The Bossier banner., 1891-11-12

When Tom, Dick or Harry sets out
10 court his Angelina is it ''of malice
mepense and aforethought, or does
it all occur ON the spur of the mo-
ment?
it has been much discussed ques-
zion, and one to be diversely answered
as long as there are ''many men of
many minds" Each girl believes she
knows just when she made the first
Impression; but the truth is very often
the man himself cannot tell when the
seed was planted nor how it germinat-
cd, and is surprised to find that full
blown flower is abloOm in his heart,
sWeetening and frightening the whole
world for him.
There is certainly no royal road to
saccess in love. 1t is as impossible to
lay down exact rules of procedure in
Sourtship as it would be to apply math-
ematics in calculating the probable
course of a butterfy's flight. Even as
HAO nlHu OlONCbll IL llSlCG1l,
othe lovers emotions vary and change
-Often against his will and better
reason. The man who is very sure and
calm in his courtship, who has no anx-
iety and is not sometimes assailed by
doubt and wretchedness, is, obviously,
not very deeply in love. Certainty
and quietude may be the aftermath
following marriage, but they are surely
foreign to that anxious yet too brief
season which precedes the period of
bridesmaids, minister, congratulations
and wedding tour.
There are men who, finding them
elves interested, plunge into a court
snip as diver takes his leap into the
waves He comes up breathless; but
The very force of his first effort has car
RED him far on to success. He loses in
aehcacy, but succeeds by the very odd
~ OF his way, or perhaps, because il
: she unexpected that happens. To
lns type belonged the stranger who,
travelling west with slender girl grad.
aa1e from Boston on her way to take
eaarge OF school, proposed at the end
y tne trip that she should teach him
now best to live his life, rather than the
salloren how to spell. His straight
onward assurance had it's charm, anC
sue exchanged her pupils for a hus.
oand at the end of the first scholastic
term.
V9ners approach the point of propose
a sensitive patient would take {
prescribed sea bath when the north
Wlnd has chilled the waves. They ad
vance to the very edge, but as the bill
Uw rolls up to their feet, they. afraid
u 9ne shock, draw back-only to agai1
a1fahce as the water recedes, and
my more, retreat precipitately as the
~eaKef returns. So with the diffiden
"Fer' Who so brave as he when away
.,Om MS fair? Who so determined t,
~ late? But as the moment ap
tsOaenes when he must put it to tn,
souVn and win or lose it all, his cour
Sreoos r, away, and he thinks: ''I'll wal
"Itie while and make more sure.
-u1ky Tor the man if he can at last 1nt
~S ,ISu nelp as Dorothy gave her lover
sno lof ten long years tried weekly t,
r.opoSe but always became fright
as sIsu and turned the question into some
ss us else At length in sheer desper
Se'Vh' she answered.:
NO, woan't be havin' the loan {
A. A., nag; but for the Law sake, Oba
aaal, @ yer want to marry me, WI
want yer say sop
a.. naen comes the man who. as grace
@uy as the strong swimmer parts tn
,,a;' a;efS' progresses through the intr
a.s; 80 VI courtship, and arrives at tn
mra, eu maven of acceptance safely an
ny. ny he is CONNIE IL ,faut in ever
a1cular; he does the right thing a.
Ms ana Invariably in the right plact
saa aa'sentlons to every member of tn
!, a from grandmother to baby 81,
ntas.' ate just what they should be. Hi
ssas lions are perfectly plain-and S
m 4ose Of his lady love and of all he
Nj, !. ne she and they know that h
bot asA' = she accept, and they approx
Ha,as s proper that a certain sen
Ra OF the-young- -man-in-love an
ti.ss hg-girl-innocent should be mail
non;:. na. so Angelo does all that
n ,se.Se sue and at last proposes with iu'
anty amount of ardor and unce
ty IN his voice and vo,.de g.,
k.si... ki-a behaves to perfection-blushe
sss and is coy, as 10 insumbeu