The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-03-04
THE ART
OF LOVE
A Lecture on How to Secure
a Husband
By r. A. Mitchell

nfty. who had buried four husbands.
announced that She would give private
! lectures in the parior of her home to
young ladies' on how to get husbands.
\ lecture would be- given every Friday
afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
7 On the first afternoon numerous
audience We're sathered in the lectur
+ er IS parlor
Mrs, Robbins spoke as follows:
7 Young Iadies, YOU have doubtless de.
rived your ideas AZ to womau's part
/ III ,ourtship from novels. aud that is
the reason why you are not married.
The heroine of novel Is usually SO
modest that She doesn't dare say her
souls her own There's more accom-
plished IN this word ia other fields he.
sides matrimony hy assurance than
modesty and more accomplished hy
management than by assurance.
The best way to teach is by example
Therefore | shall put this lecture in
the form of IL STORY Hut it's n real
story, not an invention The heroine
didn't sit round ana look pretty. She
was up aud doing That's what we
must all he in this word il we want 10
get ON, Do YOU suppose young tel
low who wants a position whereby to
start a fortune sits round aud waits
for NJ No; he goes ont aud hunts for
1t. Aud when he ,eiS Il does he mod
estly wait Tor somebody to tel him
TO do things: Not if he wants TO sue.
coed. lie does everything without he
ing told aud before It's wanted. That 5
The part Of young fellow starting out
TO fix himself In he world, and YOU
young ladies Should act on the same
principle
Now for nay story of The way one
young lady secured husband
Her name was .loues Sarah Jones.
Just plain Sarah Jones, not Matravers
or Montm0rency. like tile heroincs of
novels. or Gwendolin or Janelin for
first name. A girl doesn't need high
sounding name tV get Il husband. she
needs something that l'm going to tell
you about Sarah Jones tho day she
was eighteen sat down aud did Job
of thinking She wasn't long about it.
for she was IN acting girl. aud when
she had got her thinking done she act
ed at once on hes decision That de
cision was that her place was in "A
home as wife and the mother of
children
Sallie Jones didn't 20 ~ things blind.
ly: she thought them ont beforehand.
She knew that she couldn't get mar
ried IL restricted TO the society OF girls
So she joined n dancing class. She
couldn't afford H. but she had to ar
ford II. and Whatever has 10 be done
is done If the parry 10 do it is of tue,
right stuff She had her eye fixed on
that dancing class. and She joined
without knowing where the money to
pay her way was 10 come from. There
were twenty Young inen members and
twenty-five girls.
Miss .lone\ realized that there Is
safety in numbers but for the man she
was after, not for her she didn't go
fooling about among the twenty men
She picked out steady young fellow
and made up her mind TO land him
His name was Abel Rogers. Nothing
romantic about his name either
Rogers didn't have anything except
what he was getting together himself.
but he was frugal and a hard worker.
The first thing Sallie did was TO let
Abel Rogers understand that she liked
him. She didn't pout when he danced
with some other girl more than with
her or look troubled If he didn't dance
with her at all She smiled on him
when he came back after lack of
attention just as pleasantly as il he
hadn't neglected her
This sort Of work has been called
angling. aud 50 il is. \ skillful fisher
man if a fish doesn't bite right off
wouldn't think OF trying TO jerk the
hook into its gills and when il does
bite he doesn't try to haul II out of the
water all al once. Some fish can be
caught that way but gamy Gsh needs
to be allowed TO play itself ont, SO it
is with man First get him on the
hook. then play him
We like those who like ms. and Abel
Rogers being aware that Sallie liked
him, was disposed 10 like her. There
was nothing deceitful about this in
sallie She really liked him or she
wouldn't have tried 10 catch him
There is u difference III u girl showing
a man that she likes him and showing
him she wants lin. Showing # woulI
end uncertainty. and uncertainty is the
line by which SHE must pull him in
after getting the hoak in his gills
Abel knew nothing about Sallle's feel
ings for him except thar she liked him.
She might have liked several other
men and loved one other
1t wasn't long before Salie found an
to favor Abel above other
men. He came one evening to the
dancing class after an absence. having
no partners engaged. Sallie turned
down several names ON her engage
nent card to give the dances 10 him.
This was an excellent way of showing
him her good win without indicating