The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-29

balmy days of spring are upon us, he goes
and does 1t all over again with some other
girl 1t is then, perhaps, that the girl
VINO rejected him the year before begins
TO lose respect for him, and to wish that
he had maintained his grief little longer,
but she ought really not to object When
girl rejects a man there her connection
with his good or evil fortune should
cease, and he should be free to pull him
self together in the way most convenient
to him, and if he finds a solace for one
rejection by putting himself in the way
of getting another 1t is certainly no ones
business but his own. She had chance
to take the most vital concern in him, but
she declined it. 1t is unfair for her to
maintain any power in corporation in
which she holds no stock.
THERE IS ONE RIGHT WAY.
II may be that the reason why the par
ticular man mentioned above fails in all
his matrimonial proposals is because he
does not know how to ask the question,
yet, If practice makes perfect, he ought
by this time to be approaching very con
siderable degree of proficiency. There
is a thousand ways of proposing to a
woman. Thus, one old bachelor, who had
been a merchant all his life aud who had
seen very little society outside of his
store, wrote to the object of his devotion
and said
Dear Madam; Wishing a consignment
always on hand of such goods as you are,
would wish to be considered perma-
nent and exclusive agent therefor. Speedy
reply would much oblige yours, etc.
This epistle, it is reported, brought the
lady to terms at once, and they lived hap
PLY ever afterward.
Another unique proposal is reported to
have emanated from an artist, He was
laenorofa1.r i,l NVra apA 40 l.
was sitting in her parlor, and this is how
it went;
He-"I would like to print your por-
trait"
She-"well, I'll think about it"
He-"But please say may"
She-"You may"
He-"I may take some time to do it,"
She-"There is no hurry"
He -"I-I want TO take my whole life.
time to do il in"
She-"How often must sitl"
He-"Every day"
She-"HOw long every day2"
He-"Twenty-four hours"
The curtain had better be rung down at
this point, for her answer made the play
a comedy or tragedy. All the same
! Notwithstanding that there are probably
in the English language at least a million
| printed accounts of proposals, it is doubt
| full il any man or woman ever truly told
| the Story of that scene where no one was
/ present and the fateful words We're
| spoken. No man ought to tell. Every
/ one must fill in the details of these mat
tiers to suit himself, or rather to suit the
! lady in the case, it he knows how to do
| it.
/ Owen Meredith wrote "Lucile" here in
1 Washington. and, If ever book was full
/ of love making, il is this one; but does
I anyone really believe that the proposals
in it are faithful chronicles of things Lord
/ Lytton did and said HIMSELF Yet If they
were not, thenhow on earth did he find out
I about them Why he simply made them
| up out of his imagination, and wrote
them in beautiful verse. But there may
be some useful hints and general direc-
tons about proposing that Uan be thrown
out, always with the understanding that
all the details must be supplied by the
person in interest.
In passing, il must he remarked that il
is almost beyond comprehension that any
woman should care penny how a man
| proposes 70 her, or that her answer
should have any reference to the way in
which the question is asked. Does she
not expect him 70 propose2 Why. she
I knows what is IN his mind almost before
| he knows 10 himself She can, If she is
| clever, tell precisely what he is going
| TO do. Then what difference does il
make how he does it, If she has not got
! the answer ready to the question that She