Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-02-18
HOW 70 PLEASE THE GIRLS.
Some Plain Talk to Young Men Who
Think Themselves Pretty Poor

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 keeI
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 gratif.
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, or drive fast
uOlSo LAC SOuc oAAdII lcilOW LII tAc
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 comph-
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 will pool their brains and pocket
books. If they're not clever, the best
thing they can do is to make themselves
so as soon as possible, for they can't ever
expect to be ''solid" 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 skinflint. 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
srettes, you can afford to do the proper
thing for the girls. One common cigar
q day costs as much as two good theater
tickets month. Fewer scarfpins mean
more bouquets, and one bouquet will go
further toward making you ''solid' with
a girl than 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 a ride or two for the girl,
who will care more for one ride than for
Ill the clothes you may try to show off
n. 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
he dear creatures, you must put your
into your manners as well as
nto your doings. Don't act, as good |
many young fellows do, as if you were
laying a debt when you do anything |
nee for the girls. for whatever they do
or You isn't for pay-it's a gift, and
must be returned in the same spirit if |
you wish it to be welcome. Always do
courteous deed as if you were receiving |
/ favor, for that's what it ought to ap- |
,ear to your mind, and that's what it
'eally amounts to if you are the right |
ort of fellow. There are some young
men who pay their social debts with the
Iir of man paying bill, and the girls |
re very quick to catch on to that sort |
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