PROPRIETIES WHICH SHOULD BE OBSERVED BETWEEN SWEETHEARTS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 10, 7 March 1891, Page 14

PROPRIETIES WHICH SHOULD BE OBSERVED BETWEEN SWEETHEARTS.

When he comes to see you, let me give you a few hints as to your treatment of him, said a writer on sweethearts in the Ladies' Home Journal: First of all, my dear, don’t let him get an idea that your one object is to get all you can out of him. Don’t let him believe that you think so lightly of yourself that whenever he has an idle moment he can find you ready and willing to listen to him. Don’t let him think that you are going out driving with him alone even if your mother should be lenient enough to permit this. Don’t let him think that you are going to the dance or the frolic with him ; you aie going with jour brother or else you are going to make up a party which will all go together. Don’t let him spend his money on you; when he goes away, he may bring you a box of sweets, a book, or some music, but don’t make him feel that you expect anything but courteous attention. Don’t let him call you by your first name, at least not until you are engaged to him, and then only when you are by yourselves. Don’t let him put his arms around you and kiss you ; when he put the pretty ring on your finger it meant that you were to be his wife soon, he gained a few rights, but not the one of indiscriminate earesssing. When he placed it there, he was right to put a kiss on j'our lips ; it was the seal of your love ; but if you give your kisses too freely they will prove of little value. A maiden fair is like a beautiful, rich, purple plum ; it hangs high upon the tree and is looked at with envy. He who would get it must work for it, and all the trying should be on his side so that when he gets it he appreciates it. You know the story of the man who saw a beautiful plum on a tree, which he very much wanted. Next to it hung another plum ; it seemed as beautiful, and it was apparently just as sweet as the one he wanted. The seeker for it stood under it for a moment, looked at it with longing eyes, and, behold, the plnm dropped into his mouth. Of what value was it then ? It was looked at and cast aside.