The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-19
HOW TO PLEASE THE GIRLS.
Some Plain Talk to Young Men who
Think Themselves Pretty Poor

HOW ~ FLEHOC TIE 1iHLS.
Some Plain Talk to Young Men Who
Think Themselves Pretty Poor.
From the time you begin TO pay atten-
ton to any set of girls you want to study
to please them, and you want to 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 every
thing that girls like costs an awful lot.
The poorest of you manage to find
money enough to keep yourselves on good
terms 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 gratifi-
cations 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. If 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, OF drive fast
horse like some smart fellow in the
country. 1t is not so much the cost of
what you do as the way you do it that
the girl Will notice and talk about. If
you'll be man enough to study girls
tastes and gentleman enough to think
about them real hard, you will find
ways of showing what sort of stuff is
in 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 something
else to which they are entitled, instead
of special courtesies, which deserve
special recognition. 1t isn't custom for
young fellow to get up parties on his
own account, but he ought to have
enough manliness and manners to devise
some means of returning the compli-
ment.
If he can't do it with his own purse
and brains he can get some other fellow
to help. Any two or three clever young
fellows can find plenty of ways of enter,
tanning or amusing their entertainers If
they viii pool their brains and pocket
books. If they're not clever, the best
thing they can de is TO make themselves
so as soon as possible, for they can't ever
expect to be "sold" with the girls with
out it.
Don't imagine yourselves generous be-
cause you spend time thinking what
lovely things you would do for the girls
if you only had lots Of money. Any
fool can do that and yet die as mean as
a skinfint. 1t takes thinking and work
and self denial for any one to be gener
Gus unless he has a great deal more
money than he knows what to do with,
and nobody ever knew a man as rich as
that Besides there are plenty of ways
of doing nice things for the girls with
out spending much money, and you'll
find out some of them if only you'll be
generous with your time and wits.
If you can afford cigars, or even Gig
arettes, you can afford to do the proper
thing for the girls. One common cigar
day costs as much as two good theater
tickets month. Fewer scarfpins mean
more bouquets, and one bouquet viii go
further toward making you solid with
girl than a whole jewelers. case full of
scarfpins.
a suit of clothes little less costly than
the one you meant TO buy will save you
the price of ride or two for the girl
who will care more for one ride than for
all the clothes you may try to show of
in. A girls own clothes are all she can
pay attention TO. unless the others are
shabby or fit badly.
No matter what you do, though, for
the dear creatures, you must put your
generosity into your manners as well as
into your deings- Don't act. as good
many young fellows do, as if you were
paying d debt when you do anything
nice for the girls, for whatever they do
for you isn't for pay-lt's gift, and
must be returned III the same spirit If
You wish it TO be welcome. Always do
Ii courteous deed as If YOU were receiving
4 favor, for that's what 1t ought 20 ap-
pear to your mind. and that's what ii
really amounts 10 if You are the right
sort of fellow. There are some young
men who pay their social debts with the
air of man paying bill, and the girls
are very quick TO catch on TO that sort
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