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Scientist Declares Six Is 'WtiBM'
Usual Number, of Which
Four yire Without Reason.
their next proposalsonly half In earnest
about inn-, ami wholly In earnest when taey
finally net Till: woman. ,
His statistics show t Ixi t the proposal made
during tin- " puppy " love period If g. nerally
a serious one, and that the love of the boy for
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tIR Hveraire mun proposeB mnrriaifp lx times
hi lore lie Is niari inl. Four of thoHo times he
proposes for n ion which he himself doea
not iindoi-Htand n.l without any .'erlonw Intent
..f marivinn. om-. he Is rej "e.d ouiilght, nnd
onei' neei pti d for li- Iter or w i .
Dllt Of the l-t '!;,,.( T--,pr .-I -,ls f ,
iiviliiK.' man he j a.i. ph,i thiee time!' the
In Inn no more In eurneFt thiia In iH nml in i oi 1 1- hy the
name mysterious impulses in iiciepl iiv: his offer that he In
hi I'luposinn, nml It is donlilliil If such n relation nhouli! lie
i-efeiTi il to serloiislv as an e n fa .' oit n I to v il. ltnth nnder
Niaiel that It Is a Put itlve nrriim:. no a' aad neither hi-Hltaten
to hi. ak it off short or simply li t II ku by default without
'urlher reference to any umlersta mlliis.
These flKiir.s have been collected by I'rof. Arthur Thiel
tiniil. a I'i ntisylN aula socioloiUst. fneu persoiiiil ititervlewil
vith 'JMtl n en In all elassis of Hoclely and all tuarrieil men.
(nit of the l!NO he found only nine who hud proposed mar
l iane to more than ten women, and the highest was fourteen.
He found only three men who hud proposed but once and
married the woman to whom he proponed.
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Many Wed Wilhout Proposals.
Sir.iimer than tli.'it out of the L'So Hi re were foity-eveil
v.ho declared that utter they had proposed to many women
they never did propose to the woman they married. Twenty
six declared that their wives proposed to them, while twenty
one could not remember that there ever was one proposal -they
simply understood without a spoken word that they
were to wed.
Whctlur or not the men Imagine that they were not In
earnest In their first proposals of marriage in a uuestloti which
punzled I'rof. Thlclman, but ufter
analyzing the replies received
from the i!8o out of l.otm men to
whom he wrote asking for details,
he has urrlved at the conclusion
that they were In itiiiiest or the
majority of them were In their
Brut proposal that they were not
t. In earnest In two out of three of
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the girl at that age Is earnest, no matter what i lse it may
and also his statistics rev a I Dip fact that tlnrt -nine nf t'.
who answered married the girl to whom I la y first propos
having turned back to the firm l"Ve ufter proposing to se .
others.
Finds So Heart Broken Men.
The statistics i'ninili il liv tiiis student of cuiirtship re-Vi-hIb
love as a strange, tickle insl itutinti so far .is man is
concerned, for he failed to lind even one case n Ii, ,i i break,
lie does not think, huwi vr. that his ti st was a fiir indica
tion in this regard, as he arttia s that a heart lir ila n man
one who has had a Krcat love and lost -- would not ansver
his ipierles.
From the letters received he draws the following con
clusions :
That the Idea of marriage Is closely associated ulili love
amotm the extremely young, possibly from ohs'tvun f
their parents, mid the desire to possess Is the lirst lusiinet
of boyhood love. In the " puppy " sttige of development the
schoolboy who cherishes a tender feeling towards the curly
haired girl who permits hlin to carry her books from the
schoolhouse. who walks past her house at night, ih sin s to
own her almost as soon as he begins to " pk.e " la '-. Amonv
the L!SO confi ssiu s. L'a.'l wrote that they ,i'pi,.-td to m in ol
lrl aciiuaintutices before they were Is years old. and 'if
these 'J'.'tl were accepted.
This schoolboy and schoolgirl engagement extended
usually over a period of about eleven months on an average,
and In almost every ease It was broken off because of jeal
ousy. Only sevenie. n claim that they inn discussed mar
riage on a sensible plan in this stage of their nfl. i tion.-'. th"
others being content to be engaged to wed " when he made
his fortune "which, the sage professor declares, may be the
reasort that few of such engagements ever result In anything.
Some Propose to Every Girt.
After his first inoculation of love- the lirst passionette
the boy usually becomes u tickle, shifting being, turning his
affections this way und then that. Hitting from girl to girl,
and, from the confessions, it Is apparent that during this,
the "fresh" period of voting manhood, the youth usually
proposes to every pretty girl who smiles upon him or permits
him to call on her. And she at that time In the heart of
the "romantic" stage of development usually accepts the
proposal und wears the ring he buys for her. chielly !vof.
Thlclman opines, to "make the other gills Jealous" and to
hold vM1Hfesslon of the ring. These engagements usually
terminate In "spats." generally caused by Jealousy on one
side or the other.
That these secondary engagements are not serious is jit
tested by the fact that only fourteen out of Prof. Thlelman'B
".80 married girls In this period of their careers or girls that
they met in this period. Of the fourteen, nine were married
at that stage, the others went away, and returning afti r
other clashes with Cupid sought out tU" girls and rcnewc
the ellg igellll Ills.
The n cords show that over four-fifths of the men who
propose to girls in that stage-generally between is and JO
years of age-ate accepted at once, possibly showing that
the girls are as tickle as the men. Hut the large percentage
of acceptances makes more startling the extremely small
percentage of marriage resulting.
