The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-16
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.ora Of the things" said Elsie the other
in discussing MARI ages with Doro-
D,v of the New Orleans Picayune,
M woman ever fails to resent is
SUGGESTION that she had anything
3baraver to do with marrying her hus-
and she may be as meek and humble
.be traditional worm, but let anybody
that she did the proposing and she
e,rne on you with a swapping denial. So
IAN understood is this feminine idiocyn~
..asv that we have tacitly accepted po-
rte if ridiculous theory, that it is only by
,,r Of the most persistent persuasion that
u-o,ran is ever induced to forsake the
.,,+a If single blessedness. We even car
-, the idea so far that WEI say girl
carried TO man, and that she is
lad TO the altar, as if she was more Or
,sss Of a victim, instead of being pleased
% death at her good luck in catching the
man she has been out for"
..Wen." said the practical woman, in
osrorcb as a woman is always about
,,.toe as much married as a man is, and
,bat matrimony makes or mars her hap
Illness so much more than it does his, the
| old custom that makes her merely mega
| rive in the matter isn't fair, anyhow. We
wouldn't sit down and wait on the
| chance of any other good thing being
brought to our door and offered to US. We
would go out and hunt for it,
81 don't know but what we do put In
| tbe woman in the tulle hat Sometimes
mink that the reason we deny the
charge of doing the proposing so bitterly
| is because we have a bad conscience in
the matter Look about yoU.. Don't you
/ know dozens of men, whom you are NOR
allv certain we're proposed to- instead of
doing the proposing? OF course, the wo-
man didn't go to them and say, My
adored Algernon, love you. Let me ask
YOUR mother for this precious hand!
Give me the privilege of seeing that your
socks are darned, and your buttons are
on and of protecting you from over
done meat and under-done bread and the
other vicissitudes and hardships of a
single life. Oh no. Any such hat-footed
propositions as that would scare man
into blue fits, and she knows better. She
gently insinuates the idea into his own
consciousness until he believes 1t origin
ated with him, and he spends the balance
of his days congratulate ting himself upon
his superior astutenqss in selecting that
particular woman from out all the
millions of her sex. And in reality he
never had anything to do with it, and
never would have noticed her If she
hadn't called his attention TO herself.
Then take the bashful man. If left to
do the love-mAking and proposing would
he ever reach the altar? Not in thou
sand years! II Is astonishing, too, hows
many really d esirable men suffer from this
affliction. and, for my part, l am never
more pleased with the determination and
enterprise of my sex than when see some
woman secure a bashful man for her hus-
band I've watched the process a hum
bred times, and it always ends the same
way. II thu. shy man leaves home while
he is young he is dead sure to marry
either his llndlady's daughter or a girl
who boards in the house. If he stays at
home the girl who is the jolly-good-fellow
gets him. lie begins by treating her like
a boy. She is chummy and easy to get
acquainted with, and by and by he finds
she is the best of good company. There's
no nonsense about their conversation.
Good heaven $, 1 should say not! She
knows her business To drag in senti-
ment would be to frighten him away just
as surely as a shy fish would slip away
from the to'3alluringly displayed bait.
After while he has to go away, or she
has. to leave, and there must come an end
to the pleas ant comradeship She sheds
few tears. He has never had woman
weep with orrow at parting from him be-
fore, and he goes off his head bit. When
he comes to- again he finds himself engag-
ed, and he never knows to his dying day
how it hapl pened."
Il used o read put In the practical
woman, 'iII Thackeray, where he says
that any VIC men, without an actual hump,
n -
to wonder how she did It, Now l know.
She makes linn believe she is in love with
him. That overthrows all the old theo-
ries, doesn't it? But it Is the straight
truth. If there ever was a time when
men were ia scinated by the scornful beau
ties who flo uted them, that time is far,
far away irl the past. 1t doesn't work
now. Why, have seen a woman throw
herself at a mans head in a way that you
would have thought would have disguised
him. but it didn't. He couldn't see any
thing in it, but the superior judgment of
woman who knew good thing when
She saw it. 1 honestly believe that nine
tenth of the men who get married are at
tfacted by that thing, first: Here he
WILL say, is a girl who has sense enough
70 admire me, and see the points of my
Jokes, and who asks my advice on every
subject. That of itself shows her to be
intelligence Then, poor dear, she's in
love with me. She can't help that, of
course, and I'm sure don't We nder at 1t, ,
ana forthwith her marries her as a reward
Tor her GOOD taste. In novels, you know,
wouldn't happen that way The man
would break his heart for s. Ome woman
VINO turned up her nose a. him. and
wouldn't have him at any JJrice, but in
real life things are much more sensibly ar
ranged, and my observation lis that man
SETS a woman who doesn't admire him
Gown as chump and never wastes a Sec
onI thought upon her. docs a woman
VINO lets a man see she CARES for him pro-
pose !. asked the practio al woman, and
t4e hrugged her shoulde IS as she answer
'' As You choosei OF course, it takes
"'IN or inexperience-the old stager or
Hebutante-to play th Is game, but its a
'4iee-times winner"
The girl had a new piano. She was a
musical girl, and It V as as nice a piano
as could be found. w hen she had it prop
10y set up and ready for use, says the