The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-19
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
Lessons in Love Making.
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Don't do your spooning in public.
Recollect that wedding-ring on
your finger is worth good many of them
in your mind.
Try to find out by some means
whether your intended knows how to
earn decent living for two.
Be reasonable; don't expect a man
working for So week to furnish you
with reserved seats at the opera every
other night.
Don't be afraid to show the man of
your choice that you love him-pro-
vided, of course, he loves you. Love
is double-sided sort of concern, and
both have part to play.
Don't try to bring too many suitors to
your feet. They have feet as well as
you have, and you may see one pair of
feet walking off from you some day you
would be very glad to call back.
Keep your temper, if your expect your
other-half-in-law to keep his. If he
doesn't suit you give him ticket-of-leave
If he does suit you don't expect him to
put up with your humors.
Deal carefully with bashful lovers /;
lead them gradually to the point (of
proposal, of course), but don't let them
suspect what you are at, or they might
faint on your hands, or go crazy on the
spot.
1t is said lovers quarrels always end
with kisses. This is partly true; but if
you are not careful those little spats
you indulge in may end in the kisses
you covet being given to some other
girl
If it is possible, try to suit your sis
ters, cousins, aunts, grandfathers, neigh
bors, friends and acquaintances when
you happen to fall in love. If you can't
suit them all, don't worry, for the thing
has never been done yet.
If you use powder, don't give your
self away. For instance, it would be
well to spread a handkerchief over the
shoulder of his broadcloth before you
lean thereon. He will be too green,
depend on it, to suspect the reason. If
his mustache happens to look a little
powdery, there ale several ways in which
it could be brushed off.
Don't imagine that husband can
live as a lover does-on kisses and
moonlight. He will come home to his
meals hungry as bear, and any little
knowledge of cookery you can pick up
during courtship is about the best pro-
vision you can make for future happi-
ness.
Remember that nature has put every
man under the necessity of having
mo her, and that the latter is not in any
way to blame if she is regarded as the
bitter part of a sugar-coated matrimo-
nial pill. If you feel in duty bound to be
her sworn enemy postpone this duty
till you know something about her.
Don't seek advice'in love affairs from
an old maid who has been crossed in
love, a bachelor who has been Tilted, a
woman who married her husbands
pocketbook, or a man who happens to
be henpecked. Don't confde in your
girl friends; to keep a secret in love
affair would kill them. Don't consult
your minister; he'll have the marriage
fee in view. If you go to your family
physician he will say your liver is
affected in place of your heart. If you
must get instructions from somebody
why not ask your mother how she used
to manage things with you father? True
love didn't run any smoother in old
times than it does to-day, and, since she
knows how it is herself, we can't think
just now of any better way to advise
you.