New-York tribune., 1911-11-05
HE GOT HIS CUE.

ct thought YOU we're at the other emo oR
the world" he cried
The answer gave her start Nhat
curious coincidence, she thought But car
ried away by the spirit Of it. she gave tne
next sentence unvarled' =.
SO I was, but came back year ago.
etc.
Lets 20 over here 10 the conservatory'@
he suggested.
After an interval of quiet conversation
SIZE turned 10 him and said hurriediy' as
though she were afraid she might choke or
fart or lose her nerve before 1t all camo
out:
do you know what I've been trying to
do all afternoon
you bet T do" he responded heartily.
you want TO give me three kisses, YOU
bold. bad pirate; but l warn YOU that IL
YOU do I'll scream and scream
And then ne caught her In his arms and
all ended happily. It was certainly an un-
usual chance that he had not only read
the very book. but remembered the very
massage. Yet it IS not safe, after all, TO
assume thac other people have not read
and remembered the same things that you
have. And therein lies another deadly dam
ger in trying to duplicate in your own iifs
the imaginary scenes that exist In books.
MANY other girls have tried the fiction
method with, I'm many cases. such resulu
as would furnish almost enough distressing
material 10 build an up-todate proolenl
play from The danger does not lie III
them. but I'm the original girls, VINO 40
+ not have 10 copy situations or plan them'
but who act on impulse and trust TO their
wits.
| Another instance? Here is one maiden
! fair who took advantage of box party at
one of those Viennese waltz romances In a
Broadway theatre the other night Wheh
the curtain closed on the second act. an act
| Of sweet oldtime romance, the girl in the
box fell languidly back in her cushioned
| chair and said, sottO voce, TO the man VINO
twas beside her.
"Oh. Jack. l wish we were to be married.
! too, don't you?'
The next thing that could be heard was
the girls voice again. very softly murmur-
ing:
"Why didn't you say so long ago. instead
of making me propose TO you, you bad
boy?'
All of this adds ginger to ones daily ex-
perience but how to cope with II? Most
men have "A mysterious. perhaps century
long, horror of hearing the truth from a
woman That is one side of It. Another is,
Well. fancy the situation Fancy hearing
yourself coyly murmuring in your aston
ishmcrt: "Oh, really, this is so sudden.'
Somehow the sentiment and the way one
would have TO say It don't seem TO ft bass
voice.
, Then IL would seem so impossible 10 offer
iher merely friendship after her asking for
your income.
Many men would be not only frightened,
but hopeessly puzzled as to what to do
were the wrong girl to propose. or course,
if the right girl should propose-but then
enc need not go into that
one Of tho lions of the hour in order TO
protect his bachelorhood has decided, IL
this proposing tendency spreads, to take
a male chapcron aGout with him, especlal-
ilv when he goes calling or takes young
woman to the theatre. This encumbrsnce
will add TO the weekly expense bill fright
fully. and might I'm some cases prove as
useless as a burglar alarm, but the mere
presence Of Il male protector would give
the miserable lion partial sense OF se-
! curity.
Other young men are planning to protect
themselves by constant personally deliv-
cred bulletins as to the state Of their feel
irgs, affections, etc.
Il am never going TO marry, you know"
they may tell a girl soon after meeting
her. or, I'm not interested I'm love and
all that | passed out Of that long ago.
Now il borCs me"