SUGGESTIONS ON THE ART OF COURTING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2251, 11 December 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

SUGGESTIONS ON THE ART OF COURTING.

Thk New York Mail and Express has some practical suggestions on the art of courting : Select the girl. Agree with girl's father in politics «nd the mother in religion. If you have a rival keep an eyo on him ; if he is a widower keep two eyes on him. Don't swear to the girl that you have no bad habits. It will be enough for you to say that you never heard your* self Bnore in your sleep. Don't put much sweet stuff on paper. If you do you will hear it rend in af ttr yearn, when your wife has Home especial purpose in inflicting upon you the aovere&t punishment known to a married man. Go home at a reasonable hour in the evening. Don't wait until the girl has to throw her whole soul into a yawn that nhe can't cover with both hands. A little thing like that might cause a coolness at the rery beginning 1 of the game. In cold weather finish saying good night in the house. Don't stretch it out all the way to the front g<ite and thus lay the foundation for future asthma, bronchitis, neuralgia, 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 very annoying to a bride who has pictured to herself a life of luxury in her ancestral hall to learn too late that you expect her to take you in out of the cold. Don't be too «oft. Don't say : ' These little hands shall never do a stroke of work when they are mine,' and 'you shall 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, and the girl has a fine retentive memory for the soft things and silly promises of courtship, occasionally, in after years, when she is washing the dinner dishe3 or patching the west end of your ttouaers, she will remind you of them in a cold, sarcastic tone.