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Show Women and Courtship Man views it as a great testimony to his prowess at amour to yield op his liberty, his property and his soul to the first woman who, In despair of finding better game, turns her appraising apprais-ing eye upon him. But If yoa want to hear a mirthless laugh. Just present this masculine theory to a bridesmaid at a wedding, particularly after alcohol alco-hol and crocodile tears have done their disarming work upon her. That Is to say. Just blut to ber that the bride harbored no notion of marriage until stormed , Into acquiescence , bj v the meonstruck and impetuous' bride-groom. bride-groom. H. U Mencken, in "la Defense De-fense of Women," , ;' 'I ' , -Y: :'y Y |