The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-27
CuriOsi ties Of COurtshiD.
POPPING THE QUESTION.

tie of our present lucubratiOn. Much
winding and caution, and previous
sounding l. nece>- airy when you have
got a favor t. ask of a gr. at man. i
IS ten chances to n that he takes it
into his head {, CT s'der your request
eXOrbitant, and to mike this the pre-
text for shaking off what he naturally
considers a cumbersome ~appeudage to
his state-a a who has a claim upnn
his good offices. BuJ this hazard il
nothing in COMPARISON with the risk
you run in laying your elf at he me. :
cy Of a young zip y, f"nder of fun ard
frolic tran anything IN lite. Even
though she love you with III whole Of
her little heart, she posse SEES a flow of
spirits and woman'S ready k ack of
preserving appearances; and tho gh
her bosom NAV heave responsive to
your stammeri"g talk, sue will lure
you on with kind complacent locks,
until YOU have It'd your pi;iful Sto-
~" aud then she will laugh in your
face for your pains.
Men are not towards, because they
see. distinctly the dagger that lies te-
fore them. When a person has cool
ness sufficir Mt to appreciate s full eX.
tent, he has in general eli her s~elf-poS-
ses on enough to back out Of he scr pc.
or, if it. - inevitable, to march with
dus resignation to meet his ia e. 10
like ann it is not that poor Pill
garlic, thu lover, has a clear notion of
what awaits him. but he feels a kind
of choking about thr neck o bis heart,
a hang-dog inclin ton t. 6 } backward
instead of forward, a check, a sudden
stop, in all his auctions.
He knows not how to look. or what
to say. His fine plan, arranged with
so much happy enthusi sm, wnen Sit
ting alose IN his arm char afte' a good
dinner, with his feet upon the f. nder,
proves quite impracticable. Either 1T
has escaped his memory altogether, or
the conversation perv. rsely takes a
turn totally different from that by
which he hoped to lead the fair one
from indiffe. ent topics to Thoughts of
a t ndertr complexion, and thus. by
fine degrees, to inSinuate his confess
ion. Just at t, e m that he knows
it will be we'll received.
The desperate S ruggle and f1Oun-
behring's b, which some. ndeavor to get
on OF their embarrassment are anus
ing enough. We remember to have
Dccu luz 'iO h1oo tlIlIO
We heard the hi,' Ory OF he wOO;ny of
a noble lord, now ~ more, nariat d.
His lOrdship was a If talents and
Use. Of stainless pedigree and a
ia r rent,roll, buf the ver:est slave of
bashfulneSs. Like all timid and quiet
men, he wa vef, susceptible and very
constant, as long as he was in the hab-
it of seeing the obj ct of his affections
daily.
He Glanced, at the beginning of AN
Ed,nbu gh winter, to lose his heart to
Mi s., and as their fam lies were
in habits of intimacy, he mad frequent
opportunities of meeting with her.
He gazed and sighed necessarily; he
followed every where; he felt alou~ If
she looked even civilly a. ano her; aid
vet, notwithstand ng his stOutes reso
lutiops-notN iths'anding the c
agemeut offered him by h lady-the
winter was fast facing into spting, and
he had not yet got his out pened.
Mamma at last lost all patience, AID
one day when his 10 DIS up WAS taking
Lis usual lounge III the d awning room,
the good ady abruptly left the room
and locked tue pair Ia alone. When
his lold-hip, on essaylng to tax his
leave, discovered the predicameaG in
which he stood, a desperate tit Of reso-
luton seized him. Miss set oend-
i g most assiduously over her IL edle.
a deep blush on her cheeks. His lords
ship advanced towards her, but, losing
heart by the way. passed on in silence
to the 9th + eLd of the room. He re-
turned to the cha sc, but a al with
out effect. At la t. n rving himself
like ona about 10 spring a powders
mine, be stopped short nefore her.
isS -, will y u marry me?"
Wi II the CT at st l~leasure, my
| ,rd," WAS the answer given in a low,
somewhat tlmid, but unfaltering voice,
while a deeper crimson suffused the
face Of the speaker.
And d right good wife she made
him.
Some gentlemen, equally nerv us,
and uuaided by such a diScriin,I ating
and ingenious mamma, have
o the p an of w DING by proxy. Tnis
is a system which | can by no means
reconm nj. If a ma e agent be m
there Is great danger, tat,
before he is re begins to pl ad
.or Ii mself. Talking of love, even in
the abstract, with a WON n, is q
cklish ma er. Emo'iOns ar aw k
ened, which we thought Were lulled to
sleep forever, and we grow DESTROYS to
{, ourselves the pre- ty
s which she SO wei express
es. A female e -betw en- is less
but we cannot conceive
With " hat face a man can ever adj
dr. SIS a wOman as his wife whom he
mad n t courage to WOO for him elf.
Day. the Philosopher, had a fir ak of
educa Ing a wife for himself He got
phan girls en- rusted to his care |
on elteri 6 into recOgniZance to edu4
cate and provide for them. One
proved TOO muiish to make anythi o
IF. The other grew up everyth ng
ne couIl have Wi h q. And " I ho