El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-18
A School Of Courtship
By WINIFRED BLACK.

49," HE art of courtship should be
taken up as one Of the regular
branches Of study in our pub
lie schools" says the Rev. DR.. Drummer
Of Chicago. The time has now arrived
when there viii be a department OF
this kind in our educational systems
You don't say so. dear doctor; you
don't say so in serious earnest and eX-
pect US TO agree with you. honestly and
truly now. doctor? Since when. pray
tell US. pretty teacher-are there any
more at home LIKE mean since when
has courtship become an art and how
long is it since an American boy has
had TO go to school to learn how 10
tell the girl he loves that he loves her.
and that he'll die in his tracks If she
doesn't tell him that minute she loves
him. too?
What kind Of girls do you know.
doctor? Do tell Us Where do they
come from, what do they look like,
what is their manner and mode of life?
never saw a girl in my life who had
to be taught wnaJ to do when the man
she loves tells her she's the sweetest
thing on earth Did you, honestly now,
professor, DID YOU
art Of breathing, the art OF sleeping,
the art of being alive. Why, its as
natural to love ana be loved as il is
10 laugh when you see anything funny
And who would you get to give those
precious lessons. dear Sir2 Some dry
as-dust professor who has forgotten
everything ne can't learn in a book, or
some forlorn old woman who never had
a sweetheart in her life2
I knew a man once who knew the art
Ia - Loo -aa q HHH H.rr.N l.
He practiced that art OF every girl he
met. The third or fourth time he saw
the girl he took her into some dark
corner alone and said in the ardent
manner of a book agent selling Use
1ul COMPENDIUM OF Modern knOWl-
edge" Miss Blank, you must have OBJ
served that I seek you out and i feel
that the time has come for me TO de-
clare to you that / have great admi-
ration and respect for yOu-a respect
thai [ think will some day ripen into
love May dare hope that YOU
Will encourage my suit!
Yes. he did say those very words,
syllable for syllable We all knew
and used TO say them over to each
other whenever we saw the Educated
SuitOr Turing a girl to sit out ths
dances with him someW here where
there were flowers or moon or some
thing Oh. he'd learned about all those
things in his book. too.
Married? He Why, there wasn't a
girl in the state who would look at him
and he was good to look at, too, I'm
a ponderous kind of way-fairly intel
ligent and more than fairly well to 90.
Married. A man who had TO learn
the art of cOurtship before he knew
what to say when he wanted TO tell a
girl that he thought she was pretty7
No, no. Nature knows thing or two.
and nature intends that all such freaks
as that shall stay freaks, alone. and
she arranges t so they won't have
much trouble doing it either.
The art Of cOurtship-ln a classi I
shouldn't be surprised if some absurd
board of education somewhere would
start some such thing They are get
ting US into classes and telling US how
10 be mothers and what 10 do when liz
tie Mary says she won't and little Tom
ME says he shan't and what TO do
when baby is lonesome and wants to be
cuddled. taught instructed, educated,
enlightened. Isn't there a single nat
uraI human being left in this over in
telligent wOrld2
In the name Of all that's every day
and comfy and common sense. are we
all perfect idiots nowadays? can't we
play ring around rosy or drop the