The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-12
CONCERNING MEN HND WOMEN.
By the REV. E. J. HARDY. M. A.

(AH Rights Reserred.)

In every department of life there is
humor, and nowhere more than in mat
tiers connected with matrimOny. Take
for example the ways in which people
propose to each other If any chance
hundred of BenedictS could be com
PEELED to write down a perfectly truth
full account of how they proposed to
their wives, or how those ladies went
half way to meet them we should have
a chapter of human nature full OF
humOr of the unconscious kind. l say
the way the women who married these
men went half way to meet them he
cause l. believe that, so retiring is our
sex, no man would venture to ask a girl
to be his wife if she did not go just
little bit to meet him. But so good
natured are women that they are nct
unwilling to help a lame dog over
stile.
a shy young man, speaking of tie
difficulties of marriage, said to his
father But then you married mother,
and I've got to marry a strange girl!'
The strange girl can, however, if she
wish to do so, make things easy. This
was done for a shy young man like
the one just mentioned as follows: He
said to the young lady of his choice:
Il wish we were upon such intimate
terms that you would not mind calling
me by my first name" "Oh," she re-
piled, your last is good enough for
me-"
An Irish girl became impatient with
the slowness of her young man in COM
ing to the point and said, IF I were
you and you were me, Jack. we would
have been married long ago."
mo CROSS, NO CROWN"
A refreShment bar at large railway
station was presided over by a good
looking girl with red hair. A gentle
man waiting for the train asked her IL
she could oblige him with a match.
Yes she replied. IF you do not mind
It being a red-headed one" \ Ian
cashtre man said to his choice, Don't
you think as 'ow you and 1 could man.
age to make shift together pretty
well?" Well john" she replied,
there's been borne on my mind lately
them words about no cross, no crown
You're a goodish sort of man. John,
and to save you from missin' the last,
don't mind coming and undertaken
to be the first to YOU" This recalls
the grave Scotchman who proposed as
follows. Bringing his girl to the tomb
of his fathers in the kirk-yard, he said:
"All my family lie here, Jeanie-would
you like to lie here?'
Two or three hours before he mar
ried one Of the most beautiful women
in England the late Duke Of Suther-
land was met by friend in St. James
park leaning carelessly over the rail.
ingS at the edge Of the water, throwing
crumbs to the waterfowl ''What!
you here this morning. eyes" re-
piled the duke, without moving
muscle; Il believe l am"
To men of more nervous tempera-
ment, to be married without chloro
it would seem to put some men quite
off their heads, If at least we may
judge from the answers they return to
the parsons questions. a bridegroom
who had short time before, stood
godfather for a child, became mixed In
his ideas between the services of hap
tism and marriage Accordingly,
ho al
thou have this woman to be thy wed
ded wife, he solemnly replied, IL re-
nounce them all!''
'YUS-AND CHANCE IT"
A rustic when asked the same cues.
ton was SO shy that his answer, ''yus,"
was not heard. Thereupon the parson
repeated the words, and the rustic,
getting impatient. answered, this tin
almost with a shout ''Yus, l will, and
chance it, What a depth of phil
osophy in the untutored mind is r.
vealed by this chance itH' Perhaps
that farmer had not thought so much
about the lottery theory Of marriage
who, when he was being married at
Clifton some months ago, thus re-
ceived the question, wilt thou have
this woman to be thy welded wife,"
With enthusiasm, he extended his
hand to the clergyman, and said, as
though it were great bargain:
Done, parsonn' Another man. when
asked wilt thou have this woman?"
was not so polite. what else do Won
suppose l came for?" was his reply.
This must indeed have been a man
Of deeds rather than words. if 1t be
true. as it Is said to be, that the same
bridegroom. when the woman he'll.
tated to the question, wilt thou oh.
him, and serve him?" replied for Ter,
60 on, parson, III make her."
| see that in some American church,
eS they have rehearsaIs of weddings
the most important words being let
out L presume. With us the lady at
least does not require a rehearsal
She knows her part in every detail
and is therefore mistress Of hers Elf
whatever happens. Not so the I'LL
fortunate bridegroom. On the wed
ding day, whatever his feelings NAV
be, he looks as If he were making a
fool Of himself. He generally thinks
that. like a second Samson, he has. fer
the love of woman aIIOWo6 ,I, o,,o,