drawing-room?" The answer to this is, "For God's sake, yes!" In a
few minutes you find yourself alone in the drawing-room with the
lady of your choice and the courtship proper can then begin.

The best way to proceed is gradually to bring the conversation
around to the subject of the "modern girl." After your
preliminary remarks about tonsils and adenoids have been
thoroughly exhausted, you should suddenly say, "Well I don't
think girls--nice girls--are really that way." She replies, of
course, "WHAT way?" You answer, "Oh, the way they are in these
modern novels. This "petting,' for instance." She says, "WHAT
"petting'?" You walk over and sit down on the sofa beside her.
"Oh," you say, "these novelists make me sick--they seem to think
that in our generation every time a young man and woman are left
alone on a lounge together, they haven't a thing better to do
than put out the light and "pet.' It's disgusting, isn't it?"
"Isn't it?" she agrees and reaching over she accidentally pulls
the lamp cord, which puts out the light.

On your first visit you should not stay after
12:30.


THE PROPOSAL PROPER

About the second or third month of a formal courtship it is
customary for the man to propose matrimony, and if the girl has
been "out" for three or four years and has several younger
sisters coming along, it is customary for her to accept him. They
then become "engaged," and the courtship is concluded.