St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-12
Liberal Ministers Start q Dis
eussion on a Somewhat
Perplexing Question.
Some Things Which Would
Occur We're Women to Do
the Counting.
How the Fair Suppliants
Would Be Received by Ger
tain Minneapolitans.
Bashful Bachelors Who Are
Liable to Attack From
the Ladies.

LIE IiDerai ministers started IL. AT
their meeting last Monday they dis
cussed the question 'Should Women
Woo?' and there has been a good deal
of talk about the matter ever since.
What the consequences of the adoption
OF a general plan of female wooing in
Minneapolis would be is largely mat
ter of conjecture. but just think a mo-
ment, and you will understand that such
state of affairs would prove most dire
full in results in city where there are
so many and such handsome bachelors.
Or course the dear boys would not have
the heart to refuse the impassioned
pleadlngS of some love-lorn miss, and
yet they could not always accept.
Ii acceptance were the rule in
every case there are several young Min
neapolitans who would most certainly
become most seriously embarrassed be-
fore many weeks of the new system HAD
gone by.
There is no doubt but that, were $50
ciety" to sanction it, the blushing dam
sells would take TO the new order of
things as naturally as our gifted mayor
does to thinking himself the greatest
| man on earth, or as Sergeant Kirkham
TO pulling roOmers. AS evidence of it,
witness the piles of letters which hand
some actors received from Cupid
| stricken maidens. Local AdOnises
would doubtless receive Just as many
gushing epistles, but that the sweet,
coy, modest, blushing, shrinking, timid
little creatures fear disclosures.
A word as to how some of the Mime
apolis bachelors would receive offers of
marriage from the opposite sex. Now,
there is DR.. G. f. Thwing, good-looking,
intellectual, popular. he would not long
escape the snare of some IMPRESSIONS
BILE religious worker. But he seems to
be confirmed single man, and would,
OF course, be greatly panied by the sor-
SOW of the fair one. He would have to
refuse just the same.
+ 5. II. Friedlander is winner of the
ladies every time. His natural nerv-
business would certainly be greatly in
creased by an offer of marriage, but
tSam is man of resources and would
probably end by buying off his fair
pursuer with season passes to Jake
Lifts new st. Paul theater.
Fancy James Gray, the statuesque
night editor of the Times, receiving
proposal. For once, jim would have to
reform from making cruel, cutting, cas-
tigating remarks, and howl out, Go
off! Pm busy. Go over and talk to
Wettleson."
Should the pursuer take Jim's advice,
John William Theodore Wettleson,
sporting editor, could, of course, not
blush. Blushing is out of his class. His
race won't admit of it. But he would
most certainly back out of matrimonial
engagement gracefully, with something
like this: NOW. by my halidOm, fair
lady, | cannot accept thy offer because,
forsooth, me heart and hand are already
pledged" There would be no appeal
from such decision.
Theodore l.. Hays is young man who
would certainly receive many opportun-
tiles to enjoy marital bliss. His shape.
his mustache and his Pll-give-you-the-
Observation-Disclosures smile and bow
are fOur-time winners with the girls.
Theodore would like to make all of the
dear creatures happy. but he could not.
He would, however, repel advances
very tenderly.
Lac Stafford is one of the boys who
would, without doubt, be offered a posi-
ton as head of family, but as Lac is
not on the marry. and possesses wlthal
a tender heart, he would always be in
trouble. Any one who knows Lac can
easily imagine him standing off would
be capturer thus: ':NOw, see here, old
girl, you don't want me; can't marry
you. That's on the dead square. Go
look up Doc Dorman or Lou WatsOn.''
1t is pointed and blunt, but not meant
to be unkind.
/. While Doc Dorman is fairly nervv
individual, and can play whist all right
or preside over the delibe rati0ns of the
Elks, he would certainly quail trifle
before an offer to place his head in the
matrimonial yoke; and his bushes
would turn ''thOse lovely whskers'
about three shades redder. But ''Doc"
Fever could accept. He has too much
fun in the clubs.
+ Then there is Minneapolis chronic
quiet man. Roger Vail. In order to get
in a proposal on Roger, the desperate
maid would have 20 get him IN corner
where he couldn't run. But you never
can tell much about these still fellows:
and while Roger would probably refuse,
il should be nothing surprising were he
TO eOyly accept or grow madly ferociOuS
and carve the plotter against his happi-
ness with an ak.
And just fancy a frantic maiden
throwing herself at the feet of Col John
Rees, the stately representative of Tenn
pie court and Company |. John would
treat the matter as a joke at first and
say, "COme, now, you're joshin' me.
You're tryin' to play horse with me.
You don't want me-" Should the pur-
would open with wonderment and pity
combined and try to argue the case, but
would be liable to captulate just so as
not Ito hurt the poor girls feelings
There is any number Of other bachel-
lors who might be enumerated as proba-
BILE victims of system of woOing ON
the part of the girls, and. like the fore
going, they have never'had the courage
to ask girl. and would probably retreat
were they asked. These few remarks
concerning portion of the unmarried
portion of Minneapolis male humanity
have been made for twofold pur-
pose-that of giving all who desire to
take advantage of the next Leap year
pointer as to some of the desirable un-
married, and of also putting them on to
the sort of reception likely to be met
with. If any rash young lady does not
believe all that has here been said it is
hoped that she will make personal in
vestigatiOn.
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