Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-10
TO PLEASE THE GIRLS.
READ THIS YOUNG MEN. BEFORE GOING OUT
TONIGHT.
Ono Who is "Very Solid" With the Opposite Sex
Lays Down Certain Rules of Conduct Which
He Claims VIII Make You as
SOLID" as he is Himself.
CommrcidI Adrs,tissr.

you must be generous; you must think
more Of them than you do Of yourselves.
OF course you'll say that you do that al
ready, aud Of course you're wrong.
You'd die for them, or you think you
would, though | wouldn't be afraid to
insure your lives against any such form
OF ending. Beside, they don't want you
to die for them. 4 dead young man is
q disgastingiy unintereSting object TO
live young woman. Don't think OF dy-
ing for them; live for them, and you'll
be solid without any necessity for a fU-
neral. To be sure, there is the great
hereafter to look forward to, but per-
haps you and they won't go to the same
slace. Be solid with the girls here II
you want to learn how 10 be solid with
tho angels hereafter.
BY being generous, l mean that you
must not allow yourselves 10 be under
obligations TO the dear creatures; still
more, you must do your best TO give
great deal more than you get.
Most OF you act as II girls we're made
for your special delectation, and that all
you have to do is TO accept the kindness
they are always offering.
A lot of you go about evenings, visit
ing the girls you like the best, and
wearing the nap off their par!or car
pets, aud driving your elbows into the
backs Of their family sofas, seeming TO
think that your company is sufficient
reward for all that the girls do TO make
life agreeable to you.
You pick your company, as II girl
hood was great picture gallery, in
which no fellow had anything to do out
select his favOrites and stare at them.
Girls are the finest pictures going:
there's no mistake about that, out If
you think they are going 10 be content
to sit like canvasses in frames for you
to stare at, you are tremendously mis-
taken.
They have eyes in their heads, and
they know hog when they see him, or
pretty soon after; the longer they wait
for this knowledge, the worst they will
make things for the hog.
Perhaps you think that it makes them
happy merely to have you around, and
perhaps you are right; there are girls
OF that kind, but they are not worth
getting solid with. You may not think
You will kick yourself for not having
clearer eyesight and better taste.
From the time you begin to pay at
tention TO any set OF girls, you want 10
study to please them, and you want 10
keep on studying as long as you live.
Don't try to get out Of it by saying
that you haven't much money, and that
everything that girls like costs an awful
lot.
The poorest OF you manage to find
money enough to keep yourselves solid
with the boys. You have some habit or
indulgence which you spend money TO
crafty. Think the matter over, and
make up your mind which You like best
the boys, your own pet qualifications,
or the girls. If you can't put the girls
first, you had better drop them. 1t may
be hard to do, but it's easier and less
humiliating than TO have them drop
you.
III you haven't much to do with, do
the best you can with what you have.
No more will be expected OF you than
what you can do.
Don't drop into sentimental dismal
ness because you can't buy an opera
box, like some city swell, or drive fast
horse, like some smart fellow In the
country.
It's not so much the cost Of what you
do as the way you do II, that the girls
will notice and talk about. IL you'll be
man enough 10 study girls tastes, and
gentleman enough to think about them
real hard, you will find ways OF showing
what sort OF stuff is 10 you, no matter
how poor you are.
Usually girls get up all the parties,
and the young men accept such affairs
as naturally as if they were meals at
home or the boarding house, or some
thing else to which they are entitled,
instead Of special courtesies which de-
serve special recognition.
1t isn't custom for q young fellow to
get up parties on his own account, but
he ought 10 have enough manilness and
manners to devise some way OF return
ing the compliment. II he can't do 1t
with his own purse and brains he can
get some other fellows to help.
Auy two or three clever young fellows
can find plenty of ways Of entertaining
or amusing their entertainers II they
will pool their brains and pocketoooks.
II they're not clever the best thing they
csn do is TO make themselves so as soon
as possible. for they can't ever expect
to be solid with the girls without clever
ness.
Don't imagine yourselves generous be-
cause you spend lot OF time thinking
what lovely things you would DO for the
girls IL you only had lots OF money.
ANY foel can do that, and yet die as
mean as . skinfiBt.
1t takes lot of thinking and work