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Show MAN, MAID AND MARRIAGE. It remains for a man to explain why some girls never receive 'proposals of marriage. This particular man is a. bachelor, eligible, and a student of womankind. He Is positive that it is not due to the scarcity of men that so many loving good-looking girls remain single. In- stead, it is because they do not live up to the ideal in the mind of the modern mod-ern young man. "Mannishness, a characteristic which many girls like to exhibit nowadays," he declares, "is without doubt a great drawback to a girl's chances of getting married. ' ( Then, there is the careless, indolent girl who takes an interest in nothing beyond her own pleasurable pursuits. Pretty and accomplished, she never lacks a partner for a dance, but men recognize the fact that she lacks education edu-cation in the duties which would be hers as a wife. She thinks only of herself, while the man wants her to consider his comfort and happiness. "Then there are the cold girls. They may be clever and agreeable, but they receive the advance of a man in a haughtily, thrilling manner, leading him to believe they are not worth winning. win-ning. He prefers the girl who is more amiable. Neither does man like girls who are too shy. They are usually awkward as a consequence, and uninteresting. "Probably the girl a man least likes is an idealist. She believes a perfect man is waiting . for her somewhere down life's highway, and makes a practice of snubbing a fellow as soon as she decides he is not that paragon. Instead of trying to see him at his beRt, she tries to make him feel that In her eyes he Is only the common or garden variety of man." |