The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-17
SOMETHING TO KNOW.
SIGNS or BUDDING LOVE.
How Man Can Be Sure Of q
Girl

eI1rl.
Dear boys, says lady writer, many
of you complain lugubriously that you
cannot tell when girls really like you
because they are so disingenuous. One
young man says that they frequently
say don't" when they mean do" and
vice versa-and thus man is blindly
led to run up against a snag" and
STUBS his toe" The young mans Ian
guage is. Of course, fgurative, and there
is no need for me TO explain what he
means to men of your intelligence.
The signs of budding love, dear boys.
are not what they used to be. Thosa
little red signals are seldom seen hung
out on round cheeks, neither will you
see her sitting at midnight at her bed
room window-unless there should be
a fire in the opposite fat. But there
are still signs.
One is a tendency to meet you very
often, and, of course, quite accident.
ally. You will find her down in Wall
street deeply interested in a shop OF
lawyers supplies. She will suddenly
face you. and, as you tip your hat. show
extraordinary surprise, such as is only
exhibited upon the stage when the
wronged heroine meets the frock-coat.
ed author of her ruin on the Thames
embankment. She viii drop her peck
etbool. umbrella, samples and the
latest royel and say:
''Why, Mr.. Lorrimcr, where on earth
did you drop from?''
1t is hardly necessary TO state that she
knows quite well that your Office is just
around the corner, but if you know tina:
she knows that-ta}<e care. young man.
Now is your time for the untruthful-
ness that have before advised. Ifyo1
have tact you Will inform her that your
Office is just around the corner, but that
she is evidently unacquainted with that
portion of the city. She viii also show
deep interest in your autograph and
over it you will write seven lines OF
EmerSon-which you don't understand
in little plush-covered booklet O.
hers. She will ask if you made them
NJ yourself" and you viii feel swfullv
sorry that you didn't. She will ask
your opinion earnestly on books. Take
care TO have some. even If you borrow
them of some voluble friend Women
always have opinions on books. even
though they haven't read them. and
often they read them Just 10 have opin-
ions. Oh. yes. they're very strange in
their methods She VIII find remark
able likeness in you TO dear friend o;
hers. She viii gaze musingly az you
and then turn to her dearest wornan
friend and exciairn:
Maud, dear. d'you know who NJ.
I.orrimer reminds me off,
Maud. as q dutiful friend, VIII as-er.
that you are certainly like some one,
but for the life of her she can't say
whom. The girl who is interested IN
you. however. viii find tina. you are dis
trsctirEiy like gentleman Of an ear
lier era. and she will add. incidentally.
that he was very nice-looking. I: YOU
are fsyorite with women YOU will find
that you are always being considered
very like some other man. The natural
deduction would be 20 conclude that
YOU must be a very communicating
fellow. bu. that isn't what they mean.
Il is merely a wonan's wsv of letting
sou know that you are the type she
approves of. These are some of II.
signs of budding love.
And, there are oth~E-S Y World