The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-08-07

! position OF gentlemen Oh this side OF tllt
house never took any notice Of case!
such as these 2
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Popping the Question.
The following is the confession Of ar
old bachelor, vino describes himself as
being now so dried up, that he is little
letter than mummy, and expects
some Of these days, to be blown away
into dust. He ad"iscs MI young men
TO get married, and tells them how to
manage The 'courting. The old lcllow
speaks like one who knows, though he
has touch Of the crab-applc in him;
perhaps he got tilted when Young, not.
wlhssanding he pretentls 10 be so az
fah.
Now, gentlemen this going court
ing is nothing to be afraid of, il, like
me, one understands how to do it.
don't mean 10 boast, bu,-,hn fact was
in my young days was up 10 thing
or two. In the first place. give out lha,
you arc marrying man twill smooth
difficulties wonderfully. Brothers will
invite yo,i to odinncr-mammns ask their
daugatess,tp sing your fnvoritc songs,
Your opinion will be asked on all points,
and ifihe family have u country scat.
lyotisenn you ggoihere eyeFy Saturday night
fantl stay I'LL Mondayt, The summee
lilrotIgta without spending a somafci,cas
3 fpusye no idea, sir, NJ bat an easy;ihsBg
siets sinlies sath cir
IS nM,5tiiit;ii d
ehancc meeting nj carly morning in the
garden, or summer afternoon toceih.
cr in the n!covcs does the business. To
tell the truth never came so near 20.
ing as when spcn, week IN the coun.
try with Il bridesmaid had waited on;
there was porch almost buried in hon.
cysmck!c, behind the house. and adion>
ing the garden, which was perfect
paradise. There we used 10 sit, and
one day. if il hadn't been that tho old
gentleman woke from his nap and
threw up the pnrlor window, Just as |
90, his daughters hand in mine, the
question would have popped itself.
You stare; bat repeat, il would
have popped itself. The fac, is-bc~
tween ourselves, those things comes as.
tonishing natural after all, quite rs if
one vas brought up TO them from n
child. Don't trouble yourselves about
how YOU look, or what YOU shall say.
the best thing vou can do, is not to think
Of the matter al MI, but make plunge
NJ oucc, and then the business is soon
over. There ares thousand wavs 10
pop The question, as there are q ,hou-
sand WAYS 10 make love. Some do j,
with easy impudencc-Somc choke for
word: md stick fls,-somc deliver Il
set speech, and look for a clean spo, on
tic carpet 10 90 down on their knees,
and some glide in:o il gradually, like Il
hawk narrowing his gyrniions before
he stoops, the poor girl sitting beside
hIm all the time, her heart flutcring in
her toidicc like a frightened bird. I've
heard oi ono or two poor sinners who
n7pp"d The question in the street.
There's on V one way more certain 10
Insure refusal, and that is to propose
III letter. \ womnn-let her love
you as she Willis always frightened
when she comes seriously 10 think o!
leaving her parents 10 trust her all with
n comparative stranger, and if YOU give
her time 10 look at these matters coollv
ten 10 one she'll give YOU deninl--l
am an old man, and have seen the
world, and lcImc tell you, the girl who
yields 10 tears, on n moonlight evening
wouid write civil refusal or an equiv.
| oca! answer the next morning ufci
breakfast. And then what fool 10.
vcr makes of himscl on paper! lcnd
some letters the other day--ihr gods
iurgivc my sins for writing snch.
lis n mistake, sir. in these matters
TO lend the young q helping hand-ni
| they ask, is 10 be left nlonc-nnd i
there are any m"ddling youngsters
about, have them put to bed or drown
cd, ii don't matter which, so they're on
Of The way. Only give TO lovers fni'
! play, kick your match. moking aunts lc
the deuce, and my life on it, the mos,
! demurc will find n way of being un,ler
stood, even if, like old Sir Isnnc New.
ton, they have to make love with thcir
feet II may come rather odd at first
but they will sit looking into each 9th,
cr's eyes until, by and by, their hand.
will soma how, steal into each other
and so, getting cosicr and cosicr, ,ht
qncslion, when they lcos, expect it, vii
pop out, like cork from champaign,
bolIlc. 1t will pop itself"
lie that prye,h into cloud may b,
stricken with q thunderbot.