The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-08-22

- uhCiy -dllcI dHHlie, 10 D6 rendered as ca
as trolling off log.''' All sorts of metho
have from time to time been resorted to, to g
around this difficult point in courtship-a
vertlsng IN newspapers. corresponding by Il
ter, negotiating through an agent, debut
Improvement has been made upon all the
plans lately, as witness the following:
"a few nights back /. small party of ladi
and gentlemen were laughing over the SUI
posed awkwardness attending declaration
love, when gentleman remarked that if !
ever offered himself he would do it in CO
lected and business-lke manner. For ii
stance, be continued, addressing himself to
lady present, 1 would say Miss S. I have bee
two years looking for d wife, am in the II
ceipt Of about thousand dollars year frol
my business, which is daily on the increase
OF all the ladies of my acquaintance, admir-
you the most, indeed, I5love you, and woul
gladly make you my wife, You flatter m
by your preference good humoredly reptile
MISS 81, to the surprise Of all present, L refe
you to father 'BravoH exclaimed the gentle
man. well, l Declare said the ladies il
chorus. The lady and gentleman, good read
err were married soon AFTER
Wasn't that modest way Of coming to til.
point and a lady-lke method, especially dur
ing leap year, of taking man at his word
Here is another method of popping the ques
ton quite as cool as the foregoing though
perhaps, not SO commemorate in prudish eyes?''
"A gentleman was riding with lady, all
OF a summers day., and accidental y-men' IS
arms, awkward things, are ever in the way
dropped an arm around her waist No objec-
ton was made for awhile 1 nd the arm gradu-
ally relieved the side of the carriage of the
pressure upon it.. But of a sudden, whether
from late recognition of the improperly of
the thing, or the sight of another beau com
Ing, never was known, the lady started with
volcanic energy, and with /. flashing eye ex-
claimed, Mr.. B. can support myself Capt
tau was the instant reply, you are just the
girl I've been looking for tSese five years
Will you marry me?" 49,: ..--..
Speaking of popping tie question:" we
don't know but it would be fairly in order to
wiring in the following from an exchange
BE sure before you commence cooing.-I
Our friends P and S. met enc evening at the
house OF an acquaintance, some young ladies, t
for whom both gentlemen entertained tender
feelings In spirit Of frolc, one Of the young
ladies blew out the lamp, and our two friends
thinking it favorable moment to make known
the state of their feelings to the fair object Of
their regard, moved seats at the same instant,
and placed themselves, as they supposed, by
the lady's side, but she had also moved, and
the gentlemen were in reality seated next to
each other AS our friends cduld not whisper
without betraying their whereab bouts, they both
gently took, as they thought, the soft, little
hand OF the charmer, and whoa, after awhile
they ventured to give gentle pressure, each !.
was surprised to find it returned with an I'M
mistakable squeeze. It may W ell be imagined
that the moments flew rapidly, in this silent in
terchange OF mutual affection But the rest
wondering at the unusual silence of the gen
tlemen, one of them noiselesslg stepped out, {
and suddenly returned with Tight; and there /,
sat our friends P. and s., most lovingly squeez-
ing each others hand, and supreme delight !
beaming in their eyes Their CONSERVATION /
and the ecstacy of the ladies may be imagined =
but not described. Both gentlemen sloped II
and P. was afterwards heard to say, that he P
thought all the while SIS hand fdlt hard" D
In one of the rev. E. H. Cha pins sermons Il
is the following pointed PASSAGE ..- ?
"Many man there is clothed in respecta- d
olllty, and proud of his honor, whose central Il
dea is interest and case, the conception that 81
'ther men are mere tools, to be used as will q
,est serve them; that God has endowed him p'
With sinew and brain merely to scramble and re
ret; and SO in the midst of this grand universe 10
which is perpetual circulation Of benefits, he az
ives like sponge on a rock, I'd absorb, and ie
loat, and die. Thousands in tl|is great city
re living so who never look o,|t of the mar m
ow circle Of their selfinterest, whose deca- vi
'gue is arithmetic, whose bible Isl theiredger; W
Tho have SO contracted and hardened and W
amped their nature, that in any spiritual est tn
late they would pass for SO many bogus dol WI
RS oh
Leigh Hunt says, "God made both tears and er
lighter, and both for kind purposes; for as an
ugh enables mirth and surprise to breathe 10,
eey, So tears enable sorrow to vent Itself pa ae
entity. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming SUI
,spair and madness; and laughter is one Of wa
G very privileges of reason, being confined to in
e human Species If
A youth asked his fathers sanction to his ant
oject of marriage. The old gentleman, re- sw
testing his son to pray with him, prayed that ane
the match was against the will of the Lord tail
: would throw obstacles in theil' way, and pea
Ike it impossible. The son, interrupting him, ne,
ed, 80, Lord, don't you do it, for must
We her anyhow not
No woman ever loved to the full extent of plia
passion, who did not feel humbled, (de- me-
hted in that humility by her exaggerated VIII
1 oyerweening estimate of the superiority of to
object of her worship. What State could like
!, what liberty decay, if the zeal of mans maj
sy patriotism was as pure as the silent 10y gre
/ Of woman's lore2 sew,
4 temperance lecturer, descantiug on the stro
entail and purifying qualities of cold water, who
larked, as a knockdown argument, that, c
hen the world became SO corrupt thai the ago
d could do nothing with it, he wa$ obliged sieis
i've it thorough sousing in cold water" vers
IS, = replied wag, "but it killed every skin
ned critter on the face of the airth, - any
he historian tells us that the Esquimaux expo
afraid to die on a windy day, lest their folio
IS should be blown away. We know some %
pie hereabouts who need dread no such an ount
It, They have no souls to lose. oil;
N eminent painter was once asked what he hot
ed his eolors with, in order to produce so oune
sing an effect Il mix them with brains, flow
: was his answer. or 81
then did Absalom sleep five in q bed?-- but