en throw yourself, O courting youth, upon your own interior sense of
propriety and right, as to both the beginning and conducting of
courtship, after learning all you can from these pages, and have no
fears as to results, but quietly bide them, in the most perfect
assurance of their happy eventuality!

"What can I do or omit to advance my suit? prevent dismissal? make my
very best impression? guarantee acceptance? touch my idol's heart?
court just right?" This is what all true courters say.

Cultivate and manifest whatever qualities you would awaken. You
inspire in the one you court the precise feeling and traits you
yourself experience. This law effects this result. Every faculty in
either awakens itself in the other. This is just as sure as gravity
itself. Hence your success must come from _within_, depends upon
yourself, not the one courted.

Study the specialties, likes and dislikes in particular, of the one
courted, and humor and adapt yourself to them.

Be extra careful not to prejudice him or her against you by awakening
any faculty in reverse. Thus whatever rouses the other's resistance
against you, antagonizes all the other faculties, and proportionally
turns love for you into hatred. Whatever wounds ambition reverses all
the other feelings, to your injury; what delights it, turns them in
your favor. All the faculties create, and their action constitutes
human nature; which lovers will do right well to study. To give an
illustration:

A Case to the Point.

An elderly man with points in his favor, having selected a woman
eighteen years younger, but most intelligent and feminine, had two
young rivals, each having more points in their favor, and came to his
final test. She thought much of having plenty of money. They saw they
could "cut him out" by showing her that he was poor; she till then
thinking his means ample. All four met around her table, and proved
his poverty. His rivals retired, sure that they had made "_his_ cake
dough," leaving him with her. It was his turning-point. He addressed
himself right to her _affections_, saying little about money matters,
but protesting an amount of devotion for her to which she knew they
were strangers; and left his suit right on this one point; adding:

"You know I can make money; know how intensely I esteem, admire,
idolize, and love you. Will not my admitted greater affection, with my
earnings, do more for you than they with more money, but less love?"

Her