Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1911 — SCIENCE OF “WOOING” [ARTICLE]

SCIENCE OF “WOOING”

COURTSHIP MOBT INTERESTING! STUDY IN LIFE’S BTORY. i Love Signals Tooted" en Locomotive* Whistle Cause Much Commotion f In New Jersey Town —How Boston Gallant Won. i The science of wooing has always: been the queerest study of mankind! end courtship has always been thei most Interesting subject of consider-! ation in the curriculum of life. Several months ago the Improve--ment association of Edgewater Park,. N. J., bitterly complained against the whistle shrieks of passing locomotives. It was figured out that at least 800 toots a day were the total for regular trains yhich passed through the town. Men stationed near the line bythe association discovered that one train which passed three times a day was the principal offender. The attention of the watchers was first attracted to this train when, on slackening speed near a house at the east end of town, the locomotive whistle indulged; in-a wild and variable program of shrieks that seemed to have no partic ; ular railws£ significance. Subsequent investigation brought to light the interesting fact that the engineer’s sweetheart lived in the house near the line and that some such love signal schedule as this had been arranged between the girl andrher wooer: Two short blasts, "I am coming;” three short blasts, "Throw me a kiss;” one long blast, "A kiBS from me;" two long blasts, "I love you.” When the young woman appeared at the window and waved to her lover the latter would answer with a series, of whistle toots which would have put a circus band to shame. Not long ago there was printed in the newspapers a story of the way in which a Boston gallant had won the hand of his stenographer. Although it was evident to the wooer that the young woman did not regard him entirely without favor, he found it extremely difficult to get her to listen to his plea. The girl refused to lunch, bup or to go to the theater with her admirer. Finding every avenue of approach blocked, the determined courter, who possessed some literary faculty, wrote a short love story, in which the girl and he were the leading figures. This story he sent to the stenographer every morning for a month and ordered her to typewrite it for him. She dared not refuse to do as her employer com-, manded and, realizing through the story that he would never give up until she married him, she finally acquiesced. Analogous to the persistency of this wooer was that of a man in Detroit who won a Cleveland bride through the conveniently relentless postofflee. Every day for eight months he sent the girl he loved a postcard with a single capital letter written thereon. At the end of each eight days the seles of cards spelled, “I love you.” A prize for unconventionality in courtship should certainly be awarded to the Baltimore street-car conductor 'who wooed and won a housemaid who worked in one of the residences along the line on which he was assigned to duty. The maid knew the approximate timee when her lover’s car would pass the house, and juggled her household tasks in such a manner that she would be at one of the front windows at the right time. Every time the car neared the house the conductor would signal the friendly motorman to stop, although the stop was in the middle of the block. After he had thrown a kiss to the maid and had received one in j return, he would ring tlje bell and the car would proceed.