The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-23

any of these idiotic manifestations. the
kind portrayed i'm the novels, had oc-
cured at the proposing time. Herewith
is given the result Of these investiga-
lions, presented in numbered instances:
| Case No. 1.-Young man mead clerk in
hardware store, had been going with
girl for year and a half Took walk
with her one Sunday afternoon
Cert" he said to her. suddenly. after
they'd been looking at some marked
down rugs in a furniture store. the old
man gave me a boost to $35 week
| last night Guess we ought to be able
to scrabble along on that, hadn't we?"
why" replied Cert quite offhand-
there are lots of folk living here In
Kansas City. and living comfortably.
on a good deal less than $50 a week, and
! if"
whereupon the date was Immediately
| set.
Case No 2-Young man, junior clerk
I'm real estate business. had been going
with her for about eight months. There
were two or three others in the field
against him. but he was game to take
| a gamblers chance. They were at a
play one night, and between the first
and second acts he leaned over and SAID
to her:
Annie. where do 1 stand with you,
anyhow"
Now. pul-Iease don't get sentiment
al she replied. archly.
But" he insisted. I'm getting pref
ty anxious to find out, Annie. don't
know whether I'm aces or an also ran
| You know where you stand with me,
all right don't you? Well, wouldn't II
be only the fair thing for you TO put
me wise to where / stand with youY
"Oh, don't know that you have any
occasion to worry she replied, and
that. OF course, was good enough Tor
him. The date was arranged not long
after.
Case No. 3-Young man, stenograph-
er in ?. law office, had been calling upon
her about three times week, taking
her out with considerable regularity,
and so on. for a period covering about
| a year He was sitting on the front
steps with ler one evening, when she
said to him:
Guess who ran away and got mar
ried last week? Clara Githizzy"
That SOP said he. "Say, Ethel now
good on the run are YOU?
That started something that ter
minated successfully, and the young
couple didn't have to run away, either
Case No. 4.-Young lawyer, more or
less briehess. had been quite a frequent
caller at the home of a wealthy girl Tor
| more than two years. Good LOOKING
young fellow, and the girl was hand-
some too. in addition to having the
coin They were part of a chaperoned
box party at play one night. The play
depicted q family suddenly plunged
| from wealth to comparative poverty
without desiring to appear mean or
cruel" he said to her, with the great
est outspokenness. 81 wish something
of that kind would happen to you.
What a very friendly wish, she eX-
CHI l.
though. of course she understood MN
very well.
because. then. my dear he quickly
! answered. 81 wouldn't feel like Such an
internal muff if 1 asked you TO snare
what L have with me-
cob. is that alp" she said, gazing
very sweetly into his eyes, Wei, you
know very well, Jack, that L shouiu
never consider you muff, as you say
so horribly, under any circumstances,
no matter what you did; and 1t is mean
of Won to reproach me for not being
poor. I can't help it, can 1 ?"
This looked good enough TO the young
LAWYER and il was. They decided upon
the time before the end of that week
Case No. 5.-Young man, another
LAWYER, had been calling and sendlng
Eher flowers and taking her out pretty
often for something less than year
ride when they passed a tidy apartment
! house I'm course of construction and al
most completed.
"Saw the plans of those flats few
DAYS ago" he said, nonchalantly. They
are daisies-best arranged 1 ever saw.
Burlap walls and all that Mighty
cheap. at that-Only $40 per for the
best of EN-"
.Burlap walls. you say?" she re-
marked, dreamily. Il just love ouflap
4 walls in fats; don't YOU"
Sure said he. Want to get off
at the next corner and come back and
take a look at these fiats?"
II don't mind" said she.
So they got off the car at the next
corner and went through the fats. and
while they were standing in one of the
cunnin' dining rooms he walked right
over to hen put his arm around her
waist. and said to her:
Hun, how about us taking one OF
these flats? You know row badly /
want you
She didn't take his arm away. 1t
was all right. They fixed upon day
then and there.
Case No. 6.-Gay bachelor Of SO.
Rather confirmed IN it, has been capti-
waited by the good breeding, high char
acter and strong sense, as well as
beauty. OI HIS lyplSL. AlduC up hio illAiN1
that he'd like to marry her. Had 1t
dODed out that she liked him fairly
well. but wasn't very certain about her
having him, in spite of his pretty mod
crate looks and considerable business
prosperity. One day he touched the
electric button that summoned her into
his private office for dictation. She
appeared promptly notebook in hand.
Ell didn't call you for a dictation
today. Miss Hitkeys," he said to her,
rising from his seat and bowling to her
most deferentially as he placed chair
for her. 81 want to ask you if you'll
marry me?"
She appeared overwhelmed, naturally
enough. but she didn't say anything
about Il being 80 sudden" She re-
spected the man and more than liked
him. She said yes" before leaving
the private office, and they're one Of the
happiest pairs IN New York.
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