| Show 1 41 gp AI t. t ril 1 l l. l 1 U ti T d d if fit S Sp p a- a I I I by Her i I aye Recent Experiences as the 1 1 Heroine l e of 0 r c f Thirty Seven Seven i Romances r yr i n C t. t e 1114 Miss S r Malcos alcos ik j I key Describes the Perfect e Cleopatra and Mark Antony whose romance Miss pro pro- pronounces pounces an ideal one in spite of the shadow that was cast over it by the Egyptian Suitor Whom queens queen's 9 s previous P love affair with wit Caesar HEN Miss liss Edna two I Ul t years years ears ago burst hur t into fame with her first novel The Debu Debu- Debutante Debutante Debutante tante polite society in England France and the United States St Sl tes es raised a hand to toan toan toan an astounded he hc hei i admiring yet et per per- Curbed Miss Mis li polite pol society te knew was a rl Ie debutante herself nineteen years ear d ell 1 the granddaughter of a Con Con- Confederate Confederate Confederate federate general member of one of the first families of Virginia In the World War Miss ker had advanced her age and been accepted for war duty in In France Then when the war var was over o she Had written this astounding this amazing book b ok As many man people l easily recall a rev rev- reverend rev rev- Bread bishop a soldier and a Greenwich Green vich Village near literary man all figured in The Debutante With each of these gentlemen and gentlemen and some others the others the little heroine of the story was forced to todo todo todo do actual scratching battle in defense of her womanly rectitude Only by b a n mir mir- miracle miracle miracle acle and exceedingly able muscles did diel she come come through gh unscathed And her experiences with life and love were told with such frank vividness that society wondered how much basis they had in in reality reality- Were ere the experiences of the heroine In m the book those which its author had actually actually- had l had ad Miss would never tell She only smiled So that important point was never cleared up But interest lingered with the little lady lady- as she he danced madly madl through a recent eighteen months' months tour of Europe Cables C bles came telling of how she had hail refused ref sed to dine with two t royalties the royalties the King of Sweden an and the King of o Portugal gal g In In France and Italy at Biarritz and Cannes and Naples romantic tales of at least seven se proposals als received by L her were flashed fla hed through the news news- papers Miss received for or a grand total thirty seven proposals from noble noble- noblemen noblemen noblemen men millionaires and other distin distin- distinguished distinguished distinguished suitors during the past year And so this still st unmarried novelist who has seen so Sl much of love making and has kept her head so cool has become an authority on all matters concerned with love love especially especially courtship Of all the various phases pha es of love Miss considers courtship the most important of all She is the first student of love Jove making to define the ideal court court- courtship courtship courtship ship and enumerate the elements which should enter into i to it Courtship Cour hip she explains is like paint paint- painting painting ing a fine art The earnest student may never ne attain his goal but if he pursues it with ardor his soul will viii be gladdened gla Sy ty y visions of his ideal Patient study of famous courtships 1 helps the earnest student to decide how the perfect lover will woo what he lac himself will be like and under what hat con con- conditions conditions and in just what ways he will press his suit This is a matter m-atter m that deserves the grave gra consideration of every ev ry woman Miss lir l s thinks in order that when love comes tapping t at her heart she may ma be Ile eble to distin distin- distinguish 1 wish the beautiful ul and unusual in courtship court court- courtship A ship from the ugly and commonplace In all matters of the heart sa j I kl of course cour c. c we must allow for individual tastes Many Inn l girls prefer a I. I very young oung man nina as a lover many pre pre- prefer re- re refer fer lr a handsome man most prefer prefer-a prefer a dancing man My own experience with I i i proposals here and abroad has taught taught- tau ht t Li me mo man of thirty five to forty forty- fort t liva is is really the ideal lover I vc forth forthe f r t e c ide l 1 r l i The rhe reason isn't for far to seek The fh man ma around forty has has' either achieved d v success success- already lI or 01 he lie has so 1 advance ad 1 i on oo the MUM rood to tu success the i bm j consid on r him will hardly iy gum ho-gum- b be tam tam- m yg N wo w Y Yr rt r t o e r- r r r I 1 I t J I I- I IM M a fl f. f Y f Dream of ofiS I. I f. f k ft t 4 ti i t Pf rIP t 1 but Seldom J Jr s k Find in Reality i r her a great compliment c m She is sure at Y c t any rate he is IS in earnest Ii i x j When the nationality of the lover lo is is a t r settled of course the next point for fort f a t t w consideration is i his occupation The The woman woma who is IS haphazard hap azard about this i 0 1 v most important subject probably has I F never imagined that a mans man's occupation l has the least east bearing upon his ability S in love lo making But it is of the thc utmost f V importance nce