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Show Dorothy Dix Talks i THE ETHICS OF COURTSHIP By DOROTHY DIX. the World's Highest Paid Woman Writer A young boy, suffering from a vlo- ' lent attack of first love, asks me if V ''Hi tell him ho.v to conduct a courtship. court-ship. Why. son, there Isn't any cut and tried re.-lpe for wonlng a maiden like, 'here is for making a sponge cake. iTou eannr.t say, follow this rule and you cannot fall. Nor can any stranger hart out the road to a woman's . and say: step on the gas and get into high speed here; slow down: and be careful not to skid there. Turn to the ririt at this spot, and avoid pitfall on io left, ami eventually.1 you Will nrr!" afey at your land jf heart's de.xlre. von sco it all depends on th gin, I nd the time, ami the place, and th.ve; D Ul uncertain quantities, which is, porhaps, the reason that love making! la the greatest pamc In the world. and a sport of which men r.evor lire. I'm the grea' lov-rs, unlike the great! g lifers antl th- prnat Whlsl play-ery, SV never told the world how they! : irned the trick, nor diagrammed ' their tUir plays. The way of courtship ls, therefore. 8 primrose path that every youth must explore f.r himself, but there' ire r'.iin h;nro)trds that one may! creel albng the road that may servo to guide the pilgrim of love on his quest. On the flr;t of the?e signboards I vi ould write Come Not Too Often ami Tarry Not Too Eong. If a woman is wildly and madrj In-' I fatuatod with a man she may want, tn see him every day, and enjoy lip-: tenlng to him talk hours upon end, but this calls for a deathless devotion. ' and If you hae the slightest doubt of the lady's affection, administer your society to her In small and broken doso5. No man so queers himself as he who i; always underfoot, and who comes to be as familiar, und as little considered as faithful Pido w ho dogs her steps. Make your visit;, therefore,; often enough 16 keep the girl inter- sled in you. and looking forward 'o your coming. AIfo keep per vanity piqued by making bet Wonder If you aro coming, and if rhi hes charms j enough to keep you fascinated, but don't become one of the steady workers work-ers who can be counted upon to punch the time clock every evening that rolls around. Any girl on earth gets tired of a man who camps on her door step. And when you call on a girl, don't stay too Ion:. Xo human being on earth has -sot a line of conversation that Will hold h listener f"r more llttlo piece, and call It a day and quit, if you want to mak'- a good Impression. Im-pression. The Mri- Christian martyrs have nothing in tuf: rln' on the agonies of boredom that girls go through in li.?toni-5r to the drlvle of men who stay on and on until th-very th-very clock yawns In their fa.ces. Be-not Be-not one of th?se, , nd win n a glri suggests sug-gests turning on the phonograph, let I hat be nil r k "' v. iy 5i.?n- 1 U : ieatlS she would rathr llcten to a Jazz record than you. . And when you start to leavo, ge as If you were shol out of a gun. Ite- j fleet that most rlrls have on shoe! threo slcei too tight for them, and they want no lingering adieus that i keep them on their feet. ' n the second slfrnboard I would writ.-: J'.e Bold. But Not Too Bold Never a-k a girl for a kiss. Take. 4t I She Is bound to refuse to savo hi fade. But be sure first thnt sh doen't object to being kissed. Women tyk.e mon who have courage and assurance, as-surance, but they hate freshness. I Cuve-rasn stuff goes big with women, j but they loath familiarity. The third thing that J would write J on the signboard would be. Bo Gon-"roiu, Gon-"roiu, But DO Not Let A Woman Work You Women hste a tightwad, but they llkexrlso hno a contempt for an easy mark. The woman who "makes ft rnin spend more on her than I he run afford has nr. Intention ot II marrying him. Otherwise, she would be easy on his pneketbnok. Indeed, the firft sign a womitn gives of really having serious intentions ls when She begins to suggest the movlei instead of the theatre, and soda water Instead of supper after the play. Bu on the other hand, a girl con- Aiders it an Insult for a man to be- grudg the price of what he spends on hr, and when he takes her to the poorest places, and buy the sixteenth H row t-at in the theatre, she rejjorils h'ri n s a leapskSte. Therefore, when you take a glH out. give her the best that you;- rurse allows, and don't ha'-ple over penn When von make her gift.i put some-Lhing some-Lhing Into your pre :it besides money. Consult h r taste Bemcmber the desires de-sires rhe has repressed. Never forgt that a woman would ra:her have a fifteen cent bunch of field flowers H that has some real personal slgnifi-canee, slgnifi-canee, tlian a fifty dollar bunch of ra"es bodght hit or mi;s The fourth thing I should write on th" signboard Is: Don't Be Jealous. H No man looks so much a figure of fun as he does srhen be sits around grouching, pea green with Jealousy, every time any other mar comes about th girl wjth whom ho is in love. Nor ! does anything "lit" so disillusion ' H I woman, or cause her to think- sonn H wrong thoughts about what sort of life she would have with a man who ! v-o-ii.l -r,-, ino the sulks every time she was decent to another man. j Btoredver, tht jealous man confesses his Inferiority to his rlvatS, and no i Woman wants u man wb.o puts hln.-self hln.-self down .au a second rater. t.Mn, i v. . . .. k i i IBB would writs: Go To It. if you want a girl ask her. Make her believe that vou are going to drag her to the altar 'i.c hair of her head if you csn't get her "ny other way. But pep into your lovn mnlt'ng, and don't make th" gl do hal' of th" courting. pupjd always snilles on the bold Dorothy Dix's articles appear ia this newspaper evirv ?.(onday, Wed- . , . nd Prlda |