nobody ever tells--even brothers or platonic friends.

Some men select a wife as they would a horse, paying due attention to
appearance, gait, disposition, age, teeth, and grooming. High spirits
and a little wildness are rather desirable than otherwise, if both are
young. Men who have had many horses or many wives and have grown old
with both, have a slight inclination toward sedate ways and domestic
traits.

[Sidenote: The "Woman's Column"]

Modern society makes it fully as easy to choose the one as the other. In
communities where the chaperone idea is at its prosperous zenith, a man
may see a girl under nearly all circumstances. The men who conduct the
"Woman's Column" in many pleasing journals are still writing of the
effect it has on a man to catch a girl in curl papers of a morning,
though curl papers have been obsolete for many and many a moon.

Cycling, golf, and kindred out-door amusements have been the death of
careless morning attire. Uncorseted woman is unhappy woman, and the girl
of whom the versatile journalist writes died long ago. Perhaps it is
because a newspaper man can write anything at four minutes' notice and
do it well, that the press fairly reeks with "advice to women."

The question, propounded in a newspaper column, "What Kind of a Girl
Does a Man Like Best," will bring out a voluminous symposium which adds
materially to the gaiety of the nation. It would be only fair to have
this sort of thing temporarily reversed--to tell men how to make home
happy for their wives and how to keep a woman's love, after it has once
been given.

Some clever newspaper woman might win everlasting laurels for herself if
she would contribute to this much neglected branch of human knowledge.
How is a man to know that a shirt-front which looks like a railroad map
diverts one's mind from his instructive remarks? How is he to know that
a cane is a nuisance when he fares forth with a girl? It is true that
sisters might possibly attempt this, but the modern sister is heavily
overworked at present and it is not kind to suggest an addition to her
cares.

[Sidenote: Neglected By His Kind]

There is no advice of any sort given to men except on the single subject
of choosing a wife. This is to be found only in the books in the
Sabbath-School library, or in occasional columns of the limited number
of saffron dailies which illuminate the age. Surely, man has been
neglected by his kind!

[Sidenote: Indecision]

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