to tame a girl
like that. She doesn't look as though she were quite subdued.

III. "He probably doesn't know how to manage her. I could train her all
right. I wouldn't mind doing it; I haven't anything much on hand in the
girl line. So that's the cad she's engaged to? Poor little girl!

IV. "I feel sorry for that girl, I honestly do. She's throwing herself
away. She can't love that fellow. She'll get over it when she's married,
and be miserable all the rest of her life. I suppose I ought to save her
from him. I think I'll talk to her about it, but it will have to be done
cautiously.

V. "Fine young woman, that. Broad-minded, bright, vivacious, and not
half bad to look at. Seemed to take my advice in good part. Those great,
deep brown eyes are pathetic. That's the kind of a girl to be shielded
and guarded from all the hard knocks in the world.

VI. "The more I see of that girl, the more I think of her. Those Frenchy
touches of dress and that superb red hair make her beautiful. I always
did like red hair. Honestly, I think she's the prettiest girl I ever
saw. And her womanliness matches her beauty. Any man might be proud of
winning a girl like that.

VII. "The irony of Fate! The one soul in all the universe that is deep
enough to comprehend mine, the peerless queen of womankind, she for
whom I have waited all my life, is pledged to another! I shall go mad if
I bear this any longer. I simply must have her. 'All is fair in love and
war'--I'll go and ask her!"

[Sidenote: Gold-Brick Tactics]

When one man alludes to another as a "confidence man," it is no
distinguishing mark, for they instinctively adopt gold-brick tactics
when seeking woman in marriage.

Those exquisite hands shall never perform a single menial task! Yet,
after marriage, Her Ladyship finds that she is expected to be a cook,
nurse, housekeeper, seamstress, chambermaid, waitress, and practical
plumber. This is an unconscious tribute to the versatility of woman,
since a man thinks he does well if he is a specialist in any one line.

Her slightest wish shall be his law! Yet not only are wishes of no
avail, but even pleading and prayer fall upon deaf ears. It will be his
delight to see that she wants for nothing, yet she is reduced to the
necessity of asking for money--even for carfare--and a man will do for
his bicycle what his wife would ask in vain.

Many of the matrimonial infelicities of which both men and women
bitterly complain may be traced t