The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-07-15
A QUEER PROPOSAL.
How a Cow Figured II One Love
Affair.
Observations on the Subject Of Popping
the ou"stinn''-->o Man seems Exactly
to Remember How 81 Was
Accom- pii~hed.

How did you get engaged 20 your
wife,
The question was put by a writer for
the Star u one Of the substantial fam
ily men Of Washington-onc Of those
excellent men who has = BLOOMING wife,
FIVE blooming children, and business
that keeps on blooming more brilliant
y year after year. He says lsc is poor.
and 50 he Is when he Is compared with
the plutocrats OF the city. but lac Is
solidlv. substantially rich all the same.
When ne dies. II his wife survives him
she viii have an income amply Sufficient
for the proper education Of the five
blooming children. and when She dies
they viii all have iucomes-not vast cs-
tatcs which viii make l. iIupuss Die Tor
them to 90 anything on earth but live
4 lie OF pleasure but incomes that viii
help in establishing th-m m the useful
walks OF life. Il i the people of this
type that make up the body and
strength Of the community. rather than
the enormously wealthy class that lives
only for pleasure. the drawing-room and
style But it Is not Of money that
this article wonld treat. but Of the va
rious methods of getting engaged: and
so the question was asked II this sub
stantial man Of family How did you
get engaged to your wife,
..iiy means OF cow hc answered,
promptly.
What? ! must have misunderstood
You said the writer. 4 did not ask
You how you got milk for your family,
but how you got engaged 70 the lady
who i now your wife
by means Of cow" he answered
again.
lie was prevailed upon TO explain and
told a very singular, unique and touch
ing story OF love. solemn promises. hap
piness and . cow. Here il the tale re-
duced to moderate length. The gentle
man MAY. fa.- convenience, be termed
Mr.. " and the lady Miss y.
Mr.. X, when he was twcnty-fOur
years Of AGE, went 10 stay with his
uncle at his country place on the cast
crn shore Of Maryland. Having said
that he had relations who lived on the
eastern shore. II has been said that be
was of most aristocratic lineage. for
everybody knows that the families of
that portion OF the earth's surface are
all of the very best Virginia itself Is
rot more noted for families than the
famous eastern shore. In fact, If =
geography were called upon TO truth
fully say what Is the principal product
of the eastern shore il would bc obliged
To say ''old families" Young y. found
at his uncle's house 4 Young Virginia
girl Miss y. Y. had nothing in the
world TO do. nor had Miss y. 50 tncy
killed timc 10y falling in love with each
other. 1t II not q bad amusement in
the country. Nou can read poetry to-
gether, sit on porches together, take
walks in the dusk together. The man
is pretty sure Of no rivals, the girl Is in
no danger of having the man cuticcd
away from her. y. and Miss y. had Il
glorious time for two weeks and one Of
their favorite amusemcutS every even
ing was to stroll down to the pasture
and watch the milking of the cows.
There was one COW in particular of
which the youth and the maid grew
very fond. She was young Jersey
Aldcrncy was the term used thcn-the
color of afavn, with a glossy, beauti-
full coat and eyes as gentle and soft in
their expression as Miss Us own. As
she would stand in the cool of the even
ing lazily whislling the flies with her
tail she would permit the young couple
to approach her and stroke her or
scratch her forehead. There is moth
ing particularly romantic in the act of
scratching a gentle COW between the
horns, but it happened that one day as
y. stretched out his hand TO perform this
pleasing act of friendship TO the heifer
his hand met Miss Y.'s. and the COW,
moving back as II impressed with the
conviction that she was spelling fun,
left them hand in hand in the corner Of
the pasture. After that they never
missed a day in the pasture and they
always caresscd the Jersey COW, until
one day KS uncle, joining them, said
jocosely:
You young people seem so fond Of
that COW that / shall have to give her
to one of you"
''To which of us?" said Y.
''Ah!" said the uncle, you must settle
that between you"
When the old gentleman went off, N
looked at Miss Y. and said, simply:
Can my uncle give the cow to both
of us?''
And she quietly answered: yes"
And SO this substantial citizen be-
came engaged, - he truly said, through
the agency of cow.
There are a Thousand ways of popping
the question, and upon careful inquiry
it has been ascertained that the method
which is usually employed upon the