St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-23
LOVE TO Be MASTERED
Aunt Polly Gives Points to the
Lads on How to Be So
cially Popular.
A Quiet Hint That Women Adj
mire a Man of Command
ing Cast.
The Spice of Doubt Good to
Keep Around the Castles
of Lovers.
Pretty Morning Wedding OF
DR.. Buckley and Miss
Kennedy.

A young man l know said to me the
other day: Nov. Aunt Polly, you are
so fond of giving advice; why don't you
give Young men some?' About what?"
l asked. 60" said he, "about-well
about how to be popular with women"
So | am going to do it. L am not
going to do it, though, for the sake OF
The men, but for the sake of the women,
fol men who do not know how to treat
the women they meet-are such hone
less bores that | want to help my sex
by limiting 10 some OF the sterner sex
how they may better their ways.
In the first place | want to tell you.
though in so doing L betray SacreCS
secret of my sex, that every woman
loves masterful man. | daresay the
Sabine women weren't at all unwilling
wives for the men of ancient Rome,
and the flaming of the Shrew'' has
more than one parallel in modern life.
A woman wants her own way. and,
being perverSe, tries to get it: but she
right soon despises the people who give
i'll to her. Therefore, my dear boy, if
you want woman to admire you, don't
be too humble. Make her feel that you
are man, and manly man. too. and
that. though you will serve her through
thick and thin, bear her burdens and
have dignity which must be regarded.
You will not be slave.
Women like manly men. l knew
girl once who refused man because
she found out that he could knit.
Physical manhood and moral manhood
are an irresistible combination. The
man who is broad-shouldered clean
limbed, pure-hearted, clear eyed, with
past no woman need blush for and a
future no woman need fear, is the man
women like
Don't know too much about affairs
feminine, my dear boy. Admire my
lady's gown, but blunder in describing
it. Don't know what bias folds or
Breton vests are. Be awkward if she
asks you to hold skein of yarn, and
never know what's fashionable. Make
her feel that you think she is adorable
in any gown.
Don't be too devoted. Never let her
the one woman you want to like you,
of cOurse-feel too sure of you. And
yet. let her feel that your word is absO
lutely to be trusted.
Use discrimination in your praise.
Don't laugh at every speech she makes.
else she'll think you don't know the
witty ones flom the serious ones.
Be-why, just be yourself. Somebody
Will be sure to like you-aye, more, to
love you. Don't think that even so old
woman as can give you infallible advice
for pleasing women. There are as many
kinds of women as there are varieties
of leaves Oh the trees. One woman will
hate you tor the qualities another loves
you for. just be manly, true and-I
whisper it-flalter her, my boy. If she
likes tiattery in blocks, give it her so.
Ii she likes it merely suggested by your
looks and your attitude. please her with
it so.
No woman OH earth but may be won
by tiattery. The hard thing is to know
what kind OF tiattery to give certain
kind of woman. Nobody can tell you
that. You must find it out by trying,
and IN the trying of it lies the danger.
Platter the women, my dear boy.
AUNT POLLY.