The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-02-20
THE ART
OF LOVE
A Lecture on How to Secure
q Husband
By r. A. Mitchell


fifty. who had buried four husbands,
announced that she would give private
lectures In the parlor Of her home to
young ladies on how to get husbands.
A lecture would be given every Friday
afternoon at 3 o'clock.
On the first afternoon a numerous
audience were gathered In the lectur
er's parlor.
Mrs. Robbins spoke as follows:
Young ladies, you have doubliess de-
rived your ideas as to woman's part
in a courtship from novels. and that is
the reason why you are not married.
The heroine of a novel is usually so
modest that she doesn't dare say her
souls her own. There's more accom-
plished in this world in other fields be-
sides matrimOny by assurance than
modesty and more accomplished by
management than by assurance.
The best way TO teach is by example.
Therefore | shall put this lecture III
the form of story. But it's a real
story. not an invention The heroine
didn't sit round and look pretty. She
was up and doing. That's what We
must all be in this world if we want 10
get on. Do you suppose a young fel
low who wants a position whereby To
start Il fortune sits round and waits
for it? No; he goes out and hunts foT
it. And when he gets it does he mod
estly wait for somebody to tell him
to do things? Not if he wants 10 sue
ceed. He does everything without Ge
ing told and before it's wanted. That'S
the part of IL young fellow starting on
to fix himself i'll the world. and you
young ladies should act on the Same
principle.
Now for my story of the way OIL
young lady secured a husband.
Her name was Jones. Sarah Jones
just plain Sarah Jones, not Maltravel
or Montmorency. like the heroineS
novels. or Gwendolin or .Taquelin for
first name. A girl doesn't need hi@
sounding name to get husband; Sh
needs something that I'm going to te
you about. Sarah Jones the day SD
was eighteen sat down and did Il jO
of thinking. She wasn't long about il
for she was an acting girl. and whei
she had got her thinking done she act
ed at once ON her decision. That de
cision was that her place was in i;
home as wife and the mother o,
children.
Sallie Jones didn't so at things blind
ly; she thought them out beforehand
She knew that she couldn't get MAJ
ried if restricted to the society of girls
So she joined a dancing class. Sh'
couldn't afford it. but she had to af
ford it. and whatever has to be dont
is done if the party to do it is of the
right stuff. She had her eye fixed O!
that dancing class, and she joinel
without knowing where the money t,
pay her way was to come from. Their
were twenty young men members anC
twenty-five girls.
Miss Jones realized that there l.
safety In numbers but for the man sh'
was after. not for her. She didn't e.
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 excep'
what he was getting together himself
but he was frugal and 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 hin.
when he came back after a lack OF
attention just as pleasantly as if be
hadn't neglected her.
This sort of work has been called
angling. and so it is. A skillful fisher
man If q fish doesn't bite right of
wouldn't think Of trying to jerk the
hook into its gills, and when it does
bite he doesn't try to haul it out of the
water all at once. Some fish can be
caught that way. but gamy fish needs
to be allowed to play itself out. So it
is with man. First get him on the
hook. then play him.
We like those who like us. and Abel
Rogers. being aware that Sallie liked
him, was disposed to like her. There
was nothing deceitful about this in
Sallie. She really liked him or she
wouldn't have tried to catch him
There is a difference in a girl showing
q man that she likes him and showing
him she wants him. Showing it would
end uncertainty, and uncertainty is thu
line by which she must pull him in
after getting the hook in his gillS
Abel knew nothing about Sallie'S feel
lngs for him except that she liked him.
She might have liked several other
men and loved one other.
1t wasn't long before Sallie 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
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