New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25
HTMOR AND DELICACY MlAED.
YOUNG MAN WHO WANTS TO PRINT HIS
CURIOUS IDEAS OF BOTH.

CURIOUS IDEAS OF BOTH.
letter was received by The Tribune yesterday
with a request for It's publication 1t has mad tha'
thoughtful consideration which Is always given 10
such matters I'm this office. and 1t has been decided
that as a special favor to the writer of the letter
It shall not be published in full. and that espe-
cially the names OF persons in 1t shall be sup
pressed When the writer thinks IT over again ne
Will be grateful There is another reason FOR ieaV
Ing out the names. The writer asks that the letter
be published 'in justice to an estimabe young
lady Of my acquaintance" 1t might be Justice
but II would certainly be cruelty
The young man who wrote the letter Is ANXIOUS 10
correct report which he says is abroad that he Is
engaged 10 an actress. The Tribune never sald
that he was engaged to the actress and never
thought go. And how did this report get aroundE
Why II was for NJ reason in the world, the young
man SAYS but that he asked the actress TO marry
him Think Of that! 1t just shows what sort or
people some people are They 10 around saying
that a young man is engaged 10 an actress JUST
because he asked her 10 marry him. And this re-
port he says. likely TO hurt the feelings Of the
"estimable young lady who, he hints Is reaiy
engaged to him. and who lives In Troy.
And II he was careful OF the feelings or the
Young lady In Troy. why did he propose to the
actress? II was n joke a fortune-teller had told
her that she would have proposal on september
q This young man and some others heard OF IL;
they thought that the prophecy ought to be tui-
filled and they drew lots to see Whlch VI '"eih
shoud propose to the actress. The lot fell 10 him.
Thus I'm proposIng 10 her ne did his simple duty,
md this shows again how strangely things may
bannen when IL Is the clear duty Of young man
who is engaged TO young woman to propose to
another.
He says that the actress herself enjoyed the
,oko moro chan any one else" or course she did.
What rleht-mnded girl would not enjoy a pro-
nosql from young man OF such obvious deicacy
~ feeling But how much better 1t would have
been II all the jokers had proposed to the actress
That would have been fun than the measles
The actress would have enjoyed II proporuonateV
and the chances OF hurting the feelings or the
Trojan maiden would have been less. But 1t Is 100
ia,e TO talk about that now.
At this pont I'm his letter the writer begins 10 rear
that he NAV hurt the feelings OF the actress by
nuhlic announcement that he would not propose 10
her EXCEPT I'm Joke so he goes on 10 say that ne
would gladly ask her to marry him In earnest "
Nc had not already asked the damsel OF Troy
,f.er his he says yours truly" and II ~ quite
linn. fot the more he y rites the worse nllsttAsss
h. rnakes The poor girl up the river mere "ouIu
30 soothcd indeed. by her lover puDlshsu 49,,
gladly ask m actress 20 marry MN. N,u MS
U.rse Of hunor would he A comfort 70 her' toD,
How should she know that he was not joking "H'h
NJ r5 l.s Rhine would gIadly do anything within
tho uover Of the press 20 make the course OF rue
iove run as smooth az the Hudson IN the u.ssp
places but i IL clear nat the puonee, a II ike
s,na,rhcaf collision The writer ought 10 IN ink
his stars that there are newspaper men Det".s s
him ard ccnsorious world ma 20 ous h n Iii
certainly 10y o. more than any one else ana
wi prcfer tho n.coIrt without the names