Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-04-27
If WOMEN PROPOSED.

What Would Happen If Progressive Won1-
an Sought Man a Marriage.
Mr.. Ward McAllister is ordinarily a
warm admirer Of Mr.. Henry Labou-
chere, who, like himself, is eminent in
society and journalism, although Mr..
McAllister is greater in the first respect
and Mr.. Labouchere in the second. But
Mr.. McAllister has no tolerahon for the
British editors suggestion that women
should propose.
cit seems to me-" said Mr. McAllister,
.'that Labouchere's mental faculties
must have been seriously affected by ad-
vancing age when he made such sug-
gestion. It is preposterous, sir. There
is no sense in it either from the mans
or woman's point of view.
"Huinan nature will have to change
before this scheme can be carried out,
and however far womens rights may
have advanced within recent years hu-
man nature remains the same thing in
many respects It is a natural law that
the man should seek the woman, not a
social convention. When the woman
seeks the man, it will be about time for
marriages to cease altogether. AS long
as men have any desire to get married
they will offer themselves. When they
nave ceased to care about marriage, it
won't help the women at all to propose.
"The woman who seeks man will
drive him away. In palmer words, the
woman who makes a proposal of mar
rage will be rejected. The more per-
sistent she presses her suit the more OBJ
stinately he will avoid her. The shy
ness Of prosecuted man under these
circumstances would be thing that
would surprise Mr.. Labouchere. Man
is naturally more bashful than woman.
If he thought himself in danger of pro-
posal from strong minded woman, he
would go away and hide. Woman can
only attract by passive attitude. She
has no doubt way of making love, but
| to be successful she must avoid any
of the open, straightforward advances
which are natural to man. Her attitude
must be passive.
"If woman asked me to kiss her, !
should decline to do so. Ihave, in fact,
had more than one such experience. The
request takes away any inclination to
comply with it. Itmay be laid down as
a general rule that man does not want
to kiss the woman who asks him TO-.
How much less will he care to marry
| the woman who asks him to!
1.-The only excuse for such reversal
of the natural way of doing things would
be an economical one. The woman's
! life is probably rendered more unhappy
than the mans by inadequate means to
carry on the household. Perhaps the
people who are in favor of women pro-
posing think that they would Only choose
men fit to be husbands. But as things
are now they are able to reject the un-
deserving, and, as have said, they could
not hope to capture the husbands they
desired by purs'-ing them, because they
would never catch up with them. Even
ie women did choose their partners for
life without waiting to be asked, there
is no reason to believe they would show
any more sense than the men OF any
more than they themselves do now.
ga great deal of unhappiness is caused
nowadays by the modern laws which
enable woman to keep her income en-
tirely separate from that of her hus-
band. am very old fashioned in this
respect. believe that wherever there
is a division of financial interest in a
home there is likely to be unharpiness.
A wife's income should not be separated
from her husbands. Young lnen with
ont money should not marry women
with a great deal Of money. who will be
in a position at any tilfets : hem to
go away. ~I
81 have made someSlar6 ~us re-
marks on this subje4l utll they are
called for There is no lowing to
what length these prog,1;NS5zJ, women
will CO. They have dosSola.IEng but
harm already, carrying estic un-
happiness wherever they go."-New
York World.