The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-14
HOW SOME MEN PROPOSE.
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u really wouldn't care to have him
fall to his knees. and 'exclaim in d
tone OF passionate entreaty,' Give me
but a single ray of hope,' l think that
would be absurd beyond all things
am sure / should feel like laughing in
a young mans face if he did any OF
these ridiculous things. Yet / think
even the old-fashioned, high-faiutin',
my-life- would be- "a blank-without- you
way of proposing mentioned in Miss
Austens bread and treacle stories
would be better than the dreadfully
slangy. matter-of-fact way young men
have OF proposing nowadays. according
TO what a 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
walking on + street together. She
bowed TO a young man she knew.
'Awfully nice looking. isn't hep she
asked Jack who is now her husband.
Fair looking duck said Jack. But
who's I-double-tee, 1t, anyhow? Don't
l cut in at all?'
she really didn't know what he
meant.
Well went on Jack. you're always
telling me what a good-looker that
geezer is. Now, is he the whole thing
and am l an ''also ram or do l win?
l just pass il up TO you. you know.
she didn't understand him this time,
either. and l don't wonder.
You're side-stepping and don't want
to understand went on Jack. All
right Can you fix il 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 pro-
posed TO in that dreadful way.
You know my married cousin up on
the Hill? Well. Jim just worked 4
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 as u
lark
We'll. I'm off in a few days he
said to her. Nothing in the govern
ment 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, l am she said.
Say, he said then, if l 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 beau
tiful a city as Washington she asked
him. Surely, you don't expect to find
a prettier place to live in?
well. of course. this gave him a
s.fsl inc
in Washington on her account, but
that as long as she didn't seem to care,
etc. etc.
Another girl told me that the sheer
impudence with which her husband
proposed to her was simply captivat-
ing. II 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 Wash
ington. spring. isn't it? We won't be d
thing but married when the lilacs show
up next spring, will we?'
Did you ever hear of such assur-
ance?
Il heard of another bit of brazen i'm
pudence 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 s1.4OO today he
said, and then he deliberately pulled
out a piece of paper with lot of fig
ures on it.
g Did a little figuring on pad this
afternoon he said. The thing ought
to go through easy. Listen: House
rent, about sS5 or $40 a month; servant,
SIS a month; gas and fuel
Mind you. he hadn't ever said a
word to her about getting married. But
you ought to see what pretty home
they've got now,
The diffident young men are just as
natter-of-fact as the impudent ones,
100. 1 hear. You know little Mrs.
Fipally, up on Columbia Heights, and
what a quiet, baShful man her husband
s? l often wondered how he ever mus
-ered enough courage to ask her, and
you know they did go together for
.hree years before they were married.
She told me about it not long ago.
They went car riding one Sunday after
noon. and rode to the end of the Four
eenth street line. Then they got Oft
ana walked. He showed her the house
where they now live. She admired it.
I'm buying it, he said. Got it all
too.
1T was the very first she knew of it.
md of course she had to ask him if he
neditated starting a boarding house.
That made it comparatively easy for
him. although she said that she thought
led have a stroke, even then, before ne
got ii out.
We'll. they all appear to be as happy
Is can be, but 1 do think that I'd like
o have just a teeny bit more OF sentl-
nent in case CT that kind l don't
hink there's half enough sentiment in
he world, as it is
Verdict As Rendered.