Project Gutenberg 2025-10-04 Public domain in the USA. 279 Wood, Clement 1888 1950 Haldeman-Julius, E. (Emanuel) 1888 1951 Haldeman-Julius, Emanuel Julius, Emanuel The art of courtship How to win a mate : (The art of courtship) $aGirard :$bHaldeman-Julius Company, $c1926. Little blue book no. 988 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.) https://archive.org/details/artofcourtship988wood/page/n1/mode/2up 20241115125958wood 1926 US en Courtship HQ Text 137705 2025-11-30T10:09:33.607013 text/html 112453 2025-10-03T22:52:27 text/html 310367 2025-11-30T10:09:37.270008 application/epub+zip 308941 2025-11-30T10:09:34.666003 application/epub+zip 172380 2025-11-30T10:09:34.059018 application/epub+zip 724988 2025-11-30T10:09:39.263991 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 710201 2025-11-30T10:09:36.823063 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 113400 2025-11-30T10:09:33.334015 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 93485 2025-10-03T22:52:27 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16355 2025-11-30T10:09:39.421966 application/rdf+xml 19426 2025-11-30T10:09:34.269999 image/jpeg 2569 2025-11-30T10:09:34.164013 image/jpeg 372012 2025-11-30T10:09:33.623018 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia