The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-06-29
THE SUNDAY NIGHT BEAU,
A Proposal Made on the Sabbath Dav is not
a Binding Contract.
Dorothy Dix In New Orleans Picayane.

A Brooklyn judge has just decided
tbst Sunday courrship is not valid,
and that proposal made on the Sab
bath day is not binding contract.
This is solas plexus blow at love-
making that knocks Cupid out of the
wedding rings, for the Sunday night
beau has ever put the prop and stay
Of the marriage institution, and with
him eliminated the majority Of girls
can see the spinster . retreat looming
up dark and forbidding on their hori-
zons.
Naturally, the calamity of this de-
cision will fall heavily upon mai
dens in the rural districts, where Sun
day is the one day set apart by custom
and convenience for sparkling, but it's
baneful effects will be felt through all
the rsmifcations of society, from
Newport to Bird Centre, for it is on
the holy Sabbath day the heart of
the billionaire no less than the bump.
kin turns to thoughts Of matrimony.
No statistics are obtainable upon
the subject, but if married men would
only own up, We should 6nd that it
mas on Sunday that il first occurred
to them that they were lone, lorn
bachelors, and that they had it on
Biblical authority that it is not good
for man to be alone. At any rate,
women will besr cheerful and vera
cious testimony that nine.tenths OF
all the proposals ere made on Sunday.
Nor is this hard to explain. Man has
never been able to distinguish between
religion and love. The workings Of
grace in him he has always mistaken
for the huttering Of his heart. When
he is pious he wants to propose, and
when be is uplifted by the Sabbath
calm and peace he feels that he can
love his neighbor as himself-es-
peeially If chs is young end pretty
and he forthwith asks her to marry
him.
OMoreover, there ie in Sunday even
ings certain homesick quality that
every man has felt, but which makes
club cooking suddenly turn to dust
and in his mouth, and mems society,
no matter how brilliant, pail upon
him, and that sends him forth in
search of some nice, quiet, sympa-
thetio girl, to whom he can explain
his beautiful emotions, and who, in
the process Of time, he finds himself
escorting to the altar.
Women are perfectly aware Of this.
They know that Sunday ia the psyco-
logical moment when man will pro-
pose if he is going to propose at all,
and 80 when o man who has been cas-
ually calling upon o girl any old week
night moves up and begins to make
Sunday night dates, she realizes that
it ia time for her to decide whether
she will be o sister to him or be mar
ried in church or at home under q
floral horseshoe.
OF course men call upon other
nights, than Sunday, and girls joy
fully roSsive their visits, FOR just as
one swallow does not make sprips,
so one swallow.tail lowering in her
vicinity doesn't make girl the belle
she desires 30 be. She doesn't enjoy,
the less, the attentions from men who
are without Intentions, hut she knows
them for whet they are. They may,
or may not, mean business, but the
Sunday night beau 10 . sure thing.
Fcrtunasely, men are not oognisant
Of this ensalt .connsction between She
days ofisha week and dtheir aentiments.e
Indeed, they may even 60 as Far 40 to
deny that such o connection exiaks5aE7
oil, bat women who know . lot about
men shat men dams know about them.
selves understand it. Any fairly
popular girl can make out calendar
Of her beaux, from The aights that
they come s-y:ss;:sasSS i s. aud toll you,
with almost exact certainty what they
will do. And there you are, SO Mr..
Henry James says, whom he presents.
the tinexplainable. ,s l.S..3
For instance, the Monday night,
beauis almost invariably the family
friend. He is somebody you went Co
dancing school with, and made mud
pies with. and he calls you Mamie,
OF Sadie, and oritieises the way you
do your hair, and wonders why yonl
let shat young fool Snigsby hang
around yon. He comes 20 see yon for
varss1s es - 4 1,e e7 habit;
besauss he was tired and wanted soma.
body to talk with; besauss he was