which a man must hang on to his nerve with one hand and to the girl with the other. If he lets go of either, he is lost.

   In love, as in poker, men play just to

    play

   —and then proceed to throw away what has been easily won, without any thought of its value. Thus gamblers so often die in poverty and Lotharios in loneliness.

   Nowadays, a truly chivalrous girl will "lie like a lady" in order to protect a trusting man's vanity.

   The woman who fascinates a man is not the one who looks up to him as the sun of her existence, but the one who merely looks down on him as one of the footlights.

   Don't doubt a man when he says, "I never loved like

    this

   before." Each time a man falls in love with so much more ease and facility that he doesn't recognize it as the same old emotion at all.

   The first time a man lies to his wife he is surprised to discover how easy it is to do it. After that he is surprised to find out how hard it is

    not

   to do it.

   A man always speaks of having "given" his heart to a woman as though he had done something generous and noble; whereas, nine times out of ten, she probably had to wrench it from him.

   About the only things in connection with his wife for which a man shows any respect after a few years of marriage are her reputation and her toothbrush.

   No matter how many brunettes a man may have married from time to time you can always be perfectly sure that there has been a blonde in his life.

   A woman with dark hair and eyes may make men admire her, but in order to make one of them

    propose

   she must blondine her temperament down to the roots.

   The dusky Cleopatra may have succeeded in making fools of a few men, but it took a dizzy little blonde like Helen of Troy to make a lot of men make fools of

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