The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-12-30
ON wooING BENT

q WtuOWef IN WnO9eAss9re nave peen
left some pledges Of nfrectIon by his
late spouse. These children are nsim-
mediate: charge OF his mother, and aft
or returning from visit to them he
writes friend that he must have the
children with himself, that home with
out them Is not home at all, that a
housekeepeF ID not practical and that
he must solve the problem by taking
unto himself another wife.
He wants a good, sensible woman to
tnke care OF the house and train the
children In the way they should 60.
He has In mind woman he met In
Chicago. knew an hour or SO and. re-
members chiefly because he saw her
holding a baby as II she loved It So
confident Is he that this woman Will fa-
vor his suit that he warns his friend
to prepare to act as best. man. Then
ne writes the woman as follows;
ny Dear Miss Mnuriee-I am. as no
doubt you know. a widower with two
chiidrenl q boy and . girl, Ny vile has
have been With my. mother. Ny little giri
misses me sadly, as / do her. and II you
could mako up your mind to marry me
and make q homo for us would show
my gratitude by being as good q husband
rs know how. Hoping you Will con-
slider this faSorably. I am, my dear Miss
Maurice. sincerely yours,
Those who, know nothing about love
will not be surprised that Miss Mau-
rice responded In this wise:
Dear Mr. Hammorsmith-Tha hanhink you
vSry much for tho honor you have con-
ferred upon mo. must respectfully de-
cline your PROPOSAL Yery. truly yours.
MARY MAURICE.
That would have settled most men.
but tit only served as a spur to John
Hammersmith.
Meantime Miss Maurice takes occa-
sioni to drop llnep to her. chum,
Helen Wells In which she says things
that, could he have read thnm, would
have made the amorouB Hammersmith
fancy he had. steppedion Fedhoti stove
I'D. She said she was 'burning to
write him scorcher''-rathe warm
language for a, practical bachelor maid
but exercised almost superhuman
control. Still she had an opinion that
'tf he reads between the lines his eye
balls VIII wIther." And yet this young
woman ''held a baby as though che
loved itf''
We'll, Hammersmith evidently did
read between the lines, but without
the optical shriyelIng predicted, for he
again addressed his inamorata In hu,
mility and with profuse apology and
hinted that he was going on Journey
to Japan and would like to take his
children and a wife along.
This bait failed to secure even a nib
BILE. Indeed, It aroused all Miss Mau-
rice's sarcasm, and, being a school
teacher, she had plenty. She suggested
that he was acting in this matter of
selecting wife with less care than
he would In choosing horse, and she
said that her present employer. the
city," gave her holiday OF two
months each year, which was more
than she could hope to get from him.
Then John Hammersmlth wrote his
friend that he felt about foot high
and had a strong desire to kill Miss
Maurice. But he took another tack In
stead-wrote a renewal OF his proposal
and wastrequested to cease his endeav-
ors, that the decision not to marry him
was final. And asif in afterthought
Miss Maurice told him she was con-
sldering "another man." Hammer
smith responded as follows:
NY Dear Miss Mauriee-Thank you for
make out the last OF II. am going to
Chicago TO kill the other man. Detor.
minedly. JOHN HAMMERSM1TH.
There Is pause here In the narra-
tive which fancy may all.
Again Miss Maurice addresses her
chum, Helen Wells, and her letter Is
60 characteristic, so "eternally femi-
nine," that 1t is worth reproducing:
MY Dear Heien-weil, am going to
Europe suro enough. but not on a cattle
smith. and am 10 daEed that can
hardly believe II. Mr. H. came to school
ono day looking disgustinEly handsome.
looked tired to death and fright. We
Came next night and John Bartlett APP
peared also. We played cards. I felt
amused. Instead OF spihBter of thirty
two--1 told him that was near forty-I
felt like a gay young thing of sixteen or
thereaboutg. with my two BuitorS. Com
parisons are odiouS, but Mr.. II. showed
TO 80 much better advantage than John.
who was plainly Jealous. that that queor
organ called my heart took q leap In the
New York mans favor. He came tho
uoAL ONculuBt hHu-Heut no bOOOu Hl0 hS
q woman of any age likes TO be wooed.
Ho Is willing to live In a nat and let
me housokeep TO my own heArt,S content
and think i am going to be quite happy.
Just thinki shall have dear little
boy and girl TO take caro- OF inHtead OF
my little dog. Come, on for the bachelor
girl" dinner. Never thought I'D sivo ono.
We sail July 90 With love,
MARY MAURICE.
80 tho wooing of bachelor maid Is
not different from the wooing of any
other sort of maid. When Hammer
smith dropped his semieommercial
propositions and wooed "as woman
Of any age likes to be wooed" the cit
adei capitulated. the practical baehe.
lor girl found she was vulnerable to
the shafts Of Cupid. And John Ham.
mersmith learned this old time lesson:
When a man would win a maid, don't
writer go.--Modern Culture.