The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-06
LIGHTS ON womAn's. NIGHTS.
Introducing the Subjects of Love. Mar
riage and the Steps Leading Thereto

! anu the steps LeautDS
'.Do YOU believe in woman's rights?''
asked the girl with the roses on her
! hat.
THAT depends upon what you call
| woman's rights. If You mean the right
/ to buy your own mantinee tickets and
cling to greasy strap in street-car
/ / say No. If you mean the right to wear
all the pretty things your father viii
/ pay for and to say that you are two
years Younger than the family Bible az
| firms l say Yes replied the girl with
| purple veil.
You've been reading the comic pa
| pers, | see,'' said the girl with the
! roses.
} The other vawned: Never; all the
men do that and tell you the jokes
they never forgive if you say you have
read them. and it is difficult TO greet
them with a proper show of mirth
| if
That's just it-and if you don't
laugh until you are weak they go
away and say, Women have no sense
of humor anyway. Sense of humor,
indeed. Some of them may be very
glad we haven't"
My chaperon always used to say to
me, remarked the girl with the pur-
pie veil, " Now don't try to be witty;
just look up at the men appealingiy
and admiringly, and laugh when
ever they attempt to be funny, then
they will think: How stupid you are;
how smart ! am and seek your So
ciety ever after"
20, what wise woman cried the
girl with the roses. NO wonder you
have made such success.
The girl with the purple veil exam
med her gloves thoughtfully. 'Ye-es,
bat Kitty, did you ever have real,
genuine proposal?'
Why. wees, / suppose So"
''You suppose so-that's just it. The
men are SO careful nowadays; they edge
mp to the subject with such care and
ask the question in such a roundabout
way that girl doesn't really know
whether she has right to cut notch
in her parasol handle or not"
Yes, and if she gives plump NO
they wriggle out OF it in such way
tliJl SiiC - UiCiNbC ~ itCl dS II Sic ItSiQ
said it without being asked"
True. O, for the good old days when
lover would fall on his knees say:
BE mine without any beating about
the bush. Girls really had proposals IN
those days"
did they?" replied the other dubi-
ously, 'at any rate they say So"
laughed
81 never thought of that cried the
girl with the purple veil, perhaps we
will tell the same thing by and by.
Very likely. But there is Marie
she really does have proposals"
''Heiresses always do"
Yes. Well, she says that when
poets that he has done it often before"
Doing it properly must make the
trousers bag frightfully at the knee"
said the girl with the purple veil,
thoughtfully.
True, but they could wear the ones
they do in church. -
II think that in these days of spe-
teaching young men how TO propose"
That's so-now when Charlie
40 kittie, you never told me,'
That's true, | didn't mean to tell
anybody yet. Well, he simply said:.
See here, Kitty. everybody is saying
that we are engaged-tbat's right isn't
it?' and just blushed and said yes be-
fore | thought"
80, you dear thing. When is it to
be?'
in June. He's desperately in love,
my dear-orchids and candied violets.
Well, here's my car"
But we were going 70 talk about
woman's rights protested the girl with
the roses.
well, perhaps we did. Good-by."-
Chicag Tribune.