The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-30
ABOUT PROPOSALS.
The Modern Girl Considers Them
Distinctly Bnd Form.

The old-time girls chief object in life
was to have as many scalps as she could
secure. to hang to her belt. A summer
without chatelaine of scalps was duh
summer to the girl who almond mealed
her hands TO keep them white and wore
veil to ward eff sunburn. Proposals were
as the breath CT life TO her. She didn't
object to them in the winter, but in sum
mer she expected, nay, almost exacted
them.
4 writer in the baltimore Sum gives
some instances CT the behavior of the
girl of today who would be ashamed
to own that she had received an offer of
marriage, because if she had been sincere
she could have prevented it, How unlike
the pious old lady who sits in the front
pew at Emmanuels, whose trunk is full
of love letters in different handwritings,
that she lets her grandchildren read wet
afternoons, and of that other old saint
in her duchess lace and black satin, who,
when we asked her if it was true that she
had had eighty-seven offers, flushed with
resentment and informed us it was ninety
nine"
A young woman who had never con-
sidered the gift and the reception of va
rious boxes of candy 4 tie between herself
and any light-kearted friend" heard with
a cold chill that the present OF single
small box of guava jelly sent from Cuba
by a widower in the navy should be taken
with seriousness, and was she prepared
for what might follow? He might have
talked and talked" said his brother Of
hcer, with shake of the head, and
meant nothing-but jelly'-and my friend
saw herself taking tea with his first wife's
Gle nd he
ward caresses.
In their anxiety TO prevent misunder-
standings on the subject of matrimony
friends even throw themselves in the
breach and interpret Signs or give hints
young lady in Lee this summer had al
lowed her interest in q young man to as
sumo the shape OF going 10 walk with
him and hearing him repeat his poems.
Not she averred that she had any inten-
tions for the present, but he was good
young man and she thought 1t would be
prudent to lay him up against rainy day.
The young man was nicknamed Rusty,
not because he was dull, but because he
was bright-a sort of lucus non lucendo-
and this witticism was his friends oppor-
tunity. They were playing game in which
each person was compared to a stone,
metal. an animal, as the case might be,
and the audience asked in what the re-
ance's turn came, and she was described as
triple silver plate And WHY Because
said her host sollcitous to give the poor
girl a hint-'because you will never get
rusty.
Now, my young lady came from the
part of the country where two men dress
for the part Of bridegroom the day of the
wedding and the one IS taken and the 9TH
er left. where the husband shows his num-
Der of discardals as warrior shows his
scars. and every eourtship is a record OF
hairbreadth escapes and threats on the
lady's Part that II he has individual tastes
about the way to cook corn bread they had
better part. You can fancy, then, her dis
gust when she heard under what regime
she would henceforth be expected to live
if she kept up with the style.
The writer does not think that the new
type OF girl is not living the higher life,
but she is glad that she lived in an era
when she did not have to carry her own
croquet halls and mallets, and she is even
a bit proud of the fact that she has "a
nice lot Of stick pins tucked away the
names Of whose donors she never could
recall"