The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
C0URTSHIP MARRIAGE
By BETTY VINCENT

Dear Miss Vincent: I am a girl of 19, have black hair and dark brown eyes, and am considered at tractive. I am not a flapper but dress very neatly. I have been going around with a fellow one year my senior and we love one another dearly We frequently quarrel but that is because he Is jealous of me. Lately someone told him I was going about with another chap. This is not true but he refuses to come and see me. He lives two blocks from me and often meet him. He tips his hat but passes me by. I love him still and want to know what to do to win him back. A. D."
 It is well to remember that mak- ! ing a man jealous does not help to increase his admiration. If you do not run around with other chaps he will, In all probability, call upon you again.
 Dear Miss Vincent: Not long ago I met a saxophone player at a dance. He lives about IS miles from our suburbs and asked me to attend a dance where he was to play. We have corresponded ever since then. He never says he loves me but we enjoy each others company What can I do to make him declare his love or at least know whether he is serious? BERTHA.''N
 Do not rushtmatters. Take every mans friendship as platonic until he tells you more.
 "Dear Miss Vincent: Is there any place in a crowd for an old-fashioned girl? I am 17 and go to business where there are several men but do Won't you help me? LONESOME.
 As rule business people do not have time for social life. The best way to make friends socially is to join a club, church or to make friends with peighbors.
 Dear Miss Vincent: Ishould like to give a birthday gift to a young man whom I became acquainted with about a year ago and who has taken me. out great deal. Will you be kind enough to offer suggestions as to what would be appropriate? Also I would like to know if 1t Is correct to have Miss on ones personal card, and if it Is necessary to write the middle name in full or in initial only. I am twenty-one years old.
 "C. MARCUS" I
 Unless the young man has given you a present 1t is not necessary to give him birthday present. If he has given you several gifts you might l give him a leather card case, bill- l fold a book or any little present which is not too personal. In regard to calling cards it is quite the thing to have Miss" before your name. This is a social custom which helps to distinguish between the maid and the matron. There is no set rule about middle names or initials. This l is matter of euphony If your name is short and sounds well with the middle name. add it. If your first name is too long including this middle name, it is better to drop 1t altogether.
 Dear Miss Vincent: For almost eight years I have known a chap whom l like quite well. During our entire friendship the question of kissing has never come up until about a month ago when he asked for kiss. l should like to have your advice as to whether 1t is proper or not for me to permit kissing. Would the fact we have known each other so long make any difference?
 BELLE" It is always most unwise for the 1girl to begin the kissing game until the young man has declared his in- l tentions. Kissing is one of the privi- leges of the engaged man. Therefore, l if I were you, I would wait until your eight-year- old friendship means something to you like an engagement or an understanding before I per nojtted 1xieSinpr