The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-02

CO1u1N1-OO1 N1IkL nv
OF HER KEEN GUESSES.
= Copyrighted, 1908, by Robert Howell
RusseIl.)
My daughter. We start for the CouE-
try next Week" said the elderly So
,ciety Bird to her little Chick. us to
the Summer Hotel for a bang-up Suite
at q per Diem Rate that will put a
large. deep Crimp into Papa's Income
for 1903. You are now at the Pm
Feather Period and Mother must teach
Won how to Fly. I "a been giving a
lot of Hard Thought to the Man Game
for Ia these many Moons and, without
passlng myself any fragrant Cluster OF
Green peas, I think 1 am On. Every
Woman of Experience has a private
Rogue's Gallery. She can give you a
Line on the whole BunkO brotherhood
from Sammy the Sophomore, VINO
wears a Buckwheat Cake instead OF q
Can. I'D to the decrepit old Has-Been
who wants to hold your Hand because
Won look so much like his Daughter.
Taking the whole Outfit. from Seven
teen TO Seventy, L may add that they
are the grandest Bunch of Shel-Nork-
ers that ever operated. You are i Mere
Child of 10 with a Baby Stare and 4
Simple Faith in Mankind and You arr
due TO be Strung unless you Copper
about fOur-thirds of all that is said TO
YOU. There will be enough Hot Air
wasted around that Hotel this ummer
to keep Il Flat Building nice ahO warm
all rext Winter. 1t behOo"es you TO De
Foxy otherwise you Will be engage
10 So many at one time that you VIII
get twisted in your Book Keeping ana
everyday your System. You must not
be chummy with any Gentleman untIl
you have known him at least Two
Days"
NO doubt 1 shall make many Mis-
cues" said Isabelle, " and yet l am
willing to Experiment.
Il suppose you understand that IN
order to be strong with the various
Kind that Will be on your Ira!i' you
must lcarD to be 4 Qulck-Change
Artist" said Mother. For instance
there is the Spring Lamb with the
Stlngy little coat and Big Shoes. He
is just home from College and Whe1
he waIks along the Eeranda, 1t SOUNDS
like a Team going over a Brius4: - -
one of those Squads should ~
pursue YOU, what would o do"
II am so inexperienced, [ hardly
know what to say" replied little lsa-
belle. Il think, however, that L would
tie a large al to him. unless there
was a horrible Shortage IN the supply
and I had to throw in a few Under
studies. AS a rule the ~pink-faced Col
legian is a little shy on Collateral ana
more OF less of Il Dummy on any Ioplc
except Himself. The way to make a
with him is to feel OF ms
Muscles and tell HIM how We'll nus
Clothes fit. If you jolly him UP LOT
three or four Days, you may get a nice
photograph of him and then he VIII
hone YOU for one in Return. ana nan
if I'D in his Den and tell all the otner
JOhnnies that you are Crazya Dout mn.
The Trouble with the Glad Conese
Youth is that he has been plucked q
little too soon. Besides, L don't thlnk
y Man starts in to be Good Company
unil he is past %
And some of them have a few ON
to pick up after they pass 90 addeu
Mother. You seem to be wise 10 t the
very Young Kind. How o the
Rachelor with the Tremolo Voice VINO
wants to sit about six inches away
from you all the time and look you
straight in the Eye and tell you tnat
Life was a Desert until he bumped into
you" .bo
Red Light" replied Daughter I've
haen ont among EN- only two Seasons,
but rye taken that Boys Measure all
right, all light. He's the klnd lhdt
wants YOU to lean on his a1lG
tell all your Troubles to a true Frienu
after he has known you about ~ MIN
utes. and if YOU hang back he Is Hurt
and seems TO think that you do nm
an Injustice. He has got away WITH II
so often that his Nerve is un ana as
for the Hufty-Duftv Talk that ne mas
learned by Heart. it is the hlnu car
cuIated to make Il Girl aShamed OF her-
self unless she starts right in and loves
him with her whole Soul He Is q
pretty dangerous Proposition You car
saw Scat to Ferdie the Freshman OF
else send him on an Errand, but MI
Arthur Fresh who is getting along to-
ward so is so accustomed to the Throw
Down that he arises. dusts his Clothes
and comes back with u Genial smile
and treats the whole Incident as ]
Joke. Then. if you Repent and try tt
Suuare yourself. the Chances are ina
ne will wait until YOU peSln TO act ISd
FrieudIv and then he Will give You tn'
Ross and hike off after some new Ger
aIdiue This kind likes TO switch 1roH
a BLOND to a Brunette about ever!
third Day"
"NercifuI MayOnnaise, eNclaitie'
Mother. L don't believe am QuaiIle,
10 sit on the Side-Lines ana 90 an!
roachinc for YOU. You seem TO D.
Next. Did they teach you all MS =
Boarding SCHOOL,
Don't give it way. said\ lsabelle
b u I'll tell YOU or the q I that W
have what Is knOwn as the FroteclH
Order of Buds. The Trifter VINO SOe
I'M and down the Line sprlnglng III
Guff about Love At First Sight
spotted and tagged in 4 Hurry. 1ner
are two ways of handling this PartS
one is TO spring his Record on him an
Kid him until he lets up The other !
10 believe everything and string M
along. The Second Method Is the on
usually employed by all True Artists
The older the Bachelor the Digger III
Cinch. Hold on to one Of his Goa
Buttons and look up at MIN and as
him a lot of feeble-minde6 Queitl"il
about the Wicked World II he WI
talk for Hours at Il Time. But IN
Minute the u goes down, you val
TO veil for a Chaperone unit! you ca
be heard in the next Township ms
will lead him TO believe that he Is
fascinating II dangerous Person
is always a terrific Hit. I know tT