Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1906-12-14
THE BANNER NAN"
Tells You How To Propose

Tells You How To Propose
Since I have been writing the At.
lanta Exposition articles. letters by the
score have accumulated upon my desly.
(which by the way, is nothing but an
old fashioned candle-stand} az king all
kinds of qaes ions and propounding all
kinds Of enigmas and riddles. aul
afraid some of my correspondents think
am not very familiar with etiquette, or
I would have answered their inquiries
sooner, but am. I know more about
etiquette than any man in this and ad
joining counties, except the editor of Iii
Times: and be knows too much about it.
For Instance, he is SO polite and accom-
inodatng that he will hlrt and make love
TO fellows t',plumb honey" in his
absence Dog gone ny buttons, ifthere
isn't such a thing as being too polite,
especially to another mans girl. Selahi
The word "selah" is found in dictionary
edited BY my old pard Judge Holbrook
The following letter IS genuine. I
didn't make it as some of my enemies
would have you believe. have every
reason to believe, too, that the young
man is really DESTROYS Of knowing how to
do the most ticklish ofail ticklish things
popping the question. Hundreds and
thousands of young men are 10 agonies
aoday on this subject. aud what little ID
formation | possess shall be theirs for
she asking. Step up men and got your
knowledge.
3. T. G. johnson City, Tenn.I am
desperately in love with "a young lady.
md reasons 10 believe she love me. |
want to pop the question, but am very
hashful and do not know how TO go
about it. Please help me out.
This is subject don't knoy much
about. will not say that never did
such thing, but the fact that there is
no female abiding in my kraal to sew on
my gallus buttons, stop the pigs or gath
sr my narrow dock green's in the soft
April sunshine, is convincing evidence
that l never made anything like a cy
elenic success atthe popping business.
Popping the question is tickiish
business-lt tickles the girl to death if
she is 'stuck" on you.
Go aboutit ina caln dignifed manner
Don't hint about it two or three hours.
but break the ice without much cere-
mony. The services don't even need to
be opened with singing Don't stutter
like man making few closing remarks
at his own execution. Any girl worth
having. likes brave, fearless men. 1t is
natural for them to kinder despisa men
who act like babies Some bashfnl lads
resort TO the mails i'll proposing That
may beat no proposal al all, but it beats
it dad burn little. Northing but
sFigh water should ever cause you to do
anything Of that kind. You miss all the
hot slobbers and hoaey-dew SO dear to
sYerycu5an mpatllzer's heart.
The best times to propose is the very
hast Of May or fret Of Jupe, when the
reeee and tadpoles are in blossom. Eat
spafingly of locust aud Wild honey, and
avoid 'tater ingins" as you would gar
ter snake. Keep yonr hook joints well
lubrleat With carbohe acld, and grease
sou apipal monument every eveniug
with 1.-TWO pufts OF kerosene and three
parts OF tree turpent;ne Don't wear hip
hreeehes aud cotton sacks. Neither W ear
hay seed in your hair. Garry no nitro
gllcerine your hap pocket for at time
when you least expect it, the stopper
might blow ont aud lsape a scent OF one
hundred proof upon the desert air. Eat
TO oniona OF polekitten tenecn for sew
stal days. Choose the gloaming f3r this
sacred work. The cleaning is that tim
which elapses between the setting Of the
s3n and rising of .Audromedia. You
k1o~ who Andromedia is / suppose
Take tbegiri by the hand, but don't
giay with her ears. You eight galieeza /
l'ef hand Just little BIT, and if she
squeezes back slet not y4lar heart be
troubie," neither lef ycur heart do bust
f,fss in your lsryngitis. The exaet words /
% say depends apau lineage. light. com
p1ezlon, color eyes, shape Of nose and /
bow Knocked Saeed and pigeon toed the
girl is. IF she is Fomantic' aud reads pa
per covered novels by moonlight. you
.higFd WorlS OF semeibiua about sailing
ss'gatieF ever hfe's silyery sea IN a dug
tsssss sis4.a-1 "a slsiEt for a all but il she