Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-02-09
SHOULD WOMAN EVER
PROPOSE TO A Man?
Some Have Done So to Their
Happiness

Should woman ever propose to
man? / can hear an indignant fem
inc chorus, No yet down from the
past comes the echo of Priscillas de-
mure, why don't you speak for your
elf, John?" Isn't that putting 1t
rather plainly?
All through the ages women have
made their selections, and men have
responded. yet We still keep up the
fiction that it is the man who asks and
the woman who answers. Now and
then some discriminating husband ad-
mfts sheepishly, 4 don't know just
how it happened, but I found myself
engaged, married, and now l am very
happy with Jane"
But Jane knows how it happend.
She knows that at the psychological
moment she brought her battery OF
charms to bear on her dallying lover,
and By sheer will power combined with
loveliness she won her point.
A woman does not blurt out, "Will
YOU marry me?" She waits for moon
light and starlight to whisper How
do people live who don't believe in
love-" and the listening man, hypno-
tized by the witchery of the night, and
by her words, takes his cue from her,
and thus she guides him toward the
interrogation which leads to matri-
mSny.
If women would only tell the truth,
We should find that more than one OF
them has taken her courage in her
hands and has shown her bashful low
er the way to win her
Says Nora to Mike: Sure, I'm going
10 have a little home of me own some
day, where I can make things purity,
an cook an clean an have fire al
ways burnin' on the hearth"
The picture pleases Mike; until Nora
drew the outlines he had not thought
OF the comfort of a little home with
Nora to make things purity but now
he asks, naturally, Would ye like a
man in that home?"
And Nora whispers d somewhat
superfuous Yes"
Testing aside, however, there are
many women, and usually these are
the finest, and sweetest, and best, who
have a reserve which will yield 20
nothing less than a mans importunate
plea.
To such women response comes only
when they have heard mans Il love
you" Have you ever heard that plain.
tive lament of the young soul whicr
felt it had betrayed too much?
Il told thee when it was a sin tc
speak
For sin it is when maiden's eye be-
Such love as mine--a love enkindle5
there
Not by the mans prayer, but by God
above
Ere we say, love-"
lie Gallienne has put d girls tende;
shrinking thus:-
Though all the world has heard the
song Of the Nightingale to tho
Rose, only the Nightingale has hearC
the answer of the Rose"
A strong man and a brave one does
not need to be led into mauimony
Though he may quail in the presence
Of the lady Of his heart, he will put his
love to the test. | believe that woman
is happiest who lets the man do thu
wooing. Now and then there is an eX
ceptional case. The girl with a fol-
tune nay have to lay it at the feet o
The proud lover, VINO will not sue TO
fear OF misunderstanding OF his mo
tives. Or when a man is so dansely
madly worshipful that he fears a re
fusal and cannot face it, woman ma.
show that he viii not ask in vain T
those who are thus adored We ma
grant special dispensation.
But most of US must set a seal upol
orr lips, knowing that he who love
as truly will tell us and that all other.
are not worthy of our asking.