India, Sept. 27 -- "It is my misfortune to be red-haired...I love a lady that has the greatest aversion imaginable to that colored hair...What should I do?"

"Is it possible for one woman to love another as passionately and constantly as if the love were between different sexes?"

"I'm now courting a young lady who...drinks an insufferable amount of coffee, which I think is the reason for her coyness and aversion to my courtship....I beg your advice."

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