The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-12-03
A GIRL TELLS WHY
The Young Men of Today do not
Know How to Court Girl.


Know How to Court Girl.
This is tale for the earnest perusal
of every well-meaning boy-and girl,
for that matter. 1t deals with the man
ner in which the flighty youth acts at
times and is written by girl whose
criticisms, while no doubt severe at
times, are utterly unbiased and who is
not prejudiced, as some boys will in
sinuate, as she is most popular and num-
bers many of the "sterner" sex as her
friends. OF course, boys, this does not
mean you at all, you will probably think
that it's pretty good shot at "Will or
Frank, or Harry or the other fellow
for everyone knows you wouldn't think
of doing such thing. Still perhaps, it
won't hurt you to read it and-but we'll
let the article speak for itself:
Why do we call boys silly? Or, rather
why is it that so many girls nowadays
make such broad assertion as II
haven't met a really sensible boy in my
whole life" We surely mean it, for why
should we repeat it SO often? So natur-
ally there must be something in the
statement, although it is probably some
what an exaggerated one.
Boys do act silly when in the pres
ence of girl and there is no use de-
nying it. But what makes them do so,
when they claim to be so sensible other
wise? Is it because the girl is silly, as
the boys reiterate again and again?
We admit of course that some girls are
silly, and decidedly so but whole sex
cannot be judged by few, and this is
what the boys do and where the whole
trouble lies.
Nine boys out of every ten if engaged
in discussion will admit that they
think girls are silly. Naturally they
treat her according to this view, do and
say things which they think she will
like and appreciate, and earn for them
selves her bad opinion for their trouble.
Every girl likes to receive the compli-
ment from a boy of being sensible, but
they object seriously to being otherwise
regarded.
Let us begin at the beginning. When
a boy first meets girl-of course by
hoy and girl" I mean young people
with the ordinary amount of good sense
and at an age when they ought to know
how to behave-he talks about things
in general, as probably others are
present. He asks to call and for the
| first few times, nc. doubt her parents
are in the room. He exerts himself to
make a5good impression and of course
behaves very sensibly. She thinks he
is very nice young man and tells her
best girl friend that shes a dear" and
that she likes him very much and
remember so far he has said nothing
silly.
Next time he calls the old folks aren't
at home and they have the parlors to
themselves. He tries to be witty and
attempts to entertain her with would
be" funny stories. She laughs, of
course, and enjoys herself in way
but after he goes she doesn't feel like
calling him "dear" for she's tired and
| it was such hard work to laugh at some
of the stories.
The next time they take walk ask
a girl what that means. He tells her
how he enjoys her company, no other
girl like her, such beautiful eyes, such
| CT do +o h1
and more of this fiattery, thinking that
she likes it. Of course she does, at
] first, but here is where his Stiffness
comes in.
| He doesn't know when to stop.
| He tries to carry everything to ex-
| tremes, tells her lot of nonsense and
wants her to believe he hasn't said the
same thing to every other girl of his
acquaintance. She laughs and tries to
convince him how silly it is to talk such
flattery, but he persists in doing so
with the firm conviction that no doubt
he is more than pleasing her when he is
doing nothing but making spectacle of
himself.
Again the "sterner" sex are so senti-
mental, much more SO than the girls,
am sure. Boys seem to think that girls
have desire to be fondled and petted
as if they were some pet dog instead
of a human being and an equal. They
try to do the right thing as far as they
see it, but the right thing in their eyes
is not the same as in the girls eyes.
So you see it is all lack of under
standing on the boys part; he cannot
comprehend a girl, and he displays
sore want of judgment in almost every
thing he does, for he invariably makes
fool of himself by saying the wrong
thing to the wrong girl.