Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-07-16
HOW MANY TINES DOES
THE AVERAGE NAN PROPOSE?

, proposal and wears the rin2 he buys
! for her, chiefly. Prof. Thielman oplnes,
| to make the other girls jealous ana
| TO held possession of the ring. THESE
| engagements usually terminate iii
"spats." generally caused by jealousy
| on Cne side or The other.
That these secondary engagements
are not serious is attested by the fact
| that only fourteen out Of Prof. Thief.
! mans 2SO married girls in this period
of their careers-or girls that they
met in this period. OF the fourteen,
' nine were married at that stage, the
,, others went away. and returning ar
ter other clashes with CUPID sougi
ont the girls and renewed the en-
gagements.
The records show that over four
ffths of the men who propose 10
girls in that stage-generally be-
tween Is and 20 years of aseLare ac-
the girls are as tickle as the men. But
the large percentage Of acceptances
! makes more startling the extremely
small percentage of marriages re-
sutins.
How They Felt When Rejected.
The causes of rejection are numer-
Gus. but another man is the cause IN
! a majority of cases The rejection
period ranges from 81 to %. and the
! figures compiled from the experiences
| cf the 2SO show that a great many
bows leave their home towns and go
10 distant cities when ..thrown down
| by the young beauties. And the 2so
I seriously state that they were sfoels
| at that time and were not heart brck-
en-. but merely hurt as to their pride
and vanity They declare it WASH
love at all.
| There are some other STANCE sta
| tictics evolved from Prof. Thielman's
researches.
| He has learned that boys from IA
| to II generally propose to women
older than themselves, their love
being probably admiration for some
quality of mind or heart and purely
Platonic. After Il there is another
strange change-they begin to pro
pose to girls between the ages OF IA
and 1G. That stage lasts, apparently
until the young man reaches the age
of 20. when he commence to propose
without regard to age or previous
condition of servitude, as nineteen
confess that they proposed to their
mothers servants.
Another interesting feature Of the
Investigation is that boys generally
propose to fat girls until they reach
the age cf 20, and then begin to pro
pose to the thin Cnes. Prof Thiel
man did not attempt to get any such
statistics, so this discovery was a
complete accident and not all the 2S0
gave their experience. However
there were seventy-two who wrote
and stated that "they fell in love with
a fat little girl" with yellow hair, or
black hair, or blue eyes, as the case
might be. Thus at least seventy-two
imagined that plumpness is the mark
of beauty.
How to Distinguish Real Love.
The investigation has thrown more
light on the question of how man
shall know when he really is in love.
The huge majority of these proposing
men declare that during their ear
her proposals they had no trouble in
asking a girl to wed. They could ask
her without Quiver, but when it
came to asking the real girl it was
different Most of them claim that
they were scared to death and dc
net remember clearly what they said
Which may indicate. although Prof
Thielman does not say so, that a
man who feels scared to death
when he asks a woman to marry him
has the real article of love.