How They Felt When Rcecfcd.
causes of rejection are nuaierous. but another man
cause in a majority of cases. The rejection period
Irani Jl to 'Jo, and the fliturcs eo unili d trieo the i x-
Tin
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ran.'i .
peril nces of the i'nii show that a ureal iaan i
home towns and go to distant clths when '
by the young beauties. And the 'JSil seriously
were "fools" at that time and acre tint Ui
i iys I avi
thrown down "
stole that they
t broken but
trol vanliy
merely hurt as lo their pride
wasn't leva at a!;.
Th. re an shut n'ln-r sii-Hiure stat;
i'rof. Thielman s n si arches.
II. has h iira. d that hots from l to 17 generally pi
to women tilth r than t la msclves. their ' lov ' being prnl
admiral ion for some eiiali'v of mind or In art tml i
l'lalouio. Alter 17 tin re Is another s range change-ih y
begin to propose to girls bit ween the ages of 14 ami 111. That
stage lasts, apparently, until the young until reach) s tin age
of J", when he commences to propose without regard to age.
or previous condition of servitude, as nineteen confess that
they iio.os.,I to their mothers' setvants. ,
Another inleri sting fea I lire of t lie in vt m ig tt ion Is that bo j s
generally propose to fat girls until they reach the age of Jo.
and then In gin to propose to thin ones. I'rof. Thlclman did
not attempt to get any such statistics, so this discovery was
a oomph to accident and not all the Jso gave their experiences.
However, tin re were s. en t y-t wo who wrote and stated that
" tin f II ill love with ti fat little girl " with yi How hair, or
black hair, or blue e, a s. as the case might be. Thus at least
seventy-two imagined that plumpness is the mark of beauty.
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How to Distinguish Real love.
The 111 v. st i'at ion Ii.ih thrown some light on the iiiieslion
oi how a man shall know when he really is in love. The huge
majority of these proposing men declare that during their
curlier proposals they had no trouble in asking a girl to wed.
They could ask her without a quiver, but when it came to
asking the real girl it was different. Slosf of them claim
that they were " scared to death " and do not remember
clearly what they said.
Which may indicate although I'rof. Thielmau does not
say so. that a man who feels " acared to death" when he
asks u woman to marry him has the real article of love.
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SKIN OF THE FACE.
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A French surgeon has this grewsome relic,
the skin from a man's face.
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Highly magnified, the point of a needle
it look so sharp.
This calf was born without forelegs, but with nn excellent appetite. When the photo
graph whs taken the animal was ,'t weeks old. welg-hed i:wi pounds, and could, with some
assistance, wlk on Its strongly developed hind legs, though It dines on " two fours and
a sling," as here depicted.
TURKISH COFFEE SELLER.
FLA NT WITH SOUL.
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The features of this life preserver ere an
autnmoblle horn and an electric light to at
tract attention.
GREEK HEADDRESSES
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A familiar figure in Turkish cities. tie
wears a yoke, one end of which support! a
furnace, the other a coffee urn, cups, t tc. The
biokt'l statue means that the photograph
was I iken in Angora. " where the cats come
fi-iut," 111 Asia M inn I'nd. r the n nn el
Am1, it .1 it was a flour shmg city 111 the t i !
if Jmtu t'asar. It has only itctnt b. t 11
cuiimtud with Constantinople by u r.t.lwy.
A phntograph of ti'iiipn- inamlritke ro d,
the plant which was Mipposid to posses a
soul owing to Its 1 xti.ionliiiary ri s mblance
to a human face, and in nu dieval tiiuis it
was b. lit veil that on. could In ar the dltig
sl.li.k nf tla main! 'a!;, li.t .1.- it was tin n
up fn in the soil Ti , ,ol , ir. it , a p, t.n
w'n 11, p 1 tt si ci. a tin uci t i.-k
si. pp. d his tars with wax so thai lie might
not h ar the tri.an. ..f the niaiwiruke io.it.
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Sv, T 't f - t V
Ilakeii 4.4u5 years ago. Found on the Nile.
Harder than u railway station sandwich.
EVES OF SI'IDER.
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How a stone building was wrecked by the turlhuuake ut Uharmsala
T 't i
SAILOR OF 17 !).
FOR I'OISON.
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Ufctee."ti"
The lyts and ftenunata of tlie Jiimpltif;
spider i.Marpissa mnsicoral ure plat, d ma
row on the front of the head, tin sti mimua,
two in hiimhi r, hi Ing sit ualcd on c 11I1. r i-hle
of the principal t j, s.
C SK . O SAL 7.
STRENGTH OF LIQUORS
K.ul.v tireek hi a bii't sst s t . t ta el. of silk
Th. y ere put on 1 ke a net, but w ere made of
thick stuffs In bright colors.
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11. ices of men who use no salt are shown
above: kiln hi", Booth American, und (' n
tial American Indians, i'ol in sians, and Kr-kmitis.
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Fiviaf Vicvn'
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Vermouth.
K Irsch.
rirandy.
Tla ret.
This is tla w.r. i:u::
w Ian ashore in 17 lo.
b a th
Plan Boftorrj
1 . o. hi.- pin-. 111 but He sai s it
l ".--inl. 1.1 n.istakeii f. it an ordinary
or in fact any ot her bottle.