The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-02-14


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London Strand.
HOW MEN PROPOSE.
A woman complains that, consider
ing men have had the proposing to do
since the world began, they do it very
badly. She says that thy balk at the
critical moment. They bungle the
situation. They outrage the artistic
proprieties. They sit down on the
halo of romance that a woman has
woven about the affair. She has dream
ed of being wooed in beautiful, poetic
language, and when he shoves !. COM
monplace question at her in any odd
way it skaters the ideals of lifetime.
One of the uncoEfessed grievances that
every married woman has against her
husband is the way he proposed to her.
She was probably glad enough to get
him on any terms, but there is diff
ference between having the thing you
want rendered you on silver salver
and being slugged with it. Later on
you may be very grateful for the gift
after you get over your bruises.
Women crowd the theatre to see the
counterfeit of the romance they miss
ed, yet how poorly even an actor gen
orally does it. Off the stage each man
has bis own individual system of love.
making, and reaches the critical point
of proposing by his own route.
One Of the most popular is by way
of the confessional. When man be-
gins to get sentimental he yearns to
tell girl all about his past life. He
confesses his own sins to her and those
of his friends. Then be tells her that
she is the only person who ever really
understood his intense nature and that
he only needs her angel influence to
enable him to lead the higher life.
When he gets that far the finish is
in sight and it is time for a girl to
sheer off, unless she desires to try her
amateur hand at the drink cure.
The really bashful man always pro-
poses suddenly and when you least ex-
pect it. He doesn't waste word in
preliminary compliments, because he
has screwed his courage up to the
sticking point and he dare no. let
turn of it 60. There is a silence and
then he catches his breath and takes
the plunge as if he was jumping into a
sea of ice and didn't know and didn't
care whether he ever came up again
or not.
A disappointing lover, but an emf
ncn,y satisfactory husband, is the bust,
ness type. You have been good friends
and he has confided to you that he is
getting on in the grocery trade and
last months sales were double those OF
the month before. Then one Sunday
afternoon he steers you round to some
new flats or cottages, and: after point
ing out that the plumbing is exposed
and they have stationary washtubs, he
says: "Mary, how would you like to
live here and be my little houskeeper!''
and if you have any sense you say
Eyes"
That night you may shed few tears
in the silence of your own room over
the beauty of the romance you have
missed, but you will never have to
weep any over bills you can't pay.
Then there is the condescending low
er-thc man who offers himself to you
in way that seems to say, 81 know
am a good thing that any woman
would be glad to get, but l have de-
cided to bestow the blessing on you; |
hope you properly appreciate your
luck in getting me-
This kind of man always expects
YOU to fall on his neck and thank him
kindly, and if you say "No' he goes
away and remarks that you were not
the kind of woman he had supposed
YOU we're and he was disappointed in
your taste and intelligence.
But the most aggravating OF all
suitors is the widower. He always
tells YOU that you remind him so o
his dear departed Sarah Ann, as il
there was one person, alive or dead, in
the whole universe you wouldn't rath
er resemble than your husbands frs,
wife. Sometimes he even tells you
that Sarah Ann picked you out as hel
successor, and, man-like, he can't sec
why the woman who has to feed hel
hungry heart on warmed-ove: affec
ton and rehashed kisses would rather
not be reminded of the fact that she
didn't sit at the first table.
A woman's yearning for romance a
such time may be fantastical, but
really, though, considering that every
man proposes once, and most numbe
of times, it does look like they nigh
learn to play better ball or else Civ.
women a show at the bat.-EdinbHrg'
| Scotsman.