The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-12-12
HOW MEN MAKE LOVE.


Your yfenchman IL the Most D0lloat0 and
Persistent Of suitors.
"a Frenchman is the most delicate
and persistent of suitors, {" said Marie Hal
ton, the Franco-American opera bouffe
singer, in recent interview to New
York World reporter. "Repel his ad-
vances and he redoubles his attentions.
If you treat him coolly, his bouquets
generally increase in size and beauty.
Not sll at once, mind you. He does
nothing to create surprise and put the
object of his sentimental attack on the
qui vive. Your true Frenchman is an
artist In love as in every thing else.
The bouquet increases in size almost i'm
perceptibly day by day, and delicate at
tentions Of all kinds which serve to
soften the perverse heart Of woman
are multiplied after the same careful
and mathematical fashion. The amount
Of time Frenchman will give to the
besieging of citadel is, in itself, the
most delicate compliment he can pay to
the object of his devotion. And it is for
this reason that Frenchmen are usually
successful in their love affairs. Men who
at first acquaintance are positively dis
tasteful succeed in mingling their per-
sonality after a time SO thoroughly with
multitude Of pleasing attentions that
the first unfavoiable impressions are al
together obliterated.
carries into his love-making the ideas
which have proved successful in his
business. His chief object seems to be
to save time. He measures his success
in love not so much by what he captures
as the time he has expended in winning
victory. He is in the habit of taking
every thing for granted, and, what is
worse, plainly shows in his manner that
he does so. No woman wants q man to
think that she is easily won, and no
mode Of proceeding could be more i'm
polite The American is introduced to
lady, and in half an hour expects to
be treated like lifelong friend. 1 be-
lieve that in your American game Of
poker what you call 'bluffing' is very
ordinary mode of procedure. AS I un.
derstand it, 'blufiing' is an attempt to
convince your opponent that you have a
mortgage on all tho cards in the pack
worth having, and you really have moth.
ing. That illustrates my point perfect
ly. An American carries the game OF
bluff into his wooing. He practically
says: Il hold all the winning cards, and
when get ready will simply lean over
and collar the pot And he says this
with confident air highly exasperating
to his opponent, who, Of course, in this
case, happens to be the lady.
SIN the matter of presents the Ameri.
can is also very different from the
Frenchman. He is more lavish than
extravaganza. But he shows little or
no discretion. A Frenchman is intro.
duced to q lady upon whom he is de-
sirous of making good impression. The
next day he sends her bouquet OF
choice flowers and the next q box OF
bonbons. 1t may be weeks after the in.
PRODUCTION before he will make call,
and the diamond stage Is reached only
after months of acquaintanceship
When an American meets lady he de.
sires to win he will call the following
day and bring diamond brooch OF
bracelet. The day following he will
send grand piano or any thing else
which happens to strike his fancy.
Should he receive no encouragement
from the lady of his choice, he does not,
as in the case of the Frenchman, con-
tinue sending presents until his per-
sistence compels recognition. He SIM
ply transfers his attentions to some
other quarter.
"The difference between Frenchman
and an Englishman may be seen by the
way each looks at woman on horseback
A Frenchman looks first of all at the
woman; an Englishman first of all al
the horse. The American looks at both
together"