The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-05-27
Theatrical Cos.rtship.

Theatrical courtship astonishing that
cannot be Witnessed with feelings of
undimmed joy by anybody who knows
anything about that sort of business
from actual practice 1t may seem all
right to bashful people and persons of
bad breath or LIMITED opportunities for
a man to throw up his hands and beg
for . woman's heart the same as he
would plead for pair of old shoes if his
feet were freezing; but every man who
ever lodged = potato-masher knows
that = woman's affections are not won
in that way, and the noodle who ex-
poets to bask in the bliss of love re-
turned without discount will discover
after bit that he has been fOoling his
time away. if he keeps on mouthing at
her from q distance and saying his little
piece as though it was something he had
committed to speak ut ward caucus.
Fishing for q woman's heart Is good
deal easier than pulling in trout, if you
know how to go about it, but don't nm
dertake it according to the plans and
specifications in use behind the foot
lights, young man, OF you may never
attend lecture course IN your own bed
room. = t a
When a man pops the question in g
play he tumbles down on his knees and
bleats it out like lamb that has got
lost and feels bad about 1t and then If
the girl says Mop as any right minded
woman would be sure to do, he gives
her a look that would sour milk, swears
to be revenged, and skulks out with
eyes at half-cock, joins band of rob-
beers and makes himself disagreeable
from that time on. If anything win.
make sensible woman snub man, it
is to have him flop down on his knees
and make goose OF himself in that
way. The right way to pop the ques-
ton, as we have been informed by grad
yates in that pleasing science, is not to
monkey around like mourner at
camp-meeting, whining like a tramp ut
back door, but to 60 at it like man
arm around the girls waist and her lips
within kissing distance This beats the
prayer-meeting style all to nothing, and
gives a man some show to 90 to heaven
with his boots on. In case the answer
is favorable, as it is very apt to be if the
previous negotiations have been properly.
conducted, no man whose head is not
hollow needs a guide book to inform him
what to do next From that time till
marriage he walks on air, and feels as
joyous as a boy in swimming. The
sight of a three-legged cook-stove in
front of secondhand store fills him
with emotions he never knew before,
and he feels at peace with all the earth,
no matter how much he may owe his
tailor = aHlA If ~ +
But how is it with the lover with the
low-cut vest and sheet-ironi shirt front,
who has not bruised his shins in vain in
the stenciled halls of the muslin palace?
If he is accepted, instead of taking the
unfortunate woman to his arms in
long. lingering embrace that makes
heaven seem little more than way
station. he brings the tips of her fingers
to his lips with a jerky,, convulsive sort
of grab, sobs out his thanks IN a voice
like wind blowing through knot hole,
drops her hand like a hot potato,
plunges into the forest and is seen no
more. f3l Aifo l. ; -s5-t6- ts5N p.
1t has been claimed that the theatre is
schoolfin which lessons of the highest
value are taught, but as an academy for
the diffusion of knowledge in regard to
courtship, we insist that it, is a mere kim
dergarten compared to other means with
in the reach of every STRIPPING who owns
a Sunday suit An old maid can give
young man more points about sparkling
at a single sitting than he would pick
up at a high-priced theatre in live years.
Chicago Ledger.