{"product_id":"2940014025072","title":"Hints For Lovers","description":"A girl is a complicated thing. It is made up of clothes, smiles, a pompadour,\u003cbr\u003ethings of which space and prudence forbid the enumeration here. These\u003cbr\u003ethings by themselves do not constitute a girl which is obvious; nor is any\u003cbr\u003eone girl without these things which is not too obvious. Where the things\u003cbr\u003eend and the girl begins many men have tried to find out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany girls would like to be men—except on occasions. At least so they say,\u003cbr\u003ebut perhaps this is just a part of their something-or-otherishness. Why they\u003cbr\u003eshould want to be men, men cannot conceive. Men pale before them, grow\u003cbr\u003ehot and cold before them, run before them (and after them), swear by them\u003cbr\u003e(and at them), and a bit of a chit of a thing in short skirts and lisle-thread\u003cbr\u003estockings will twist able-bodied males round her little finger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is an open secret that girls are fonder of men than they are of one\u003cbr\u003eanother—which is very lucky for the men. Girls differ; and the same girl is different at different times. When she is by herself, she is one thing. When she is with other girls she is another thing. When she is with a lot of men, she is a third sort of thing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a rule, a man prefers a girl by herself. This is natural. And yet is said that\u003cbr\u003eyou cannot have too much of a good thing. If this were true, a bevy of girls\u003cbr\u003ewould be the height of happiness. Yet some men would sooner face the\u003cbr\u003ebulls of Bashan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome foolish men—probably poets—have sought for and asserted the\u003cbr\u003eexistence of the ideal girl. This is sheer nonsense: there is no such thing.\u003cbr\u003eAnd if there were, she could not compare with the real girl, the girl of flesh\u003cbr\u003eand blood—which (as some one ought to have said) are excellent things in\u003cbr\u003ewoman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther men, equally foolish, have regarded girls as playthings. I wish these\u003cbr\u003emen had tried to play with them. They would have found that they were\u003cbr\u003eplaying with fire and brimstone. Yet the veriest spit-fire can be wondrous\u003cbr\u003esweet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSweet? Yes. On the whole a girl is the sweetest thing known or knowable.\u003cbr\u003eOn the 6 whole of this terrestrial sphere Nature has produced nothing more\u003cbr\u003eadorable than the high-spirited high-bred girl.—Of this she is quite aware—\u003cbr\u003eto our cost (I speak as a man).","brand":"M\u0026M Pubs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079817412848,"sku":"2940014025072","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014025072_p0.jpg?v=1763599255","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014025072","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}