New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-05-07
THE LEAP YEAR QUESTION.
Do or Do Not Women Mako tho
Matches.

placed at decided disadvantage in
making choice. There is Just where
the writer, though he may have no
great experience, proposes not to
agree, but on tho other hand to argue
against the opinion. Magazines and
other periodicals publish deliberately
written articles deploring the alleged
fact that q woman has no voice in the
matter; that, however much she may
adore man, she must hold herself in
reserve and patiently wait for him to
pop the question. Perhaps he never
does it. but she waits all the same, and
finally, after long years of waiting, she
marries some man she doesn't care q
picayune for, or becomes the proven
bal dried up old maid. A leading met
ropolitan journal, in feryid edition on
Leap year, says: yet tho unwritten
laws of society, as Interchangeable as
those of the Modes and the Persians,
hold the woman back under penalty Of
social ostracism. She must wait until
some man condescends to bestow upon
her his distinguished attentions. II
she finds him worthy and lovable. and
well suited for husband, she must
keep her mouth sealed. It would be
highly improper TO indicate BY word or
action that she would be pleased to
walk side by side with him for life. !"
This is all very fine. But it is bosh.
Pure unadulterated nonsense, and ev-
cry married woman, every married
man, and good many single people
will agree that the author knew moth.
ing about it, or was talking for effect
Directly contrary to this fact, the fact
stands out in bold relief that tho wom-
en- make nine ont Of every ten matches.
II she makes up her mind that she
wants q man and goes for him, she
gets him if she ever stood any show at
all.
What married man win deny that his
wife during the balmy, romantic days
of the courtship did not, in all the ton.
der ways for which the sex is noted.
make it apparent to him that his atten-
tons were relishedr That she liked to
have him come and see her, and show
cd her preference for him in number.
less little ways, after which there was
not . shadow Of indelicacyl II . man
II naturally modest and bashful : good,
sensible girl can make him feel 90 per-
fectly at home and show that she ap-
preciates and esteems him 80 much
and would like, perhaps. to DO moro to
him, that he finally throws of al re-
serve, feels perfectly ct home, and the
proposal Is made In way so easy and
natural that It comes as q matter Of
course to both.
Continuing, the inexperienced or hy-
pothetical writer says: Unless he
speak the necessary words, It II Ill @
It It had never been. He goes sway
free to choose some other woman.
while she must wait to be chosen by
some other man" Poor thinei hard
must be her lot but If she wants the
man and he has any idea that he wants
her, it can be bet on as . dead moral
certainty that she is going to got him,
and she don't say: sWill you marry
me, John7" either. There are cases
when woman who has not spoken
word Of affection considers that she
has been rejected By man she has
made love to- She knows that she has
given him every reason to believe that
she loves him, and II he keeps his dis
lance and doesn't invite closer friend
ship, she feels that her affection Is not
reciprocated, and ninety mine cases IN 8
hundred she has hit the nail squarely
on the head.
a woman can show her esteem In .
hundred ways man cannot. No mat
ter what her walk In life, II she really
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