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Show RULES 1-OR COURTSHIP-Agree COURTSHIP-Agree with the girl's father in politics and her mother in religion. If you have a rival, kt-ep on eye on him; if he is a widower, keep two eyes on him. Don't put too much sweet stuff on paper. If you do you will hear it read in after years, when your wife has some especial purpose in in dieting upon you the severest punishment known to a married m an. Go home at a reasonable hour in the evening. Don't wait until she has to throw her whole soul in a yawn 1 1 1 a t. s h e can't cover with both hands. A little thing like that may cause a coolness at the very beginning of the game. If on the occasion of your first c;ill, the girl upon whom you have placed your young affections looks like an iceberg and acts like a cold wave, take your leave early and stay away. Women in her hours of freeze is uncertain, coy and hard to please. In cold weather finish snying good night in the house. Don't stretch it all the way to the front gale, and thus lay the foundation for future asthma, bronchitis, neuralgia neu-ralgia and chronic catarrh to help you worry the girl to death" after she has married you. Don't lie about your financial condition. It is ery annoying to a bride who has pictured for herself a life of luxury in Iter ancestral halls, to learn too late that you expect ex-pect her to ask a buld-headed parent, par-ent, who has been uniformly kind to her, to take you in out of the cold. If you sit down on some molasses candy that little Willie lias left on the chair, while wearing your new summer trousers for the fust time, smile sweetly and remaik that you don't mind sitting on molasses candy at all, and that ''boys will be boys." Reserve your true feelings feel-ings for future reference. Don't be too soft. Don't say, "These little hands will never do a strokeof work when they arc mine," and "You have nothing to do in our home but to sit all day long and chirp to the canaries," as if any sensible woman could be happy fooling away time in that sort of style. A girl has a fine, retentive memory for the soft things and silly promises of courtship, and occasionally, in after yenrs, when she is washing the dinner dishes or patching the west end of your trousers, she will remind you of them in a cold, sarcastic sar-castic tone of voice, Ex. i |