Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-06
HOW SOME MEN PROPOSE

No. said the sweet thing in the valen-
| ciennes- trimmed dimity Dress II real
| ly wouldn't care to have him fall to his
| knees, and 'eXclaim in a tone of passionate
| entreaty, Give ME but a single ray of
| nope! L think that would be absurd beyond
| all things. L am sure l should feel like
| laughing in a young mans face If he did
| any or these ridiculous things. Yet l think
| even the old-fashioned, high-falutin', my
life-would- be-a- blank without-you way of
proposing mentioned in Miss Austen's
| bread-and-treaele stories would be better
| than the dreadfully slangy, matter-of-fact
way young men have of proposing nova
| days, according to what lot of married
| girls tell me. Only yesterday one of them
told me how her husband asked her They
| had been going together for six months.
One afternoon last October they We're walk
ing on street together. She bowed to a
young man she knew.
Awfully nice looking, isn't he? she
asked Jack, who is now her husband
" 'Fair-looking duck. said Jack. But
who's I-double-tee, It, anyhow? Don't 1
cut in at all?
She really didn't know what he meant.
Well, went on Jack, you're always
telling me what a good locker that geezer
is Now, is he the whole thing, and am
l an 'also ram" do | win? l just pass
1t up to you, you know.
She didn't understand him this time,
either, and l don't wonder.
cure side-stepping and don't want to
understand, went on Jack. All right. Can
you fix it for about three months from
date? That's plain enough isn't it?'
1T wasn't, though.
FIX WHAT she asked him.
The day and the hour said Jack To
get doubled up. you know.
We'll, of course he makes her a good
husband. but just fancy being proposed to
in that dreadful way,
''TprI know
Hill? Well, Jim just worked a bluff
that's the horrid way he puts it-when he
proposed to her. He'd been calling pretty
regularly, and one night he showed up
looking as clipper a lark
well, I'm off in a few days he said to
her. Nothing in the government service
anyhow. Going to resign my job in a couple
of days and strike out for Oklahoma to
grow up with the weeds
She couldn't help but show that she was
sorry, of course.
. am sorry you're going she said
She's a remarkably serious minded girl
you know.
Yes, you are he said, satirically.
Really, | am she said.
Say, he said then, If I thought you
Were on the level mean really sorry you
know. why-er-I wouldn't go. you know
Why do you wish to leave so beautiful
a city as Washington she asked him.
Surely, you don't expect to find prettier
place to live in?'
well, of course this gave him chance
to say that h was only staying in Wash
ington on her account, but that as long
as she didn't seem to care, etc, etc.
Another girl told me that the sheer
inpudence with which her husband pro-
posed to her simply captivating. 1t
was just about this time last spring. and
they were walking through Lafayette
Square.
Trees and flowers look nice. don't they?
he said to her. in an off-hand sort of way.
swell season in Washington, spring. isn't
it? We won't be thing but married when
the lilacs show up next spring, will we?'
Did you ever hear of such assurance?
81 heard of another bit of brazen impu-
dence just like that. She told me about it
herself. He came up in the evening and
sat on the front steps with her.
" Got promoted to 81 400 today he said,
and then he deliberately pulled out piece
of paper with lot of figures on it.
Did little figuring on pad this after
noon.' he said The thing ought to go
through easy Listen: House rent, about
$50 or $40 month; servant, $15 a month;
gas and full
Mind you, he hadn't ever said a word to
her about getting married. But you ought
to see what a pretty home they've got now!
1.-The diffident young men are just as
matter-of-fact as the impudent ones, too, L
hear. You know little Mrs. Finally, up on
Columbia Heights, and what quiet bash
full man her husband is? l often wondered
how he ever mustered enough courage to
ask her, and you know they did go together
for three years before they We're married
She told about it not long ago. They
went car riding one Sunday afternoon, and
rode to the end of the 14th street line
Then they got off and walked. He showed
her the house where they now live. She
admired it.
Tn buying it, he said. Got it all fur
nished, too
1T was the very first she knew of It, and
of course she had to ask him if he meditat-
ed starting a boarding house. That made
1t comparatively easy for him. although
she said that she thought he'd have
stroke even then. before he got it out.
well. they all appear to be as happy as
can be- but l do think that I'd like to have
Just a teeny bit more of sentiment in case
of that kind. l don't think there's half
| enough sentiment in the world, as 1t Is