The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-09-14
A GIRLS REASON
ABLE GRIEVANCE

1--WE just been reading the most exas-
perating bit of literature In so-cai!ed
ladies' magazine. 1t tells girls how they
ought to receive a proposal of marriage
1t begins by saying the old fashioned
way of our grandmothers-to blush
sweetly, look down and murmur. On
but this is so sudden'-has quite gone out,
because msr won't be fooled any longer
by it. Men have found out, says the
authority on proposals, that their offer
is really never sudden. that the woman
in nine cases out Of ten has been ex.
pecting 1t and waiting for it, expecting Il
even before the man himself had made
up his mind. and they refuse TO take
down that old chestnut any more,
We'll. tine wonder Is they were fooled
by it as long as they were. 1t really
lasted good while But then men were
not formerly so scarce and shy as they
are now. %. y .
'"rhe authority on proposals says the
really up to date way of accepting man
If you truly care for him. that ISL
to blush as innocently as your grand
mother did and look down Just as she
did, but say instead right out. straig h.-
forward. honest and manlyhke. though
in very gentle, womanly way, Yes,
dear Jack, II you think 1. can make you
.s..i1'he authority informs us the new
fashion is to be quite honest that 1t is
more taking with the man and there
fore even the good old sentence. Ask
q man knows the girl nowadays VIII
probably have him anyhow If she wants
him. Men know entirely too much in
these modern times, / think. and they
have got concefted about girls.
The proposal expert must be woman
who has had dozens of offers OF mar
nAge. judging from the glib way IN
which she tells girls how to dispose of
their suitors. She charges us even VIII IN
we refuse a man to do it gently and
kindly. because. the highest honor. from
his standpoint. man can besfow on
woman Is to ask her to be his wife. Then.
too men arc not plentiful any more, ana
1t might be that when she finds she can
get nobody else young woman Will be
willing to fall back on the sliitur she
once discarded. A girl may no longer
laugh to scorn any sort of a man, 1t
seems, 1t isn't safe.
Wand there is the point. With all her
store of knowledge there is one thing
the matrimonial expert leaves out, aud
that 10 exactly the most important 81
all. 1t Is how to get a proposal, A girl
will know fast enough out of her own
head what to answer when she gets the
offer The question she wants to see an
swsed bv the ladies magazines is how
to get the offer in the first place. But
it. every on. Now. I'd like to know
what good their fine advice about how
to refuse or accept man can do us
when the essential the man himself. Is
left out -, chi. ,o,,orn ,i,t,o no,;s,owr
with only one single man in it. Its hated
rival. Wrentown. has two; therefore
Wrentown sneers at Dovetown and calls
it me woman's Eden-what for goodness
knows, Since the original Eden had as
many men as women in It. | suppose
there were as many boys As girls In
Duvetown in the first place. hut as soon
as they got old enough the boys got
away. They went to the West. to the
wars, to the large cities. leaving us girls
without any occupation. The one man left
no is turned loose among five girls. four
old maids and three widows. and he
ought to be labeled Last Chance
''if the ladies who write for the Yo-
mems magazines and who know so much
about everything wish to do their sex
q real good, substantial and lasting. let
them stop giving so many directions on
how to accept or reject a proposal, and
tell us girls how to get proposal. any
sort Of one at all. Doilie.