Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-02

Here, boys. are some rules for court
ing your sweetheart as laid down by a
ST. Louis magistrate, whose decision is
practically an injunction against Dan
Cupid. Some of them may prove costly,
but they look good. However, you may
take them for what they are worth:
Send violets once week, with note
asking permission to call.
Invite her mother to accompany you
to the theater.
Show the same Difference to the girls
parents as to your own
Don't insist on her giving up all her
friends SO as TO be with you.
Don't act as If you owned her, but
treat her s a comrade.
Call at least twice a week, and send
her some little token or note every day
Take her among your relatives and
friends and praise her to them.
Help her choose her rousseau, and
permit her to select the engagement
and weddings rings.
Judge A. N Blyer Is responsible for
them. His jurisdiction does not extend
outside of ST. Louis, so young men liv-
ing elsewhere need not heed If they
have different ideas of steering straight
Loves boat on a sea that has ever
proved troublesome, If not dangerous.
1t is the first time on record, the de-
partment of justice experts say, where
judge has taken it upon himself to
interfere with Cupid's whims in such
manner. However, Edward Moore
has been ordered to do his counting as
Judge Blyer wants 1t done or be in
danger of contempt proceedings.
Magistrate Blyer is married-for the
second time-and in addition to being
an able administrator of justice, he is
well qualified to speak in matters per-
tanning to courtship, for, as he modest
ly admits, he has courted and won two
of the fairest women in Missouri, and
therefore knows whereof he speaks,
needing no other authority than his
own experience to quote in handing
down decisions referred to him from
Cupid's court.
The case of Teener VS.. Moore was one
of the interesting ones brought into his
court recently. Miss Cora Teener, one
of the prettiest girls in the south side
of st. Louis, was in love with Edward
p. Moore, who was employed by one
of the street car companies. Miss Tee
ner lives with her aunt, Mrs. Amelia
Giddings, and is-or was-employed in
one of the big downtown stores.
1t so happened that during her rides
down town in the morning she fire.
quently caught the car on which Moore
was conductor, and after she had been
catching the car two or three times a
week for a few months she suddenly
began to catch 1t every morning. The
secret of this was that the handsome,
athletic figure, the merry face of Moore
had made an impression on the pretty
young girl almost as deep as that which
her pretty blue eyes had made upon the
handsome young conductor. And. by
and by, in due course of events, Moore
began to say Good morning, Miss,
when she boarded the car, and to be
careful in helping her on
and off the car. He was so polite and
that after another week or
two she began to smile and say Good
to him, and still in due and
natural course of events and entirely
intention of flirting it came to
pass that they talked together and told
each other their names. 1t was about
that stage of the proceedings that Miss
Teener began to catch Moore's car
every morning, and Moore always was
for her to help her on the car.
And after perhaps two months of this
good, friendly relationship Moore asked
permission to call, and after a. few days
of hesitation, because they hadn't
been regularly introduced" she grant
ed the permission, and Moore called
and was introduced to her family.
Moore made big hit with Old Man
Teener, Cora's father, who had been a
man when he was young, be-
cause he was so jolly and goodnatured
and brought such good cigars out to
the house, explaining that he didn't
smoke, but that lot of his passengers
handed him cigars when he held the car
moment for them in the rush hours.
All the girls in the store and lot of
ner friends i'm the neghborhood envied
ner, because Moore was handsome and
Jolly: and when he began to call twice
a week everybody expected her to an
nounce her engagement.
So, until a few weeks ago, every
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