The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-05-26
Her Criticism

barrow. Now, that scene where the
girl makes the man propose is awfully
clever"
mo nice girl" said Miss Converse
oracularly, would ever lead man to
propose
.'This is your third season, isn't it?''
asked barrow
'It is not polite to remind me that /
am growing to be a wallf1ower," child
ed the girl.
"You are not" declared Darrow
promptly. IF l wanted to be slangy,
could say that you were daisy"
''There are times,' said Miss Con
verse, when even slang is excusable. y
''Then consider it saiu, he answer
ed, with a bow. 'But to get on. You
have been out three seasons, and you
say woman never leads a man to pro
pose"
II said no nice woman" corrected
Miss Converse.
"How about Barton and Nellie
Rice?' he urged.
'She didn't defended Miss Con
verse. ''She told me all about it. He
said he wished he had wife to make
him as comfortable as Mrs. Rice made
Nell's father"
"And then what? exulted barrow.
''She merely said he never would get
married until he had courage to ask for
what he wanted" completed Miss Con
verse.
"Considering that he'd been dragging
about after her ever since she came
home from school, l guess she could
imagine whom he would ask for,
couldn't she" crowed barrow.
81 don't call that urging" protested
Miss Converse.
''She was doing the best she could
proclaimed barrow ''She frightened
him into proposing"
II don't see how you make that out "
eff he didn't ask her then, he was
afraid she would think he was a cow
ard
"Any man who has not the courage to
propose does not deserve to be mar
ried," she asserted.
That's not fairv he cried. 81 know
lots Of good fellows who simply can't
think what to say
Zine fellows they must be-" she
laughed. Fancy a man, big, strong
man, being afraid of a weak woman"
''Say," he began confidently, ''do you
KNOW that when man loves a girl she
looks bigger than the side of a house
sometimes"
II hope nobody loves me, then," she
said sharply. "a man cannot love a
woman when he applies such smile
to her.
That's all you know about it." he de-
clared sagely.
amy man can propose, and propose
nicely, if he really wants a girl" she
insisted
Il couldn't" he said discouragedly
mot even with the aid of a Ready
Letter Writer and Guide to Court
ship"
Nonsense" she dissented. "I'm sure
you could make pretty speech. Try
it."
II can't think Of q thing" he COM
planned after moments silence.
won't you give a fellow a start?"
"How is this?" she asked. '''My dear
Miss Smith y
Converse he corrected
II said Smith, she insisted.
1T don't sound natural with Smith,
he complained. make it My dear Miss
Converse What's next?'
"You only wanted a start" she in
sisted.
That's only the address," he plead
ed. "Give fellow a bigger boost than
that
WELL she began, you might say,
Surely you cannot fail to have no.
ticed.' Now go aheadv'
From the beginning?" he asked
Certainly, go ahead" she said impa-
tiently
"'NIy dear Miss Converse he began
rapidly, surely you cannot have failed
to have noticed that I love you and
want you for my wife How's that?"
TOO abrupt" she complained.
Lets hear you do BETTER he ieered
Surely you cannot have failed to
notice that you have inspired in me a
feeling beside which all other senti-
ments fade into nothingness
"Gee! 1 wish I could do it that
way" interjected barrow admiringly.
"'For a long time but one hope has
filed my mind-the hope that one day
1 might be SO fortunate as to inspire
similar feeling within your breast.
feel that. 1 cannot wait longer for the
answer to question which will either
fill the whole world with a perfect
radiance or plunge me into the deepest
despair. love you. Will you not say
that l may hope some day to lead to
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