Show questions from rosebud I 1 found your questions and answers last sunday 1 I did not know they were in there until a friend ot mine told roe about them I 1 think they are BO nice tor young biks to read I 1 have been going with a girl twenty years old but eho seems to be no older than myself 1 I am thirteen we al ways went with the boys together but she married recently and do you thank dijt all right for me to go to theaters at night alone with a boy my mother does not approve of me having corn pany very much do you think it any harm bof a boy to kiss a girl I 1 sup pose you think I 1 am rather a flirt but I 1 just wanted your opinions on it I 1 hope you won t think I 1 have asked too many questions rosebud A mother is ifs perfectly right who disapproves of a thirteen year old girl going alone at night to the theater dont do it and dont allow boys to kiss you it Is decidedly common and bred and no boy of good birth and breeding who has the least respect tor the girl asks her to do it so it you are going with that kind of a boy you had better stop the correct answer please state in your column the meaning of R S V P and how to reply to this invitation MRS J M SMITH MRS R T jonea at home february twenty second three 0 clock R S V P to whom should answer be ad dressed mrs W the meaning of R S V P isian english the favor of a reply Is requested it you please j the french Is dez s 11 plait it Is uses to remind us that hostesses wish an answer to their invitations in the case you mention regret or accept to the one whose name heads the list as it la probably at her home where the reception will be held for a bride elect I 1 am a young girl ot twenty and of very limited means I 1 have a very dear friend who Is going to be mar aled could you please suggest something that I 1 might give in her honor I 1 enjoy your columns immensely M R J surely entertain for your friend just because your purse Is a bit light is no reason tor not giving good times to others ask the girls to bring a dish towel apiece and mark the same for the bride elect then about five serve a tray with tea and two kinds of sandwiches add candles and salted nuts and you will have buffi dent and girls love these cosy times name for girls club would you kindly suggest a few names tor a social club of girls rang ing from the age of fifteen to seven teen poppy one of the dearest lot of girls I 1 know who meet as a little club call themselves the happy hearts so I 1 think perhaps this name will just suit you concerning a wedding at a home wedding should the grooms attendant deliver to the pas tor who performs the ceremony the wedding fees when the marriage certificate Is given him or after the cere mony Is over please accept my thanks tor your answer through your paper A con stant reader give the minister the fee when the business is settled just before the emony tor usually there Is no good opportunity afterwards initials always proper Is silver to be given a bride always engraved with the initials of her maiden name Is her first name per to use M L yes both silver and linen bear the initials of the bride near and dear friends sometimes use the first name and a pet cognomen la en graved on a personal gift this Is done an silver picture frames which are much in vogue at present presumably to hold the husband elects photo graph to misa brown eyes begin your letter dear mr blank t Is much better than to use his first tame until you become more intimate friends and sign yourself sincerely yours I 1 think the elderly man can give you costly without its being tew elry but of course that is tor you nd your family to decide I 1 see no harm in writing to the friend you mention after be writes to you first MADAME merrt |