Year: 1860

SOMETIMES we are IN the habit of COL
lating questions and answers from the
correspondence column of Noah's Times
and Messenger, New York. The best of
them are generally worthless enough, but
they are pearls along side of those weekly
published in the n. y. Ledger.


For instance, here is batch from the
latter:


QUERY RY:-should young lady, caught
| in shower of rain, accept a strange gen
tleman's escort with his umbrella, and
then continue an acquaintance thus be-
gun?


ANSWER No. If his manner was re-
spectful, she could accept the offer of his
umbrella, if he gave her his address, and
then return it to him on reaching home
Whether a future ncquuIutAnceshfp n might
be founded on the incident, must be de-
cidcd by circumstances of which, having
no knowledge of them, we cannot judge.


Query Should a gentleman, when in
troduced to lady in the open air, touch
his hat, or remove il?


| ANSWER THE latter, decidedly. If he
is too lazy to take that trouble, the ladies
would be better without his acquaintance.
| We refer, of course, to men who profess to
be governed by the usnges of polite so-
cicty. a very good man who has been
brought up and always lived in seclusion,
and is not familiar with these usages, may
not practice them, and he should not be
| judged by a conventional standard.
L. H.-It would be worse than eimpro-
| per" for you to marry man whom you
| do not love, simply because he is rich
Your parents do very wrong to urge you
to such an unnatural union One the
other hand. you should not marry the poor
young man whom you do love, without
! their consent, while you are under age.
| B. E.-When a couple of young persons
lady and gentleman-arc about to sep
arate, if the latter wants the lady to cor
respond with him, he should ask pcrmis-
sion to write to her, and request the favor
of reply. In no ordinary case would it
be proper for her to take the initiative.


ANxrous.-What is ''rather jealous
YOung man" to do who discovers another
! fellow with lady whom he likes? If he
really wants the girl for wife, he should
offer himself to her at once, and cut the


'other fellow" out.


SURsCRIBER.-What arc the duties of
groomsman? Nothing in the world but
immaculate gloves and shirt-bosom, black
| pants and coat, white crav0t and vest, and
great deal of whiSker, with enough of
assurance to make the most of all of them.


BETsY.-You have strange ideas with re-
gard to age. You say you are very igno-
rant. but are you so old that it seems
hardly worth while for you to learn any
thing. You also inform us that your age
is twenty-five years. Venerable Betsy
We assure you that, as it is never too late
to mend, you will never be too old to
learn. twenty-five years old! Why, Bet
sy, it is the very age when people can
learn best. If we should live to be nine
ty-two, we hope still to learn thing or
two.


JAMES says, "I am greatly troubled be-
cause n coquettish girl, who has quarrel
led with me, persists in keeping my pic
ture which she took without leave from
mutual friend" We do not know how
such an indelcate act on her part can COM
promise you, especially as it is known "by
81 mutual friend.' Let her keep the pic
ture. Such girl would enjoy your dis
quietude about it; and the best way to
punish her is to keep perfectly quiet, and
treat the whole affair with the utmost in
difference.


A YoUNG LADY, dnriouSly inquiries, in
case girl ascertains, after engaging her
self to young man, that he had broken
an engagement with another lady to whom
he was solemnly pledged, in order to make
love to her, what she should do? She
should act with very great circumspec-
ton. and begin by dismissing him at once
1t is not probable that such man would
ever be constant to any womaR, loug at a
time.


T. F.-The "tendency of your face to
break out in in pimples" should certainly
be put stop to, but we do not know any
sure remedy for the evil, unless it be tenn
pernteness in diet, cleanliness of person,
clear conscience, and mind at peace
with all the world. Perhaps, as you say
you are great student, 1t would be we'll
for you to pay more attention to watts
on the Mind" than TO what's on the face.


kSD1ASA.-It was proper for you to send