that that the ideal deal ideal lover in m the theBO lf Y ideal courtship do the right sort of work Blissful BO lIS fir u climax C Imax of 0 f in the world an ideal stage ro ro- romance r Its a general axiom I have already it t Q mance as I was in the laboratory of life that r proved portrayed by Miss Jeanne Eagels Engels E age I s and an d Gordon G 01 d on Ash A s h y men of sedentary occupations make e the least least Ica effective lovers They think too much They The arc are too small bling in futures Love Low marriage penny pinching and thought romance need the thc element clement of splitting or else too intro intro- introspective certainty and security to make or absent absentminded them ideal ideal- This is possessed by bythe t r. r Take Taker for instance the man of forty fort and endows him 1 an author I would say sa with added interest I that a literary man There is another claim which s f would by b no means the man of forty has to consid consid- I 1 compare with a chauffeur Just look about and try 1 four for attraction or orto orto to count up the men you rou know charm as a lover Cr An Anho who ho are arc re bachelors at forty fort You A. A a I author needs for his wont won't count so 0 many man is wife a fine cherishing Now ow the successful bachelor woman to be bc his pa pa- patient of forty fort has often had his own tient echo and his way to make and has generally d a ready footstool The been so busy making it that he successful wives of suc sue successful has little tittle time for romance literary men are Therefore he is a apt pt to to be very generally g patient and much of an amateur at every every- everything f self-sacrificing self e ething c r rea c e a thing connected with lose lo 10 e and b d ch tures who obliterate courtship Accordingly he brings themselves of the sake sakeY to the woman he seeks to win a Y v n of their husbands' husbands ca ca- ca- ca certain romantic wistfulness a r r sort of o courting humility which t Many headed empty the er cleser cle modern young oung woman girls feel that the actor actoris knows so well how how- to turn tum to her is most likely to have ha advantage i all nil the thc qualifications The year old suitor will do domany 0 l necessary to the thc per per- perfect perman many man more m e pretty pretty- things for the woman t 1 feet leet courtship but I he wants ants w will sacrifice more listen to r. r Fe would put him at the her further give gc g c more than a younger youn er f bottom of or the list even man He lie will love lo with a tenderness below the author The Theand Theand Y and an exquisiteness s of o which the man manof t actor is a mirror gazing of o twenty tent r is absolutely incapable i There There- Therefore man he wants admira admira- fore I should say ga the theman the man of forty is y i f tion lion Valentino is a athe athe the first requisite to the ideal courtship sheik heik on the screen but as lover loverin But any any woman woman w man who has had inter inter- international 4 in n real life he would prove pro rove far farless national experience exp in these important less irresistible lihle matters very well knows that the ques ques- question question question tion of or what constitutes the ideal lover cannot be settled seWed at all a until his na nn- nationality na- na nationality as well as his age ug-e is is- is deter deter- d ter- ter mined ruined Of course c course r e as as ad an American Americ n I am patriotic and ami an so eo I must explain that I Iam Iam Iam am am convinced con that Americans make the best Lest husbands in the world As lovers however ho ever men of other nations often ex ex- excel cel eel When I was abroad I received sev several sev- sev several eral proposals from Italian noblemen and several titled till d Spaniards Of course course I dd not wish wi h to marry any of the old darlings darlin although I 1 need need hardly explain c rai I was was- very ver glad Iad to observe o observe erve them in inaction action in action in romantic action aStiOn n. n After several months of comparison I decided deci ed that the 1 and the tile Spaniard mere ere nearly nea-Iy tied the latter really was wa il a dash dosh more effective be as 13 a alove love rO The Th reason reason I think is tIu the Spaniard possesses a 1 I bi hit bit more marL li- li liis' liis fi h h. h his his' is' is ismore more li io I. ant and OI jealous Ilc it is si c bc ct of oi Uc tb cc s o. t Rudolph Rudol h Valentino whose love mak mak- making making making ing ing in the filmy films has endeared him to millions of theatergoers and his his wife V Winifred Hudnut who until lately found it quite satisfying satis satis- satisfying in real life r of jealousy jealousy- more marc amazing About a Spanish lover always hovers the aroma of death and danger dl lr One Spanish sp ni h marquis who vho proposed to me I could almost imagine drawing his saber aber and using it with wilh effect should I tease him in any nry l the t the little ways wa s American g tease t c their American lovers Js But TIll t I yas ryas in such charmed d' d dawe awe of this this' this Spaniard that I was careful not to o be os as saucy lUCY as as I knew new I how h w. w The Flit rh constant realisation tion of what he 1 si mi in 10 teas ho however ho phat delightful A n r r iii wr r i i t. t 1 l t