The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-08
Cites Instance Of The Con- genial Wife

A young man asks me if I will give him some hints on how to woo a quiet, unemotional girl to whom cave-man stuff does not appeal.
 Well, son, I am not denying that when a maiden is several thousand years beyond secretly craving to be courted with club, and to have a man drag her off to his two-by -four flat by her lovely red hair, winning her presents a good many more dif- ficulties than 1t does with the more primitive of her species.
 Still, 1t can be done, for every girls heart is & citadel with a door that she leaves unguarded in the hopes that the right man will have the gumption to guess the combination of it's lock one day, and walk in ana take possession of the premieses.
 So it is up to you to find the key, and do little porch climbing, and to do the trick:
 First, get her really interested in you. Spend less time in making love to her than you do in talking to her about world affairs, and books, and the philosophies of life. Unemotional girls generally have as much head as heart, and they are more apt to ask themselves, Will this man bore the to death if I marry him?" than they are to inquire of their souls whether he will always thrill them or not.
 The girl who is just bunch of thro bbing nerves and senses never looks beyond the moment. It is enough for her that she palpitates at the touch of a hand, or the sound of a footstep, or that some mans kisses fill her with ecstasy. The girl of colder temperament looks beyond the chills and ague state of courtship to the placid days of matrimony where her happiness is going to depend on how entertaining as daily com panion her husband Is. a1 If you can get a girl so interested in what you think that she saves up Subjects to discuss with you, you have got her going. You're as fasci- hating as to-be e-continued- incur ext serial, and she will marry you to get some intelligent person with whom to talk, and to whom to listen.
 If the quiet girls eyes brighten when you come, press your suit with vigor. But if she yawns, and says that mother. does not. approve of callers after 10:30, waste no more time upon her. She has found you tedious, and you haven't touched either her heart or her brain cells.
 -Four second play Is to convince your quiet, unconditional girl that you need her. Ordinarily, a man who Is counting a girl piques her interest by keeping her guessing, and the more uncertain she Is that he wants her, the more she wants him. But with tho cold type of girl these tactics must be reversed. She never falls in love with a man until he is abject before her. He has to stir her pity before he does her heart.
 Therefore. make yourself pictur- sequely wretched before your quiet girl.
 Threaten to commit suicide if she says mo-" or convince her that you
 will pine away and die of broken
 heart. Tell her all the hard-luck stories you can conjure up, and
 make her realize that all the com fort you have in this sad and sordid
 vale of tears is her understanding
 and sympathy.
 The poet who said that pity is
 akin to love" said 1t all in regard to the quiet. unemotional woman.
 Her real passion is the maternal
 and she loves only the man who will
 let her mother him, and treat him as if he were a bad little boy that