02921cam a22003613u 4500 76976 UtSlPG 20260610134801.0 m cr n 260607r20251926utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 HQ Wood, Clement, 1888-1950 The art of courtship How to win a mate : (The art of courtship) Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Little blue book no. 988 Release date is 2025-10-04 Tim Miller, BlueDiamondHead and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) The art of courtship by Clement Wood is a practical guidebook on love and relationships written in the early 20th century. It outlines how and why people woo, frames courtship as both instinct and social practice, and argues that mating should be chosen wisely for lasting happiness. The likely topic is advice on selecting a partner, wooing well, and conducting an engagement with maturity and tact. The book moves from first principles to practice. It traces wooing’s biological roots, weighs reasons for and against marriage, and urges both sexes to treat courtship as education in the opposite sex. It advises how to choose a mate—balancing physical attraction, health, age, temperament, intellect, money, and social background—while warning against “reform” marriages and purely financial matches. It gives concrete guidance for men on making themselves genuinely attractive, communicating, proposing naturally, and continuing courtship after marriage; and for women, it dismisses gimmicky flirtation “codes,” explains how to judge men, encourages tactful initiative (even proposing), and favors being a frank, fully human partner over being merely “nice.” Engagement etiquette covers rings, public behavior, jealousy, and the fraught question of premarital intimacy, with the engagement treated as a test that may wisely end in marriage—or be broken. The closing section samples famous literary courtships and love poetry to inspire better wooing, while underscoring that the art of courtship is ongoing, mutual, and aimed at shared happiness. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Girard: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1926 Courtship Haldeman-Julius, E. (Emanuel), 1888-1951 Little blue book no. 988 https://archive.org/details/artofcourtship988wood/page/n1/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76976 117700 117700