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Show J& J& J& TUe Complete Angler; or, How to Catch a HmsMnd By Nlxola Greeley. Smith1 HHUS use your frog: Put your hook I mean tho nrmlng wire-through wire-through his mouth and out of his gills, and In so doing use him as though you loved him." So izank Walton dear old bachelor lover of tho angler's art describes his manner of baiting fish. And thus the modern husband-hunter, if she wcro so inclined, in-clined, might with equal aptness render an account of her methods of capture. 0f course, the application is not to the particular fish she wishes to make her own. Neither sho nor Walton could put the hook, tho arm-ing arm-ing wire, through the llsh's mouth and out his gills for tho very good reason that tho fish, being a lively-nnd elusive creature, will not stand for It Only a Blow-going, helpless frog can bo thus maltreated. But once the frog is on tho wire tho llsh bites. Now, the complete angler of old times angled with plain, ordinary, four-legged four-legged garden 'frogs. But his modem nnd feminine prototype baits her hook and often catches her llsh with a two-legged variety with "tho frog that would a-woolng go" In other words, the man who wants to marry her. ns distinguished from tho man sho wants to marry. Every woman, no innttcr how lino her nbstrnct sense of Justico may be, knows that when n man actually wants to marry her which does not mean the one that her line art and delicate cajolery have sandbagged Into tbo passive willingness that leads many estimable citizens to tho altar sho cuu treat him practically as she pleases. And, furthermore, she does It. As a result, when, following Mr. Walton's recipe for halting, she puts her hook through his mouth nnd out nt his gills, etc., ho regards tho rather painful proceeding ns, on the whole, u pleasing attention. For does sho not, nccordlng to the very letter of tbo complete angler's advice, ad-vice, "In so doing uso him ns through she loved him?" To be sure, her gcntleuess and consideration nro due to the effect she knows they will have on the other rann. But, thcii, how docs tho poor frog know that until, having served his purpose pur-pose f baiting, be Is cast asido and It is too late? New York World. |