The Penn's Grove record., 1896-04-10
HOW E PROPOSE
Some Examples in Recent Fichon-As
.S.-timeutaI Age Passlngf


Some Examples in Recent Fictio1-As
the Sentimental Age PaSsinsT
II is said that there are al many ide
ais of beauty as there are men. TINS
truIsm also applies to other things
which is wen. otherwise we should ne
bored. Suppose every lover proposed
in precisely the anne wayl One enect
would be the demolishing of the busi-
ness of the story writer. December
authors CALAMITY vary the Interesting
moment In their tales. Here Is b way
they get around the difficulty:
MI, Howells' young lady in Harpers
after fatty telling the young man thai
abe guesses she don't care for him, and
he can 20 away, says: THANK you. l
only wished to know the worst. Apd
you're not going away hating meT'
mo; loving you more than ever"
She turns her face and averts her
eyes. "why-what are you-goiDg
forl"
"PhillIppar' He throws his arms
about her and clasps herto him.
Mr.. HoweIls offers no explanation for
ner turnabout propensities. His silence
adds weight to his scorn for vacillating
women.
Kate Douglass Wiggin strings u the
proposal in her story to a column, which
is bad-at least for the article. But tins
lovers are forty and thirty-six, SO =.
does not much matter. And they mao
teen engaged before.
In truth, Madge Robertson has a pref
ty story of a wealthy young medical
student, who so pitles a deformed little
child ct a clinic that he finally allows
her to keep the coveted exquisite silver
box of bon bons he was about to carry
as a birthday gift to the girl or MS
heart. He explains to the young lady
the absence of any gift from him. When
he had finished there were tears in the
girls eyes, and she extended her hands
you will 60 and see the little thing
again" she said. softly, "and II should
like to go with you"
"AlwaysT ventured the young fes
low, his heart beating painfully.
He kissed her hand. Then he kissed
her arm. Then he looked up into her
eyes, and then-he kissed her lips. AL
this goes to prove that the way to win q
girl Is to find an object of charity and
bestow on it something intended 70
her.
In Lippincott's, Mary Z. Stickney'i
novel, 1.-The Old Silver Trail" has
double barreled proposal. The first doet
not connt, because the silver mini
blows up and kills the girls father Ii
the midst Of 1t, and the girl breaks will
her lover, whom her father hated, h"
cause he has ideas about Providence
J and Its Interference. Here is the sec
ond proposal:
"Ts 1t really your" he incredulousl!
whispered, with trembling touch caress
ing the little hands. "You here? VIII
are you here, Dorothy"
1.-THE doctor wrote me that you wer'
sick," abe faltered, her fingers tighten
ing on his with a sort Of shudderlni
tenderness as at a remembered terror.
"And you came for that, Dorothy
sweetheart The last time l saw yo'
you told me that you hated me. 1t wa
not trueT'
"I think-I think more of you-than
thought / did" she murmured.
"Ah, the happy thought! God bles
sou for 1t, sweetheart-mine."
This is essentially a Western metho'
Of patching up affairs. There is nothini
so ~efficacious In the welding togethe
of two severed hearts as a case Of brail
fever and an understanding doctor.
Robert Bars hero is frightfully pre-
sale in ''The Understudy," in the Cos
%mopolitan.
"Oh," answered the girl, II have N
patience with you"
I'm sorry for that, Mary" said Oh
hond. ''for If I could have made a liy
ing l intended to ask you to be III
wife"
"Ohr' cried the girl, breathlessi.
turning her head away. After the usua
demurrer she says Yes"
Further search reveals the amazin
fact that the proposal-in literature a
there are of a plenty, but in the Englis
publications they mostly relate to my,
terious disappearance Of diamonds, Q
are tales of conspiracy or intrigue, an
in the American product the proposal
all done behind the sceneS-the reade
Is introduced to the engaged couple
to the married pair. The sentiments
age is passing, evidently, and we COZ
temptuously hurry over the romanti
episode to reach those dramatic crise
In life which seems to occupy the after
ton of both writers and readers-Ch
cago News.