The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-08
40 MEN HAVE PROPOSED TO HER


and 20 heroic over II all taat | really
loved to have them DO it, and | felt
! like tragedy queen when ! said No
IN as near an appfoch 20 their man
ncr rs ! could. The college boy way
oi proposing is the Glib on way
After HAT hRl an experience
with foreign man, she continued, a
lirtle saGly, ANA they aren't nearly
as nice as AmaricRns An Italian
wanted me to marry him while We
were at Florence First he spoke u
mother, and hen he spoke 20 ME
Int neither If us believed him, be-
en he talked SO much about It. tto
was delieateiy sentimental, but be
seemed effeminate after my nice col
lege boys, ard | sat down and wrote
them each long letter the night af'
ter had refused him MY Italian
eXemplifed The snappy' school OF pro-
p0sals. In France We stayed all sum
mer in the American Partisan colony,
and two younG men asked me to be
their wife, | hated that. One was a
naval officer. and ne swore he'd com
nit suicide and took on dreadtully
The other was an aristecrat, and he
took his cogne in gloomy blue
blooded silence. but afterward had
the impudence TO so and complain 10
t the ambassador and ask him to make
me change my mind. Both Of these
inen proposed marriage in an excitef
raapsodical manner, bur Nth an ua
DERIVING assurance Of success that
was moft dfsthstsGui Co me They seem
ca sure that they were going 70 be
accepted, and no woman likes that in
a man. II is prosumntuous.
The English are different and
nicer" said the conqueror Of forty
good men and true They make up
their minds to marry you, and moth
ing you can say or do can prevent
them from putting their request into
words. And, once started, they carry
il through to tine bitter and its
much more convincing hear {
stolid, stammering young British
{
than Il Is to listen to the high flown
poetry with which an Italian viii
make the same statement. The Eng
lish style is bullheaded, but It is
forceful When | left Liverpool TO
sail for home my total OF proposals.
had been swelled to twelve in all
Ind would have felt conscience suicl1,
n about 1t II it hadn't been for the
sact that | had honestly tried TO nip
every threatened ayowal in the bud
It's easy to refuse an Englishman
though He's gentleman and he Is
game. He takes his medicine with a
stiff upper lip, and he never com
plains or whines as a continental does.
In way. that makes i harder to say
No. because it hurts So
Ny FIRST real American proposal DC
CURED at time during my first sea
con out, ana I'll tell It in detail. be
cause Il was a model Of its kind. Il
was at large party with a man who
had been attentive 10 me for some
months. | liked him very much, and
| didn't want him to propose to ne
but in weak moment | promised to
sit out several dances with him, and
he took advantage Of his opportunity
He was as quiet as a mouse when he
first found nook and settled our
selves IN il. talked as fast as |
could aud tried to make him do the
same, but he was not 10 be denied.
He cleared the decks for action by
firmly telling me he was not in the
mood Tor talking fooliHhncss. Then
he squared his oLiu and tightened
his mouth until Il vas just a level
across his face, and told me without
preface that he liked me better than
any other person in the world. I
thanked him without any coquetry,
and said that / was fond of him and
that We had had some good times 10.
gether hat winter
"Bu' ? moan lot moro than that.
be said. Z know that / simply cannot
get on without you, and want you
70 be my wife, / don't want 20 hold
you up right here and now and make
,ou say Yes, because IA rather
never -co you again than have any
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