Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-03-29
HOW SOME MEN PROPOSE.
On-Hnnd Way of Popping the aues
ton That Leaves something
10 BE Desired.

dress, Il really Woulan care 10 nav
him fall 10 his knees and 'eXciaim IL
tone of passionate entreaty; GIVE
me but a single ray of hope! thinI
that would be absurd beyond all things
am sure l should feel like laughing il
A Young mans face if he did any OF
these ridiculous things. Yet think
even the old-fashioned, high-falutin'
mv-lifelwould-b e-a-blank-without you
way of proposing mentioned in Miss
Austen's bread and treacle stories
would be better than the dreadfully
slangy, matter-of-faet 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 were
walking on F street together. She
bowed to a young man she knew.
lawfully nice looking, isn't he?' she
asked Jack, who is now her husband.
'Fair-looking duck said Jack.
But who's l double-tee, 1t, anyhow?
Don't cut in at alp
"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 / an also ran" or do
win? just pass it up TO you, you
know
"She didn't understand him this
time, either, and / don't wonder.
YOU'RE side-steppine az nj
want to understand went - h.
AN right Can you fix it for about
three months from date? That's
plain enough, isn't it,?
at wasn't, though.
Elk what? she asked him.
"'The day and the hour said Jack.
TO get doubled up, you know
"Well, of course he makes her a good
husband, but just fancy being proposed
to in that dreadful way!
"You know my married cousin up on
the Hill? Well, Jim just worked
bluff-that's the horrid way he puts il
when he proposed to her. He'd been
calling pretty regularly and one night
he showed up looking as clipper as
lark.
"Well, I'm off in a few days he said
to her, Nothing in the government
service, anyhow. Going 10 resign my
job and strike out for Oklahoma TO
grow up with the weeds
"She couldn't help but show that she
was sorry, of course.
I'm sorry you're going she said.
She's a remarkably serious-miudedg girl,
you know.
"'Nes, you are he said, satirically.
" Really, | 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
90, you know
why do you wish to leave so beau
.iful a city as Washington? she asked
him. Surely, you don't expect to find
)rettier place TO live in?'
We'll, Of course that gave him a
nance TO say that he was only staying
n Washington on her account, but that
S long as she didn't seem to care, etc.
tic.
Another girl told me that the sheer
mpudence with which her husband !
proposed TO herwas simply captivating.
{ was just about this time last spring,
md they were walking along Lafayette |
quare.
Trees and flowers look nice, don't |
heyY he said TO her, in an ofT-hand |
ort of way. Swell season in Washing |
on, spring, isn't il. We won't be a
hing but married when the lilacs show
Up next spring, will we?'
did you ever hear of such assur-
nee?
~ heard of another bit Of brazen i'm
,udence just like that. She told me
bout il herself. He came up in the
vening and sat on the front steps with
Ter.
Got promoted TO 81, 400 to-day he
aid, and then he deliberately pulled
ut "A piece Of paper with a lot Of fig
res on it.
did little figuring on a pad this
fternoon,' he said The thing ought
ogo through easy. Listen: Houserent.
bout S35 or sac a month; servant SIS
month; gas and fuel
Mind you, he hadn't ever said a word
o her about getting married But YOU
ught to see what a pretty home they
ave got now!
The diiiideut young men are Just as
natter Of fact as the independent ones.
DO, hear. You know little Mrs. Final
r, mp on Columbia Heights, and what
quiet, bashful man her husband is? !
often wondered how he ever mustered
nough courage TO ask her, and YOU !
now they did go together for three 4
ears before they were married. She
Did me about it not long ago. They
.ent car riding one Sunday afternoon
nd rode to the end of the Fourteenth
ireet line. Then they got off and
.alked. He showed her the house
here they now live. She admired il.