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Show By DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. by the Whtrlrr Syndicate. Inc.) CAN YOU GUESS IT? A woman asks: "Why does a man enjoy trifling with a woman'a heart? "Why doea a man uae every effort to win a woman'a love, and then Caat It aside aa careleaalv aa he would a tov of which he had tired? "Why doea a man spend month, and sometimes years, In persuading; a woman to marry htm, and aa toon aa he Is married apparently lose aJl Interest in herT ''Why does a man break Ma neck to ret a home of his own, and when he has got It break a lev in getting away from it?" MERELY ARK. I am sure I don't know. Thee things merely are. They are idoeyncrasies of the masculine psychology that the fem-Inlne fem-Inlne mind cannot fnthem. They are the riddle over which the Shlnx hroods In her desert solitude. They ara the great phenomena of the aires that uncounted generations of women have tried to guess and failed. Perhaps as rood an answer as any la to he found In the fact that men are aporiimaiu by nature, and gamblers by instinct, and that women are chiefly Interest In-terest In if to them while they are part of the area test Kami in the world, which la the love game. Aa lona; aa a woman la out of a man's reach, she Intrigues his fancy. Her Indifference In-difference to him piques his vanity, and makes him put forth every effort to charm her. Her coldness stimulates his Imagination. It Is ice that he must melt with the warmth of his own devotion. Her Inaccesiblllty lures him on, and the harder sh is to capture, the more determined he is to have her. , SPIRIT OF CHASE. It Is the spirit o the bis game hunter.,. TT Is the spirit that makes men risk their lives In Jungles, or climbing- the precipi-tuous precipi-tuous faces of mountains to shoot some animal that la not even worth taking back to camp. It Is the spirit that makes men risk their Uvea in fever-infested swamps to find a single Insignificant plant, or endure the Incredible hardships, of frosen wastes to seek the north pole. ' It is this Inherent spirit of adventure, of curiosity about the unknown, a passionate passion-ate desire for the unattained, that makes a man's attitude towards a woman entirely en-tirely different before he wins her and afterwards. And this hunter spirit Is something that women never understand, j because women are not born sportsmen. Therefore. It Is almost axiomatic that th less a woman wanta a man. the more he wanta her, and that the more a man wants a woman, the mors sure he is to get her. Men like the coy, the Illusive, the uncertain un-certain In woman, but woman likes the substantial, the downright, the tangible in man. A man's Ideal woman Is always airy, fairy Lillian, Just fluttering beyond! the reach of hts fingertips and leading him a dance through life, but woman's Ideal man Is Johnny-on-the-spot, to whom she can tie, and who la Just as much a part of the domestic establishment as the hearthstone. PERSISTENCE WINS. There Is fid surer way fowtir a woman's heart than by patient siege. A girl may flout a suitor at first, but nine times out of ten she will end by marrying him j If he Justs sits fast on her doorstep, but nothing so effectively queers a woman's I chance of getting the man she wants, as for him to know that he acn have her any time he nays the word. It's the peach that hangs highest on the tree that whets a man's appetite. Not the one that is ready to fall Into his mouth. It la a pity that women have not Intelligence In-telligence enough to understand that the passion for the chase Is the ruling passion pas-sion for men, and t ha t the harder a woman runs after a man, the more speed he makes id getting away from her. If women realised this, we should hav fewer girls calling men up on the telephone tele-phone and demanding to know why thy I don't come to see them, and trying to make dates with unwilling swains, and we should have many, many more weddings. wed-dings. (iirls don't marry because they are too gnuoua t marry. Thera la JIO excitement in court I tig them because they meet a man more than half way. Winning them la like knocking over chickens that eat out of your hand In a barnyard. Instead of shooting wild ducks on the wing. There Is no pep nor thrill to it. Nothing to rouse a man's Interest, and he doesn't get roused. And their stupid parents hinder, Instead In-stead of help, when they bribe young men to come to the house by means of feeds, and auto rides, and theatre tickets, and so on. There were few old maids in the days when foxy fathers and mothers moth-ers made their daughters so Inaccessible that young men had to plot and plan to acta surd with them, and bribe servants to slip them billet doux that were acl-tlonatiie acl-tlonatiie In a breach of promise suit. When Marianne was locked up In her room, Kd-win Kd-win stole her out through a window, but when the front door Is thrown wide open snd the whole family ts trying to drflg Kdwln In, he beats It away from the premises. HONEYMOON FADES. One of the reasons that business girls marry oftener than society girls Is because be-cause they are harder to win. A girl with a good Job la loath to give It up for a mere husband, and It's because she Isn't after them that the men are so keen about her. Perhaps there ts no bitterer moment In a woman's life than that one which marks the end of t he honeymoon, when her husband ceases to make love to her, ami to flatter her, and drops her down from the pinnacle of romance to the dull, cold I realities of life, with a thud that loosens I her back teeth and brings her castle of dreams down about her ears. Hhe la mis-l mis-l erable, because she thinks he has ceased 'to care for her, but thin is a mistake. It I merely means that for him the love chase is over. He has got his bag and there I Is no use in pursuing the quest further. It's up to her then, whether he sinks j Into the Indifferent husband, secure of his wife's devotion, no matter how he neglects her or If she keeps him still ln-t ln-t er ested. and a lovor, by keaplng him guessing. It's the too certain wives who make the uncertain husbands. of course. It's a cruel thing for ft man to win a woman'a heart for fun, but the hunter and the hunted always look at sport from a different angle. |