The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-21
WOMAN'S WORLD

would be to come right out with the
question, and take the chances on his
being too frightened to refuse.
Another man who causes woman
many heart aches and who ought to
be dealt with for his good and hers
on the leap year platform, is the OBJ
fuse man, the dear laundering blind
as-a-bat man who let's a woman go on
loving him, and embroidering him slip
pers, and agreeing with him in every
thing he says, year after year, with
out once perceiving that there is any
thing serious in her attentions. There
is no way to wake up these Rip Van
Wrinkles except by firing off red hot
proposal right under their noses, and.
making them see what a good thing
they were about to miss in missing the
patient Carrie, or Jane, or Maria, who
asks nothing else in life but the privi-
lege of waiting on them hand and foot.
Never having thought of Carrie. or
Jane, or Maria, as anything but a sis
ter, or a piece of household furniture
the man will be astonished at first,
and the chances are that he will ex-
claim, This is so sudden" but let not
the ardent suitoress be DISCOURAGED.
The more he thinks of the idea, the
more the attractions grow upon him
and in the end he will joyfully let her
escort him to the altar.
In asking a business man to go into
partnership with her, women should
pursue business tactics. She might
begin by asking for a. thirty days
option on his heart and hand. This
granted, it will then be up to her to
show how she can strengthen the firm
by the care that she would take of
him, and the comforts by which she
would surround him in a happy little
hOT11n She - L 81.
risks he runs from the deadly machi-
nations of landladies, the losses he
sustains from the differing of laun-
dresses and bell boys, and if she is
sufficiently a jollier to make him be-
lieve that two can live cheaper than
one her suit will be successful. This
kind of courtship will not appeal to
the romantic woman who wants to
quote poetry, and write fool love let
ters, but the business man is SO emil
nently desirable as a husband that it
is a case of the result being worth the
means.
1t is difficult to imagine It ever be-
ing necessary for a woman to propose
to widower, for the widower is gem
orally loaded and primed with offers
of marriage that he goes popping at
every woman in sight, but in the rare
instances in which he seems inclined
to cling to single blessedness, a little
stage play may be effective. A bright,
CHEEKY fire with a pretty and sympa-
thetic woman across the hearth stone
from him, a well spread table set just
for two-what man could be insensibe
to these insidious leads towards do
mesticity, or could refuse the woman
who suggested that this charming
scene be encored for life run.
In case the man says no; in case he
tells a girl that he will be brother to
her and advises her to go off and
marry some nobler and fairer man
than he, her cue will be to weep
Many women marry men because they
are sorry for them. Millions of men
marry women because they haven't
the nerve to see them cry. Generally
speaking, no man can see a woman
weep for him unmoved. 1t shows so
much good taste and sense, and sensi-
bility in her that it goes to his heart
He never blames her, or thinks her
silly. Poor little thing how could she
man may be shocked at the idea of a
woman proposing to another man, he
will find extenuating circumstances
for her popping the question if he
himself is the object of her devotion.
One thing, however, the leap year
woman must bear in mind She must
play fair. Under no possible circum-
stances should she propose marriage
to man unless she can take care of
him in the same style in which his
father has been accustomed to support
him. Dorothy Dix.