Old Spirituals advice columnist Miss Libbey is back with more stern guidance!

Dear Miss Libbey: I am in love with a young lady of 23. I am 29. I have no doubt she loves me as well, but we are both as backward and timid in the presence of one another as, we can be. She has turned me down three times, partly because of her being timid and partly because of false reports which she heard about me. She has found these were not true. Her folks have been trying to press matters, but every time she has turned me down it has made us that much more backward.
I believe love exists in her heart as well as mine. We have lived here by the side of each other about a mile apart for the last eight years, yet I have not tried to associate with her until about a year ago, when I found she was much older than I had expected. Kindly advise me how to come at this matter. In a few weeks I must go to Colorado to spend a good part of the next three years. I may spend a good part or all of my life there. ELMER.

Elmer, propose to the girl at once.  Overcome your timidity. Cultivate strength of character. Be firm. Tell the girl you are going away and wish to marry her before you leave.

Dear Miss Libbey: I am married and we are on our honeymoon. I think my husband acts foolish, as he is all the time hugging me or wanting to hold my hand or something foolish in public. I’m afraid when he is so much that way now he will soon get tired and then neglect it entirely in the coming years. What shall I do? I hate to say anything about it, as he might get angry, and still it worries me as he is too loving to last long. PEGGY.

I don’t think there is any danger of your husband loving you too much. I think the better plan would be to tell your husband that you think your love is too sacred a thing to be paraded in public. I don’t think there Is any danger of his growing tired of love in this way. It all rests upon you whether you will hold his love or not.

Dear Miss Libbey: I am an unhappy woman. I am 26 and have been married seven years. I dearly love my husband and I only wish he cared for me like he ought to. Of course, he says he does but he doesn’t show it.
I am always willing to do for him in any way. I try and be as kind as I know how and he curses me and has even gone as far as to strike me just because he thought he was right in a little argument we had. He is so cold toward me and I like to be loved, and I can’t stand this treatment any longer. He stays away from me nearly all the time. He says when he can’t go anywhere else he can go home. I have a dear Ittle girl of 3 and as I have no mother to go to will I still try and live with him? You can stand so much and then no more. I am so miserable.  V.

If your husband is unkind to you l would suggest that you see an attorney and have him talk to your husband.

Dear Miss Libbey: I am 22 and would like your advice on one thing. About two years ago I worked a good distance from home and had to ride on the street cars, and there used to be a girl on the car to whom I took a liking. Now, to my luck I met this girl this summer and have been keeping company with her ever since. I fell in love with her, and thinking of this flirting I had done with her I asked her if she remembered me flirting with her; she said no but, if she had, she would have flirted with me had she known what she does now. You advise me if I’m doing right or is this girl only a flirt? She is true to me and has been since I went with her. ROLAND B.

No, she is not a flirt. She didn’t evidently realize how cheap and common she was acting. She won’t do it again.

Dear Miss Libbey: I am 21 and have kept steady company with a young man of 23 for over two years. Now, I am very much in love with him, so much so that I feel I can never give him up. But oh, he does act so funny. Although he never goes out with other girls and repeatedly tells me that I can’t go with other men, he has never proposed or told me he loves me. If I receive a letter or a phone call from any other fellow he becomes very angry. The question is, shall I shake. him? I have had a position offered to me in California and would take it, but I can’t bear the thought of leaving him. I told him of it, but he laughed and said I loved my home and old friends too well to leave them for strangers. Dear Miss Libbey, will you answer soon and advise me what course to take? HELENA.

Better “shake” him, Helena. He is a selfish specimen, who wouldn’t count much in matrimony anyhow. Let him  go. Don’t waste time with men of his type. It is the surest way to be railroaded to old maiddom.