The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-12-02
APPS BOY
And There Was
PhilOSOpf
BILL MEETS
Arp Tells How the Question Is
Asking the Girls Father-A
Bashful Lovers Method.


father took advantage Of the old gentleman
and tried his arts upon the daughter. 1t
doesn't take a smart. good loohlng young
man long to capture an unsuspecthS
maiden and so she surrendered at discre-
ton The mother generally falls INTO line
with the choice Of an obedient daughter
but the old gentleman wascnt 50 easily haf-
monized.
"Tu think about IT, III think about IT,
said he. II don't know much about You!
III have to inquire. l thought you were
coming out here to sec me, bu, II seems
was mistaken. Are you making enough e
support a wife? DO YOU lay up ything or
do you spend it all? What DO sara say
about it. and her mother TN st.is a sur
prise to me. sir; surprise, hat l might
have expected Il. / will consider u. sir. and
give you an answer before We return 10
Philadelphia"
My recollection is that It is awful
solemn affair to ask the old gentleman for
his daughter. 1 put it OF from day to day
/ dreaded it, | had no trouble with tue
daughter or the mother, bGt these old SOLID
fathers can't be beguIlcd with good looks
and houied words. 1 would Hike 30 see a DOCK
fun of such irteryiews-w the young
man said and how he said il and what the
old man said IN reply I knew q youna
man in the long ago who put it of until ne
found the old man alone in h.s field sitting
on n log and me was 50 excited that he
forgot himself and asked him 70 please To
step this way Tor a minute. The old man
smiled and said: Go Gnead. Jim. there IS
nobody behind lis los"
In my young days there had to be
personal interview. Writng letter 20 tine
OLD man would hardly have been tolerated,
but now iJ is quite common, ana SO the
modern youth avoids much embarrassment
Why. they even pop tne question in a letter
and cover whole pages with alteration ana
admrl ton and aduiatiou and all the other
atoms and some promises that are likely 10
be forgotten after tho honey noon IS over.
In our day the girls waited moGestly % be-
courted, but now they are more aggressive
and many OF them set snJres 10 catch their
game. Dean SwifC says ;hat the reason
why there are so many unhappy marriages
is that the young ladies' aDenu more time
in making nets than in making cages. 1
don't like these cold, calculating matr.-
m0nial alliances. The exquisite. ecstatic,
angelic questions Of love siould not Doe suo-
pressed. Never was a bride more charming
~ won than Coleridses Gelevieve. lie had
told her "a tender. touching story ana il
ended so sweetiy that
"She wept with pity and lelieht:
SHE hlusaed with love dal virgin shame,
And like the murmur OF lream
] heard her breathe my lame.
But I started to tell about the commotion
the preparation for the lufair That is
what IT, used 10 be called. ad it is a proper
woui. IL in the dicrotry and means
t1o reception ~ '9' Venus party a. ltle
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tho family Bible The good old book IS
getting pretty fun OF records Births. mar
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"f1u anu s'iu7 anu passes on-pdsses ON
anu cuts uo"h my lFlthdS, the friends or my
Aouth 70 warn me. Not long ago he cut
down Df. Battey, the nohlc-aearted surgeon,
the friend Of my family for forty-tive years;
the gonue-heartsd man whom everybody
loved. tie was younger than /. bat he was
ripe. te had done enough and was tired.
And only last week ne cut down br. Eich