San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
SUIT ORS WOO
HER IN SIX
TONGUES
Novelist Reveals ''Way Of
a Man With a
Maid" Z
wOoed through an interpreter.

Wooed through m interpreter.
That was my first experience in
European love-making.
Hardly had stepped on board the
ship which was to carry me on a
twenty-month trip through Euro
pean countries, during which / was
courted in six tongues and ten times
as many ways, when romance began
with one of the great European finan-
cierS-a Viennese. @
Those Viennese men charming.
worldly, past masters of the hundred
and one little courtesies which win a
woman's heart-I never had met Qpe
before, and, frankly, was piqued and
curious. L..
This financial magnate fortunately.
was accompanied by two secretariesal
say fortunately, since he seemed 70
know every language except the two
most essential, English and FRENCH.
As l could spak no other, his court
ship. was conducted on a more or less
MILES Standish" basis. -
HE SAID 1T WITH FLOWERS,
Never was a wooing more pictur-
esque, never was it handled with great
er difficulty.
Though our conversation was lip-
tied, at first. to words of one syllable,
my fascinating Austrian certainly said
it with flowers.
Every morning awoke to find my
stateroOm and that of my sister, Rita,
filled with masses of rare blooms. IN
deed, long after l reached Paris, and
even on the Riviera for some months,
he continued to make passionate dec
larations of love through deep, rcd
roses.
had one man, who sent me moth
ing but out of season orchids-but III
tell about him later. Curiously enough,
he was an Englishman.
My Austrian started with lavish en-
tertainments in honor Of myself ana
my sister. We always were attended
by the two fidus Achates. Otherwise
there would have been no courtship.
The more elderly of the two see
retaries did not take to his new job
with much grace. Once / overheard
him remark in a confidential whisper
to his fellow scribe:
Never did l imagine / would be
the junction for a Cupid's express"
~ wv VI a udlug TINS stCI0Aoi9' AAO
had been in the diplomatic corps be-
fore the war. guess he knew as
much about women as his employer.
The financier at the beginning, via
his secretary, said to me:
Il have never loved. feel moth
ing"
He wanted me to believe that he
was one of the Continental sophisti-
Gates. He soon forgot the past and
his lack of feeling.
His constant lament was:
QUOTES FAIRY TALE.
"She is a beauty and 1 cannot tell .
her So"
Again:
ave are like the two children OF
kings, who loved but couldn't speak"
He referred to the old German fairy
tale.
Despite these handicaps, as we sat
in the moonlight one evening, l sud
denly found him on his knees, smother
ing my hand in kisses. He had dis
covered the language of all ages
The climax came at dinner party
the night before we locked. Throwing
discretion to the winds and forgetting
to communicate his thoughts through
one of his secretaries, he leaned across
the table, and said fortissimo some
thing which sounded like:
Edna, kuesses, kuesses, kuesses."
So this was romance in Europe.
l understood later his remark had
something to do with kissing. didn't
quite like il, and l got up and walked
away.
never dreamed when 1 sailed away
on my first trip to Europe, since l
myself was a debutante, that should
be pursued all over Europe by an Ital-
ian prince, Hungarian baron, Span
ish marquis and endless Others, and
that had my sister, Rita, accepted the
offer of marriage of a certain arch
duke / should have become related to
half Of Europe's crowned heads.
The impetuous Austrian? What
happened to him? He proposed. l
refused. VOLTA That's all
Next shall tell how the English
man makes love.