The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-06

with the first breath of the icy outer world. If they are driving she huddles up in her corner of the carriage and tries to feel warmer. Perhaps, if she be girl of uncertain temper, she even in- sinuates, delicately, that he is responsi- ble for her chilliness; that he really ought to have ordered better weather.
 If they are walking she may be tri- file less chilly-in two senses, but it's equally impossible for the man to make love.
 Let's run," she may suggest, pres ently, and after that-well, girl may look fairly adorable with cheeks flushed by exercise and eyes alight with laugh ter, but she isn't in the mood to make love to. Besides, they get home shortly and, of course, no farewells are pro- longed in cold weather. Street cars, trains. public conveyances of any kind, are worst of all, often. They're nearly always cold and clammy; the man has no chance at all.
 Skating is no better. They float over the ice, glittering, fairylike, sparkling, hand in hand and together: the moon- light and starshine enchant them; they are filled with the beauty of the night. The man is filled with most tender feel ings also, but they're not the least use to him. Going home, they seem much alone, near in heart and soul and spirit. Her hands are nearly always cold at this juncture, and perhaps she slips one into his big pocket. After much hesi- tation and faltering, timidly he ven- lures to slip his own hand in also, too but once more the anti-Cupid demon of cold weather steps forward and spells it all.
 "Br-r-!" says the girl, suddenly snatching away her hand and begin ming to trot on in front of him. My feet are just freezing! If we don't get along a little faster I shall die"
 Or it may be that the man is a chilly creature, physically, whose soul freezes up in the autumn and doesn't thaw out until spring. There are men who dis like and suffer from cold weather so in- tensely that they're never really them selves, let alone at their best, until the ice breaks, and whose miidest cold weather expression is a growl. Let such one beware of any attempt at midwinter love-making. Not every girl is sufficiently psychic to comprehend his cold-weather crossness, nor sufficiently in love to forget that winter comes around annually with just the same regularity as spring. This unfortunate fellows hands are so cold always that he wouldn't sense it if a girl did slip her hand through his arm little ten derly or neglect to put the width of the pavement between them if his chilly fingers happened to touch hers. He hasn't the ghost of show, this poor sinner. His only hope is to court, pro- pose to and marry some warm-natured girl off-hand between April and octo- Der or to do his wooing in California or the tropics. 'Strolling through the shady larles'' of the much-lauded sum- mer represents his sole and single pos. sibility of ever inducing the least diffi- cult and exaeting >.'baby mine" ol 'tootsy-wootsy',' in creation to become his ''for keeps" r:
 And so it goes-and goes on. The winter is no time, for love-making The most that the ordinary man can expect to do istto hold his ground until the spring-tinie. It's difficult matter to be warm and 5eordialr-to say noth- ing of adoringf and feryid-in manner while ones feet and hands are freez' ing; to make effective love with cold chills giving the voice unreal tremors is literally impossible.