would like most of
all In the world to see her pleasant,
pretty face once again.
Do you suppose II | wrote her she
would be offended? would give much
| to hear from her, but still am lit
tie ashamed to write for fear she would
not answer on account of 1t being
| such a short time since the death OF
| my wife. .5'
know loved my wife, but she is
truth | worshIped my first love and
would gladly have given my life to have
| saved hers, but this, of course, was
impossible. want to be the kind Of
| man my wife would have me be and
so | wish you would advise me. It is
the good women In the world who keep
the old thing forever revolving: Sin
| cereIy, J. B. P.
MY position with The News scimitar
is like this, Outsiders write me ques-
lions and l attempt to answer them.
Inete are many ways % 1ilanI tiaS 10y
replies satisfactory. risi, h9vSi az
personally would not do myself if
were in their position; secondly. If /
am not quite sure what 10 say, L
ADMIT IT. ana thirdly, II l Ihlnk my
self untitled to answer certain Lhlhgs
the encyclopedia. FRANKLY l can not
put myself in your position. II seems
| impossible to me for you TO nave Ialien
in love with one woman, While you sat
| at the deathbed of a wife whom you
profess to love Understand I'm not
| queer. However, my advice is this:
| A certain amount of respect is due the
| dead and although man has per
feet right to act as he pleases, I'm
two months more. Read and walk if
necessary, and when the movies open
| patronize them, but don't write the
nurse as yet. If you wait bit and
then later on court the woman and
marry her, you will feel better about it
afterward She also will think more OF
you for having waited.
Dear Mrs. Thompson-RecentiyI read
l
unhappness Of a GIRL who signed her
| self Regina. Her letter to you aroused
my passionate indignation. At first I
a state Of affairs actually exists in this
day and age.
| You, | noticed, said that you didn't
know how to advise her. You asked
her, | believe, to call upon you at the
| office. OF curse | don't know what you
finally told her, but my answer would
| have been this: Strike out for yourself,
let the cad Henry divorce you. He will
! II he has a spark Of manhood in him.
When this Is done, then, Regina, marry
the man whom you love; prove that you
are not coward. Abandon all thought
| of suicide, tear yourself away from your
present surroundings and make good.
| Get job-any girl with average brains
can clerk In store--Work In tele-
phone exchange or make living at Of
| flee work. Try It.
Memphis is a fine place; consider
what 1t has done for me. I'm for
eiener, alone, poor. and frendless;
| handicapped besides by physical IN
| trinity, but I'm working and making
| living. Behind me is home, house
| rather, which Is open to me. In 1t re-
| sides an aunt who made my days seem
| an eternity In the Dad place, SO ! am
| here. SHEIlA',
| Thanks Tor the letter. Regina has AL