Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1846-03-20
POPPING TIE QUESTION.

The following Is the Confess on" Of an
old Jachelor, who describes himself as ie-
ing nov 50 dried up, that he s little bet.
Ter than a mummy. and expects, some o.
these days, to be Blown away into du.l.
lie advises all youag men 20 get married,
and ieils them how 10 managr the "coug-
ling" The Old fellow speaks Ike one who
knows, though he has touch OF III c-al.
apple IN him: perhaps he got Jil,ed when
yonfS, Notwithstanding he preiends to
have Teen so "au .GILr
Nov, gentlemen, this going a court.
ing Is nothing to ,e afraid Of, if, Ike me,
one understands how TO do it. | doa',
mean 20 l0Isl. iUJ-lhc fact was-ia my
you"g drys | was gp to ding OF tvo.
In the fret place give oui}oa are a marry
!, z MAJ! Ii viii -inaoht d liuu'iies Won
dunIly. Lro,hpr, will invite you to din
nf!--uIaWas ak their daughters TO si.p
your iarorite sone,-yon, opnion MIL e
asked on all points and it The family has
. country seat, you can go there every
Saturday aid stay I'LL Monday, the sum
me- Though, without spending sHmar-
c'ef. You have 20 lea, sir, whatan "a
- ihG < 'ort smoking CCCmfs under such
cittUus;arCCs. A wax down an elm. !
Iauc ty mOou-.iaht-a d chance uee,ing, al !
early morlrg, IN the 'garGen-or a sum- !
mer a''rr.ooN together in The alcove, does I
the Usiaess To tel the uu.h, | never
crmr 30 near gong the voyage as once
when .prni-a week in the counlry with
n lIidesnajd had waited on: there was :
/ crrh almost Iuripd il hoacy-suckle, be-
hNd The house, AID adjoining the gaIden, |
which WIS perfect Paradise. There we /
used to sit; AID one day, if it hadn't been !
that the old rtieman woke from his n, D
n threw up III p ror window. iu-t a. GOT
bis dauehtel's hard in mine, the question
would lave Torped itself.
"l'ou sta {; tut I repeat. it would have I
IoPfed ltS"t. The i'ct ls-between Cnr- I
srlves-ihese things come aaoHishingiy na-
hrai after al, quite as il one was brought
up to them from child. Don't trouble |
lourselt a! out how you shall look, or " hat
you shall say-Ihe best thing YOU can do,
is not to think ofthe matter at all, but make
a plunge at once, and then the business is !
soon over. There are thousand ways to
pop the question. as there are thousand
ways TO make love. Some do it with easy
impudence- some choke for words and
suck iast-sOme deliver set speech and
lnfk for clean spot on the carpet TO 90
down on their knees-and some glide into
il gradually, like hawk narrowing his gy-
rations hetore he stoops, the poor girl Sit
ting beside him all The time, her heart fiut-
tering in her boddice Ike lrs shtened bird
I've heard ol one or two poor sinners who
popped the question in the street. There's
only one way more certain 10 insure re-
lnsal, and that is to propose IN letter. A
woman--ifther love yon as she wills
always frightened when she Genes serious
Iy 10 think Of leavirg her parents TO trust
her all with Il comparative srlanger, and i'll
you give her time to look at these matters
cooIIy, ten Done she'll give You denial.
I'm an old man ard have seen the world.
and let me tell you the girl who would
yield in tears, on a moonlight evening,
would write a civil refusal or eqalvCcal
answer the next morning after break last.
And then what a TOOL II lover m kes OF
himself on paper! read some Old letters
the other day-the gods forgive my sins
for writing such nonsense.
n's mistake, sir. in these matters, 10 lend
going t6Bs helping hand--a|l they k
is 10 lie left alo le--and it there are any
maddlirg youngsters about, have ihen' IN,
t" led. or drowned, it don't matter a fg
which, so They're out Of the way. Only
give two lovers fair play. kick your Tr'rh-
making aunts to the deuce. and--'nF ! Ir o.,
n!-the most domure will find way or
berg understood. even it, like oId Sr l.
soao Newton, they have TO make love WIN
heir feet Il may come rather odd At first
but thew will sit looking into each others
ewes, anil, by and bye, their hands will
somehow steal into each other, and so, get
ting cozier and cozier: the question when