“I am a very young girl, only fourteen and a half, and I have no work and cannot get any. A young man that I know has offered to support me until I can get a position. Do you think it would be wrong in me to take his money? I only need four dollars a week, and he says he can spare it nicely. “Lizzie McC.” We would like very much to have you call upon us at the office of Messrs. Street & Smith before you decide to accept the young man’s money. We have no doubt but that he is perfectly honorable and can not blame you for considering his offer in your present distressed condition. Still, as we said at first, we must see you before advising you. “When I married a year ago my husband was getting ten dollars a week, and we seemed to have no difficulty in paying our expenses. Now he is getting twelve and we are constantly in debt, yet the household expenses are no larger than before. I am sure I do not spend a penny more than I did a year ago. How am I to find out where it goes to? I am sure my husband spends it. “Frances T.” We would advise you to start a petty cash account and try to get your husband to set down his expenditures. When you have accounted for every penny that you have spent during the week it will be his turn to do the same. If he refuses, you must talk to him kindly and try to show him how necessary it is to keep out of debt. Troubles like that have destroyed the happiness of innumerable families. There is a leakage somewhere in your husband’s pocket-book, but you can only find it with the aid of tact and kindness. If you command him to explain he is likely to be more extravagant than ever. “I am a saleswoman getting ten dollars a week, and I have a little flat for which I pay fourteen dollars a month. The expenses are pretty heavy, and I am often at my wits’ end as to how I shall pay them. A gentleman whom I know is anxious to board with me, and says he will give me five dollars a week for his room with breakfasts. I am eighteen years old and very much in love with this gentleman. Would it be improper for me to take him as a boarder? “Evelyn T. G.” It would indeed be very improper for you to take the young man to board. Can you not get a nice, congenial girl friend to go in with you and bear half of the expense? “Will you kindly answer the following questions which are worrying me greatly: How can a girl of fifteen tell when she is really in love, and how old a man ought she to marry? I have two lovers, a boy of seventeen and a man of forty. I like one as well as the other. Which shall I marry? “Amy.” We think you would be foolish to marry either. No girl of fifteen is fit to marry. Wait until you are old enough and wise enough to consider such a step, and, above all things, wait until you are sure you are in love. There will be no uncertainty when the right man comes along. You should develop your talents and graces in order to be ready for him.