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Often enough the freckled and fringrant girl wins over the professional beauty.

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Sometimes grown-up girls are just as shy as little ones—­and for the same reasons because there is no one who knows how to play with them.

Girls often play with love as if it were one of the amusements of life; but a day comes when love proves itself the most sensuous thing on earth.  And

A girl is quick to discover the kind of love that is required of her.  As a rule

Many a girl who has been sore put to it to prove herself whole-hearted.  For of course,

Always every suitor expects whole heartedness.  And this every girl instinctively knows.  Indeed,

Is not a half-hearted love, or a half-hearted acceptress of love, a contradiction in terms?

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A certain measure of the sophisticated or unsophistication of a youthful damsel may be found in her manner o f receiving the attentions of a stranger in a station different from her own.

Young women, themselves but rarely unsophisticated, view with a certain pitying sort of curiosity unsophisticatedness in men.  And

A young man’s unsophisticatedeness it is a great delight to a woman to eradicate.  Yet

A girl regards with complex emotions the man who has blossomed under the genial warmth of her rays; the flattery to own powers is counterbalanced by the evidence of lack of power in him.

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A girl thinks she detects flippancy in seriousness.  A woman thinks she detects seriousness in flippancy.

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What would be conduct decidedly risque in a city miss, is often innocent playfulness in a country maid.

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Between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, girls play with love as if it were a doll; very soon after twenty they discover it is a dynamo.  This is why

An early and clandestine engagement often works more havoc than happiness.  For

Either, one of the parties to the concealed compact receives or pays attention which perturb the other; or, a subsequent and acknowledged lover looks askance at the previous entanglement.  Since even if

A clandestine engagement (as is usually the case) is merely a flirtation with the emoluments which accompany a promise to marry, those emoluments are not nice things for a subsequent and avowed lover, whether masculine or feminine, to think upon.  Lastly,

A laxity with regard to the claims of courtship is apt to breed a laxity with regard to the claims of wedlock.  In short,

Flirtations, like clandestine engagements, are an affront to love.  Accordingly

To the engagement-ring should be as attached as much importance as to the wedding-ring.  Indeed,