Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-11-25
WOMEN PROPGSERS.
v,ry NOTABLE PEOPLE SEND ANSWERS
TO NELLIE BLY'S QUESTION.
Ms, K.t. Field Says She is Social 2aswunp-
B,lva lockwood Writes Characteristic Letter.
ard Bill Nys Says BE Is Already
Provided For.
W. York World.
W. TUT"
uSho,I6 Wnmen PIopose?'

inc dav last week to Miss MATS
,v,is in tina Victoria Hotel. lunouttoneu
nv coat and laurcaed that all-absoIopg
question st her. Her bright eyes oanc'u
and seemed 10 say she was glad to nave
cbsrce to vent Ter option on me- one
glanced about a. the dainty WomNi'h
~; 4 : with which che has Frightened up
her apartment and then settled herself IN
an attitude Of luxurious lazines' IN re-
Ginning chair, her soft, red gown iaiiins ~
graceful IL Ida about her.
"What is the matter with New YORK!
she asked slowly. "Ma;rimony seems 10
prevade the atmosphere. l'tnat the feas1n
we have had such exceptionally Wat1
weather recently? No sooner had aIr!Ve1
from the glorious climate Of California
than noble and manly reporter iooSt =
me calmly bat firmly in the eye ana askeu
ma if marriage were failure. "hat Gu
know about it? I'd had no persc nal tx
re,ieuce. The very resto1 ycur OPINION
ia valuable argued the Logical eIo'tef'
y, is because you don't know, that you
ar, upprsjudi ei.' | confessed l did not
see tins force of this remark, but as our
most enlightened and Supp nsititou.lS
bent eat jury system is founded on the
same reasoning yielded to this temper
and told what I didn't know apythlog
ato1t. save as a locker on in Vienna,
ID now you a woman oftee THE WORLD
ss calmly and firmly ask ne II l tnink
women ought to propose for marriage;
which so many are pro iouncipS failure.
Miss Field tapped tie arm Of her chair
with her right hand-a pretty little hano'
on which sparblei some costly gems:
Somehow began to feel that she did not
favor the proposition. l was ready 10
argue the question. II can't gay thai
there is any reco;d Of happy marriages
remarked, resulting from women pro-
posiug. Julet's marriage was failure
I always maintained that che began the
proposal. Foolish Desden hin'ei 60
broaily-ss Othello was mean enough 10
tell the DakP, and before sill the people-
that he had 10 propose. He boosted:
"s-* She tina ked me,
And babe me. if had frierd that loved her,
I shou but teach him how 70 te!i my sSoEy, :
Spake.'
"Yet the happiest marriage ever knew
of resulted frcm the woman proposing, al
| think the world would be better il they
did more OF II"
EIf marriage is a failure, bscause men
propose, it m 'gh. be good idss to give the
won a chance and gee whether the re-
Turns are more favorable" replied NJ IS
! Field. with a smile. We're to have
change Of National Administration, and q
pere:al revolution, social as we'll az political
might purify the air. I was highly amused
at the answers given by thoee TO whom on
mt this awful cOnundrum 10 last Sunday e
| B'orlI. Oae woman thought her sex
should wait 10 BE- asked. All thu men,
save one, thought it would be time and
money in their pockets if the present fash,
ion were reve. sed. The sole male tXcep'
ton thought there should be no proposals
Whatever. Does he want to get to heaVe
before lis time? You know that in
! heaven there is neither marrying nor giving
in marriage. Evidently Mr.. G ll4tte does
no. wish TO be He'll by the L !emy.' This
is very u7priteful in him, considering
what tae 'E1emy has done for his fame
and fortune
A SOCIAL MUGWUMP.
$50 YOU don't bsliev. in women p:o.
posing?"
You know in republic we are sup
posed to acc apt the will Of the majority,
| Miss Field said, "As the m GRITTY Of those
interviewed declare that women ought to
propose, perhaps should az zee with them,
but don't. I'm a Social Mugwump snd
think people should do as they please,
providing they harm no enc else in TIE
dting. It's absurd to suppose that women
have not proro cl from tiEe immemorial.
OF course we except our FIST parents, f1I
! Adam and Eve Guild rot te|p themselves.
1t was Hob: on's cdoiCs.' A woman pro
poses when she ird ties in every tone,
and look, and gesture Tat she prefe one
man u all o'htr5. 4 MN does tie same
thing. As there are so0gs without verde,
so there are p op,sals without words, and
it is this kind OF proposal that women have
been making from the beginning o.
creation"
Don't you think tte-s are times wher
a womsn is justified in pIopCs.ng?' 1asket
mildly.
81 can conceive Of situations in which i
would he not only proper but perhap,
necessary for thu woman to speak fret
where she has the power, or the wealth, o.
both, and he has tor mucl priie Of sex II
tell tire story of his heart" tha sait
thougtiully. 1t is natural that a ma
should wish to give and not receive
though heaven knows you would not thiol
80 from the way heiresses are puTsued-bl
am talking of men who are worthy Of III
name"
Don't you think women wonld fear
possible refusal too much to proposs?
''Bs asur d til t a woman who propu e.
would know her lovers secret before dis
closing her owr, che said, with smile
Words are tie final expire s'o1 of love
and en- and women fr, tl.rably certain
# each other before the era Of proposals.
Ualess stlr ction is mutult thsre shout:
be No proposal, ard wien is both know
it. Tlere is rO'hiag ID be ashamed Of il
an hoDest silsc io1.'
DO you ttink having this pTivisg
woali detract from Ter womanliness?
ventured.
II believe that the dangerous womeI
are not thoss except o7s who from impulo
or CONJUNCTION have spoken first. Be
whether nan or women propose s purely
an individual matter in no way concerning
the public, and rot Of my business.
HOW 1T WOULD SUIT ACTORS.
Dion Bouc;cault writes me this out
spoken letter:
| l am fer sweepirg awsy every ves tigt o
slavery, let it p;eselt itself in what torn
it may. ! hate privileged clasP, detes
prtjudices however respectable, and re
speciality i'sslf cessss to be rsspectabl,