The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-30
Popping the Question.

PoPP1NG the question has always been
a matter of considerable importance
among lovers. Swift, who had no more
tenderness than one of his own Yahoos,
inditetl the most brutal proposal we know
Of. Tired of his shilly'shallying, Miss
Varying seems to have insisted upon his
speaking out, and Swift spoke out with a
vengeance. After protesting he is too
just to stand in the way Of her accepting
a more advantageous offer, he says he
must ask her few neutrality-suspicious.
he had long since resolved to ask of the
woman with whom he meant TO spend his
life: Are you in condition to manage
domestic affairs with an income of less
than $500 year? Have you such an in
clination to my person and honor as to
comply with my desires and way of living,
and endeavor to make us both as happy
as you can? Will you be ready to engage
in those methods shall direct for the i'm
provement of your mind, so as to make
US entertaining company for each other,
without being miserable, when we are
neither visiting nor visited? Can you
bend your love, esteem and Indifference
to others the same way as I do mine ?
Have you 50 much good nature as to en-
deavor by soft words to smooth any rugged
humor occasioned by the cross incidents
OF life? Shall the place wherein your
husband is thrown be more welcome than
courts and cities without him?" Surely
never was lady so catechised by sutton
for her hand. When Jane Varying felt able
to answer every question in the afflrmar
tive, then, and not till then, her lover SAYS !:
shall be blessed to have you in my arms,
without regarding whether your person
be beautiful or your fortune large. Clean.
illness in the first and competency in the
second is all look fort" This UNIQUE
epistle ends: single you out at first
from the rest of women, and expect not
to be used like common lover" Swift
was evidently enough a very uncommon
one.
There is world of difference between
the love making of morbid, self-loving
Swift and that of CHEEKY hearted Richard
Steele; the ravens croak and the lark's
song are not more unlike. The Christian
hero made love like lover and gentle
man. He never dreamed of plying his
mistress with doubling question upon
question: Believing his Prue to be as
beautiful, witty, prudent aid good.
humored as woman could be, Steele was
contcnted to know she loved him and
WIN VIZ AOoo upOu IluSI. instead or
saying shall die for you, l profess
should be glad to lead my life with you ~
mat IS the way he pops the question.
A Frenchman smitten with the charms
OF fair Lydia 6terne, instead of trying to
secure her goodwill, wrote to her father
desiring to be informed what he was pre.
pared to give her upon marriage, and
how much he intended to beoueath her
He thought he would be able to saw to
Miss Lydia as Petruchio said to Kate the
curst:
Your father has consented
That yon shall be my wife: your dowry greed on
And will you, mill you. will marry you.
But Sterne was not so eager to get rid Of
his girl as was Signor Baptisa, and re.
piled: Sir, shall give my daughter ten
thousand pounds the day of marriage
My calculation is as follows: She is not
18, you are 62-there goes 5000,
Then, sir, you, at least, think hel
not ugly; she has many accomplishments
speaks Italian and French, plays upon the
guitar; and as I fear you play on no in
strument whatever, l think you will be
happy to take her on any terms, for here
finishes the account of the 100000"
Whitetield asked the hand of a young
American lady Of her parents, without
troubling 10 ascertain her inclinati0ns
and was good enough to let them know
they need not be afraid of offending him
BY declining the honor, since he blessed
God he was free from the passion called
love.
Miss Kenrick, the beautiful heiress eel
ebrated in the ballad of 1.-THE Berkshire
Lady's, Garland" adopted a singular
method of winning the handsome v0uno
attorney, BENJAMIN Child, with whom she
had fallen in love at sight. She sent him
an anonymous letter, demanding satisfac
ton for injuries received. Alter vainl1
puzzling himself to guess whom hi,
challenger might be, and how he hal
offended, Child betook himself, duly pro
vided with second, to the place of meet
Ing, near pleasant crystal fountain
There he saw no fierce gallant, only .
masked lady, who asked him his business
there: He told it; whereupon his fail
questioner, flashing a rapier she carried
for her security, said:
Il IL that did invite you;
1o9 shall we'd me, or I'll fight you,
Underneath those spreading trees;
Therefore choose from which you pleased
Rather taken aback by such a summons
to surrender, Benjamin asked to see hi