The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-02-13

always stopped, as she now recalls.
just short OF popping the question.
The girl, however. was not ready
to marry. as she was the support OF
parents TO whom she was devoted.
So she and the mai fell into a pleas
ant arrangement that she considered
an engagement, He monopolized her
time, and thoughts. and affections.
He camped on her parlor chairs. and
ate her good dinners. and was as
much at home in her house as her
own family almost. and II never oc-
CURED to her that he was not as
anxious TO marry her rs she was 10
marry him.
Finally, after twelve years OF this
sentimental state, fate was kind to
the woman. A small inheritance came
10 her parents so that they were no
longer dependent on her. and she felt
that she could leave them, and go
with q clear conscience To her own
home.
Trembling with eaeerness and the
joyful news she had TO impart, she
rushed TO the man and told him that
their long waiting was over. and that
they could be married al last. And the
man replied that he wasn't a marry
ing man, and had never had the
slightest intentions OF slipping HE
head In the matrimonial moose.
The woman is heartbroken. The
man has been the center OF her life
so long that she cannot tear him
out OF IL, and she asks pitifuIly what
she shall do.
O. course there Is Just one thing
that woman with any self-respect
can do under such circumstances,
and that IS TO take a broom and
sweep such trash out or her house.
There are many contemplate men
IN the world. but the man who IS
welcher IN love is the most ioath-
some OF them all.
He is woree than a thief. He is
worse than a murderer. For 4;
woman Is robbed os her purse she
can earn more money, but II she Is
has been taken which can never be
Yet there are many men who are
selfish enough 20 amuse themselves
by making love 10 women without
counting tho cost 10 their victims
t-act!ve girl they can find, and pro-
ceea 20 blight her Ne with the atten-
tions that are without intention. They
call upon her continually, they are
seen about with her everywhere. they
N!l up her dance programme and mo-
nopolizs her society.
They have 40 Intention whatever
o., marrying. but they keep away the
men wid would marry. and so doom
The girl to cid maid enhood. 7, is
Z
only after these dead beats IN ar
fiction have lifted away 20 some
new flame that the girl wakes up and
realizes how diEhororably she has
been tre1ted.
OF course. iu these days OF The
high cost OF living. there arc many
men who cannot afford TO marry, and
who not only enjoy feminine society.
but are attracted TO some particular
girl whom they would gladly lead TO
the altar II they could. u is . test
or The true no5iIity and Chiyalry oi
such a man 20 consider the gtrrs hap
piness before his OWE pleasure. and
when he cannot AK her 10 marry
him 20 withdraw before she has
learned to love him.
II Is idiouc. In the FIRST place. 10
drive away the men who might pro-
pose for the man who never pro-
poses, and. IN the second place. the
woman who lets any nan. save the
man 70 whom she is actually mar
ried. think he Is the only man 20
her knows littio of how 10 play the
love game and % the masculiue way
% A man with a maid.
For IN love, as IN business. COM
petition Is the life Of trade. and moth
ing enhances a woman's value in =
mans eyes so much as seeing that
other men want her. Many a man is
brought TO tho proposing point By