Evening star., 1909-04-11

laration that it taken bodily, words and business,
from his last part.
No Rolling Pin for Him
UNDOUBTEDLY the Artistic or Temperamental
Proposal IS the funniest OF them all Its humor
fails because its perpetrator always totally
lacking in humor
Nv Temperamental Proposal occurred on the lake
in Central Park / had known the 1anky blue eyed
artist who brought about for nearly years. and
/ believe the passionate project had been slmnerlng
his soul for at least twenty months the long delay
being due to his desire to have just the right lights
and atmospheric conditions at the fated moment
Il look my best at the PROV of canoe, he told
confidently, threaded our way through the
scented lanes of Central Park day in April. Once
the he assumed his most studied pose, and for
perhaps twenty minutes padded silently in and out
among the other boats every motion effect OF eN
aggerated grace Suddenly he turned as though TO
utter poetic thought born of the sitting twilight;
but as he looked at shadow crossed his face
Would you mind throwing of the boat cush-
ions over feet? Walking shoes are 50 inartistic
glanced at my stout, stubby, commonsense toes
with strong APPROVAL but to preserve the unlties OF
the for him. covered them he had requested.
That's better, he said .approvingly. Now
would YOU mind trailing your hand in the water? 4
woman always looks charming when she does that.
What pity, there are no waterly pads to be found
around here!''
trailed my hands in the water obediently and in
throaty tenor he began to sing the Canadian Boat
Song As the song ended, the slid under little
bridge, and for moment we We're cut OF from our
kind. He turned, and knew the fatal moment was
upon Of course / was still conscientiously
splashing water. l thought he would start by quo
taton from Owen Meredith 1t would have been SO s.,
appropriate Ny love, my chosen, but not mine!,
l almost heard-no, not at all.
L like you better than any girl ever saw, he
said, and want to get married. l am SO tired OF
restaurant cooking!'
There was reality, there was pathos, in the last
sentence And how humanity inconsistent that, after
waiting SO long for the right poetic setting, his pro-
posal should take so grossly material a form
took my hand out of the trailing water. Never,
never would it WELD skillet rolling pin for him Il
can't cook, all said But he took it as meant
he should.
Well he sighed phlosophically, Il sorry;
but of course l know you not the only woman in
the world for There must be at least dozen
Others / could love-
And two months later he found one of them.
The Kind with If"
THE Subiunctive Proposal, as have said, follows
an :" IT," ANY woman of ordinary attractiveness
receives at least three of these: If would
only leave million, how should love to lay it at
your feet! or " | can just see YOU presiding over
magnificent country estate. Such setting would be
worthy of YOU All if it only in my power!"
The determined woman. if she happens to love the
author of the Subjunctive Proposal, says sweetly,
Yes dear that would be lovely; but saw a two
family house to-day that would just suit us. We
could rent the lower part, etc. And there he IS
nailed to the mast.
There are certain venerable traditions that hedge
about mans offer OF his hand in marriage which it
would perhaps be wiser on my part not to disturb.
One of these is contained in the most approved
formula for rejection, namely OF course, Mr.. So and
So appreciate the honor OF your proposal but etc.
WHY should consider being asked in mar
RAG. an honor unless indeed. love prompts her to
take such view of the she cares for and ac-
cepts? Too often such proposal. springing as it
does from source whose mat lnonlal intentions she
had suspected makes her realize the wisdom Of
the ser1nonzihg Laertes, : He comes too near who
comes to be denied; for he has invaded her world
of dreams and stretched out his hand for the
In his own dreams he has beheld her as his wife.
Granted that he offers her his BEST that he jugges
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