Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-04-28
A QUEER PROPOSAL.
How Cow Figured in Ono Love
Affair.
Observations on the Subject OF Cropping
the Question"-No Man seems Exactly
to Remember How 1t Was
Accomplished.
How did you get engaged to your


Accomplished.
"llow did you get engaged to your
wife2"
The question was put by writer for
the Star to one of the substantial fam
lily men of Washington-one OF those
excellent men who has blooming wife,
five blooming children, and business
that keeps on blooming more brilliant
lyyear after year. lie says he is poor
and SO he Is when he is compared with
the plutocrats Of the city, but he is
solidly, substantially rich all the same
When he dies, IL his wife survives him.
she will have an income amply sufficient
for the proper education of the five
blooming children. and when she dies
they will all have incomes-not vast cs-
tatcs which will make II impossible for
them TO do anything on earth but live
II life of pleasure, but incomes that will
help in establishing them in the useful
walks of life. IL is 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 draw ing-room and
style But IL is not of money that
this article would treat. but of the va
rious methods Of getting engaged; and
50 the question was asked of this sub
stantial man Of family: "llow did you
get engaged to your wife?"
by means of II COW" he answered,
promptly.
what? | must have misunderstood
you" said the writer. Il did not ask
you how you got milk for your family,
but how you got engaged to the lady
who is now your wife"
by means Of n cow" he answered
again.
lie was prevailed upon to explain and
told n very singular, unique and touch.
ing story Of love, solemn promises, hap
pincss and COW. Here Is the tale re-.
duccd 10 moderate length. The gentle
mnn may, for convenience, be termed
MIR. y. and the lady Miss Y.
Mr.. n, when he was twenty-four
years Of age. went to stay with his
uncle at is couutry place on the east
crn shore Of Maryland. Having said
that he had relations who lived on the
eastern shore, IL has been said that he
was Of most uristocratic lineage. for
everybody knows that the families of
that portion of the carth's surface are
all Of the very best. Virginia itself is
rot more noted for families than the
famous eastern shore. In fact, IL u
geography were called upon TO truth
fully say what is the principal product
Of the eastern shore it would be Obliged
10, a. ~ F4V
1t his uaclc's house young Nirginiu
Girl, Miss Y. " hud nothing in the
world TO do, nor had Miss V, so they
killed time by falling in love with each
other. 1t Is not bad amusement In
the country. Nol can read poetry to-
gctlcr, sit on porchcs together, take
Wallis in-thc dusk together. Tho man
iS pretty sure Of no rivals. the girl Is in
no danger Of having the man cnticcd
away from her. y. and Miss Y. had II
glorious time for two wcciSs and one OF
their iayoritc umuscmcnts every even
ing was to stroll down to the pasture
and watch the niIl,ing Of the cows.
There was one cow In particular Of
which tho youth and the maid grcw
very fond. She was young Jersey
Attorney WAS the term used thcn-the
color Of fawn, with n glossy, bcauti-
full coat and eyes us gentle and soft in
their expression ms Miss US own. As
she would stand In the cool OF the even
ing lnzily whislsing 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 II gentle COW between the
horns, but II happened that one day as
y. stretched out his hand TO perform this
pleasing act of friendship to the heifcr
his hand met Miss US, 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
tho pasture. After that they never
missed day in the pasture and they
always caressed the Jersey COW, until
one day Ms uncle, joining them, said
loosely;
"fou young people seem so fond Of
that COW that | shall have 10 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, X.
looked at Mss V ard aid, dmply'
Ian my uncle give the COW 20 botl
of us?"
And she quietly answered: Eyes"
And SO this substantial citizen be
came engaged, as he truly said, through
tho agency Of a COW.
There arc thousand ways ofpoppinr
the question, and upon careful inquiry
II has been ascertained that tho method
which is usually employed upon the
stage and in novels is the most uncom.
mon Let the reader who is over TWEEN.
ty-one stop and consider a moment how
he made the various proposals Of his
life. Did he sink down on one knee and
lAaSRiR2- thu .xnunR Rixl hY tina hand