not need to ask questions; and indeed, there are few situations in life
in which the necessity for direct questions is not a confession of
individual weakness.

If fourteen different kinds of creams and emollients are within easy
reach, the girl has an admirer who is fond of out-door sports and has
not yet declared himself. If the curling iron is kept hot, it is because
he has looked approval when her hair was waved. If there is a box of
rouge but half concealed, the girl thinks the man is a fatuous idiot and
hourly expects a proposal.

If the various drugs are in the dental line, the man is a cheerful soul
with a tendency to be humorous. If she is particular as to small
details of scolding locks and eyebrows, he probably wears glasses. If
she devotes unusual attention to her nails, the affair has progressed to
that interesting stage where he may hold her hand for a few minutes at a
time.

If she selects her handkerchief with extreme care,--one with an initial
and a faint odour of violet--she expects to give it to him to carry and
to forget to ask for it. If he makes an extra call in order to return
it, it indicates a lesser degree of interest than if he says nothing
about it. The forgotten handkerchief is an important straw with a girl
when love's capricious wind blows her way.

It is not entirely without reason that womankind in general blames "the
other woman" for defection of any kind. Short-sighted woman thinks it a
mighty tribute to her own charm to secure the passing interest of
another's rightful property. It does not seem to occur to her that
someone else will lure him away from her with even more ease. Each