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The Proper Way to WooWho woos anymore? Not very many from what I can see. Yet the payoff from an accomplished period of wooing can be, well, woonderful. Wooing , I'm sad to report, fell from favor about the same time that chivalry did. (For that matter, who chivals anymore? And what ever became of that French actor, Maurice Chivalier?)The Necessary Equipment The most important ingredient to successfully woo is you! Everything else you need can be found in a well-stocked home center if you're a handyman, a garden center if you're a gardener, and a stationery store if you're a writer. Make the woman you love part of the things that are most important to you. That's true intimacy, and that's the best way to woo a woman. A writer can win a woman's heart by sending her poetry, by letting her read each new chapter of his book as it comes off the printer. Similarly, a gardener grows the flowers he sends to his beloved. He plants the seeds, waters them, and nurtures the plants as they grow and bloom. When the gardener give his woman those flowers, he is truly giving a part of himself. A handyman might make his woman a new set of kitchen cabinets. That might not seem as romantic as poetry or flowers, but the hours devoted to constructing, staining, and installing the cabinets make them an act of love. In fact, tradesmen probably have an unsuspected edge in the romantic world. As would-be author and Smith College graduate Bernadette Marie Miller has remarked, "I'm searching for the carpenter of my dreams."
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