GIELS MEN ADMIRE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 16 September 1908, Page 1

GIELS MEN ADMIRE.

"If ever there is a time when it behoves a girl to be 'commonsensible,' it is during the period of her engagement," observed an engaged girl to me lately, and I thought this remark worthy of consideration. Felicia, who had just spoken, is a ■ romantic girl, devoted to poetry ami music, yet when her "Prince Charming" camo along and wooed and won her she developed a habit of quiet, thoughtfulness that both pleased anil surprised her friends., "It is because I care for him so much, ' ' she said to me one day, "and because I want to make a very happy home for him that I am trying to be sensible now." The fiancee has a natural desire to bestow pretty gifts on the lady of his choice, and just at tho beginning, when the relationship is very new and tender, tho maiden can scarcel/ do otherwise than accept his offerings. But as the days pass and the establishment of a new home is being planned, sho who is to be his future mistress does well to pause and ask: "Will it not be wise to put away foi house-plenishing the money that lily lord expends so recklessly on flowers and sweets?" Once, indeed, I knew a maiden who went the length of asking her fiancee to bring her. regularly the money that he felt inclined to throw away on chocolates; and when her marriag3 day approached she Bhowed him i priudly an array of pretty knicknacks [ that she had thus been enabled to ! purchase for their home. > | Betrothed lovers ought also to consider the propriety of maintaining an attitude of reserve. Dignified reticence is always respected; unguarded expression of beantitude are often merely ludicrous. , "Since Marie's betrothal has b^en announced ahe can talk only of her dear Jack," remarked an aggrieved acquaintance the other day; and one can easily imagine how tiresome to her friends she must make both herself and Jack. , An excitable Celtic youth that I once knew was in such ecstasy over his betrothal that ho greeted all his acquaintances with the words: "Do j-ou know tho latest? I'm engaged! " Hia fiancee, on hearing of this demeanour, promptly broke off tho engagement, and the poor youth was suddenly plunged into corresponding depths of gloom. — Auckland "Herald." , >