IT may cause a man sincere regret to get into a foolish flirtation, but the only thing that causes him real downright repentance is not to be able to get out of it. TO fascinate an intelligent man pretend to be silly; to attract a good man pretend to be naughty; to win a fool pretend to be clever; and to charm the devil pretend to be a saint. A GIRL loves to spell her soul out on paper, but a man can't see the use of writing a love-letter when he can compress his whole passion into one paragraph on a post card. IT is a sad fact that two people who go into matrimony with the noble idea of sharing one another's joys and ambitions so often end by sharing nothing but one another's towels and brushes and grouches.

A MODERN love affair is something like English plum pudding: it contains very little spice and sweetness and is mostly a matter of "dough." A FLIRT and his conscience are soon parted.
A MAN'S idea of constancy is being perfectly devoted to some woman who is either dead or too indifferent to demand anything of him. THE whole art of winning at either cards or love consists in keeping a level head and not taking the game seriously; but, alas—when a man is playing for money and a woman for matrimony they are bound to take it seriously. WHEN mothers-in-law come in at the door love flies out at the window.


A CLEVER woman can sometimes make a fool of a man, but it takes a fluffy little thing with a baby face and no brains or morals to speak of to make him make a fool of himself. FAINT praise ne'er won fair lady.
GOING through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite—everything seems so flat and tasteless. IT is most provoking to a woman who is winning in a quarrel to have a man suddenly turn round and take the argument right out of her mouth—with a kiss. WHERE do all of the lost hearts go? Well, most of the masculine ones go "down where the Wurzburger flows."


THE hardest problem of a girl's life is to find out why a man seems bored if she doesn't respond to him and frightened if she does. MENTAL science never cured a man of love-sickness, because in the average man's love mentality plays so small a part. A MARRIED woman has an awfully small chance of learning anything about her husband's English vocabulary, for the simple reason that he never addresses her except in baby talk or swear words. A $30-A-WEEK clerk always feels it incumbent to take a girl to the theatre in a taxicab. It requires a bona-fide millionaire to drag her about in a five-cent street car with perfect éclat and no apologies.


WHETHER a girl looks indignant or happy after you have kissed her depends a great deal on how long she has been waiting for you to get up the courage to do it. TURNED-DOWN lovers tell no tales. WHEN a woman says "There are no secrets between my husband and me," it is a sure sign that she hasn't found out any of his. THERE are dozens of systems for winning at roulette, but the only system for winning at love is systematic flattery. LOVE in a cottage doesn't seem so appalling when you come to consider that there is such a thing as matrimony in a modern flat.