The one thing about love-making that the modern man simply can't understand is that, in order to make it thrilling and interesting, he must really put a little

    love

   in it.

   In the war of the sexes a woman hides her scars of battle beneath a smile and a coat of rouge. A man goes about displaying his as proudly as though they were medals.

   Occasionally one meets a man who plunges into a love affair as he plunges into the surf, but most of them just sit back lazily on the beach and let the waves of emotion splash harmlessly over them.

   Never refuse to kiss him—but sometimes keep him waiting a little while. Love thrives so much better on the stimulant of suspense than on the anaesthetic of memory.

   Never question him about his past love affairs. It is not the women he

    has loved

   , but those he

    has not yet loved

   , who will bother you.

   Never fling your old flames in his face. If you do he will soon cease to be jealous of the men you "might have married" and begin to

    envy

   them.

   Never accuse him of being less ardent than he was before he married you. Many a husband would never discover that he was no longer madly in love, if his wife did not keep constantly reminding him of it.

   Never chide him for the same fault more than once.

   A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."

   Never refer to your own defects. A man always accepts a woman at her own valuation; and he doesn't prize anything that advertises herself as a 

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