n 01 h i 1 t tn t t a t 1 t. t liis a s ov or inis Sian pug pays I I I I i j The ideal lover is a man who docs does big things in the open if possible A bridge builder would make an excel excel- excellent excellent excellent lent lover A carpenter would bring such to his proposal as would be utterly lacking to the endearments of a tailor for instance When we have hae briefly brielly considered consi ered the theae age ae and the nationality and the profession profession sion lion of the man it is time to deter deter- determine determine determine mine the proper place for the ideal courtship I have received a proposal from a a. a descendant t of a do doge e in Venice V en ice Ive I've smiled nailed at Biarritz as us a Spanish count bent his plump plum back and an kissed my ni m hand Ive I've refused an n English lord lor at Monte MonteCarlo MonteCarlo Carlo and a French marquis at Cannes After nil all 11 these experiences and an many many- man similar ones in other parts of the world I have decided that tr t the place for fo the ideal idell proposal plop sal is somewhere lc on tic the Riviera Nowhere else cs it seems to me mc does docs poesy so seep lie p into p a mans man's brood blood I Tiis i Spanish 1 t lover lo the thc Italian lover lov the French lover laver I er are aie all far fl moro more tenderly t n Ita t I ivr Il J 1 9 Ira r a i 0 a M. M I Ii S ri SYM i 5 rc r w t 5 ek Y w w 4 t 5 y h i r v Miss M. M ISS Edna 4 the th c talented tal en led and t- t Y charming nove novel novel- novelist I C wooed sl-wooed wooed by t I thirty thirty- h i r r y t-y- y- y seven se distin distin- t g u i s h e d suitors during dur dur- during during F ing the past pasty y year c ar but still T f d K t ao f. f t y iy l a 1 Geraldine Farrar and Lou x t in the days when e she regarded him as the one per per- perfect t. t feet lover and believed she always would appealing on the U Riviera than even in that cit city of nations Paris Puis Even o ven an American business man under that Mediterranean sun su some some- sometimes sometimes times tin forgets his executive e manner and anal un inflections come conic come into his voice when speaking to his lady lady- lad ladylove love lo that his stenographer stenographer has never heard But in my admiration for the Ri Ri- Riviera Riviera Riviera viera I do clo not forget that this is a workaday world in which a woman has hasto hasto hasto to struggle for her h r romance even as a aman aman anian man nian for his living I certainly realize how impossible it would be he for all of us to have for Jor the setting elting- of our romance romance n flower covered villa or a stretch of green reen and gold old forest path overlooking the Mediterranean Accordingly I hasten to add words of comfort for young oung women who must find their ro romance ro- ro romance romance mance on Main Street or Broadway sometime between thirty five and nine o'clock Ccok the following morning Next ext to n a setting of poesy I feel sure comes conies a setting setting- so modern and garish that the thing must surely sure sure- be the ideal romance or it would never find a voice oie in such surroundings Ive I seen seen- st bend bend- ing over o a table in a dairy lunch listen listen- listening listening to ing-to ing ing- to eager words of o young men as absorbed d in their m pf pr love as any an love maker makel on the Riviera ever was wasi All 11 he knew Iq was that she she tire the magic m gie sat maiden maiden sat t opposite eating apple pie These blessed pairs pair of lovers rs need to goon go on an I ocean trip tin t i to overtake the ideal romance rouan e. e i 1 No Ko survey of the ideal courtship bc be complete without considering the failures So many romances arc are ruined for lor sensitive s young oung women be be- because because cause their lovers miss the great mo mo- r ment There was my m dear sister A young oung man was pursuing her My sister grew rather fond of him But she disliked I his jazz He lie in t manners was fact a perfect perfect- embodiment of the jazz era My M sister tried to show v him him- other things thinAS than th n jazz All nice n ce women wish to inspire in inspire in- in inspire spire their men So did my m sister At I last she felt she felt she really had worked w the lads lad's regeneration f Then came the great evening even ng They were verc walking w in the grounds of his fathers father's estate cs te under the magnolia trees of our own South The moon was liquid I pale seducing educing And the thc man touched my sisters sister's si ter's hand Kid I live cant cant can't live without you ou said the boy unlucky boy expressing his sincere feeling but in language so so cheap that the spell was instantly broken Well said sister my whether you youcan Fi i can n or cannot you OU will have to Young man you have missed your moment The Thc ideal is almost impossible impossible sible to achieve a If we reach nn an ap ap- approximation ap- ap tion wb tee may ourselves call ourselves sue suc The Thc pages of history reveal all too few fc courtships court hips hip's that Hrat may be called ideal Mark Antony's wooing of Cleo Cleo- Cleopatra leo leo- patra I reg regard nl one Oi as of these th se even oven though it was sp liP sadly shadowed b by y her previous affair with wit Caesar s j l IV 11 Jr JJ i l' l |
