Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1891 — Courtship. [ARTICLE]

Courtship.

Hearts cannot always be taken by storm. Wooing may be too precipitate and hasty, as well as too slow. A man who offers himself to a woman before he has made sure of her affections is very liable to receive **tio” for an answer, when, with a little delay and assiduity combined, he might have made it “yes.” There is an instinctive pride in woman which makes her rebel against the idea of being too quick and too easily won. She naturally thinks he must hold her love cheap who supposes it may be had by a comparative stranger for the mere asking. Even iu the case of mutual love at first sight, she does not willingly forego the pleasures of the delightful period of courtship. The wild bird wooes hi. mate with long and mellifluous song, and woman feels it her right to exact homage before marriage. - a-.* The blind man may be something of a seer.