The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-19
BuMarnueriteMooers Marshall
\ Ia PASHA

oUrs4, 1870. p TAf S rT, P%,t5 at5 Co.
H 0% S.: Z, you going TO propose ..,.. 10
nave to do 1t. There are only about
six weeks of leap year left. In 1921
your quadrennial altbi will have
expired and Cupid Will expect
every bachelor to do his duty. Are
YOU ready for the question?
Br-r-r-r! II makes you SILVER
worse than the thought OF a coal
shortage, doesn't it? But before your
backbone turns to ice and your knees
TO putty and your teeth to chattering
castanets, learn that kind persons
have had your hard case in mind, that
o set of thoughtful philanthropists
have prepared tirsJ aid for the fused,
with special directions as to what to
DO when suffering from Il case of
latent proposal. It's all down-direc-
lions and diagrams-in High
Society" cleverest and funniest OF
!, recently published books, being a co..
Election OF the drawings of Fish"
s&kAt gifted young Englishwoman
whose work has delighted New York
and London for the last half dozen
years.
When "Fish"-in real life, she Is
Mrs. Walter SoftoH--did these
sketches for Vanity Fair and the
PatriClan, the accompanying precepts
were prepared by Dorothy Parker,
George $. Chappell and Frank Crown
inshleld, three brilliant experienced
and sophisticated individuals. Could
bashful youth hope for better coun-
sellers? In the two pages Of High
SoCiety'-by the way, II is published
by G. p. Putnam's Sons-entitled THE
Strategy and Finesse of Proposing"
there are described, with minutest de
tail, six methods, five of which are
recommended. And Fish" lest there
remain any doubt tells 1t in pictures,
as reproduced to-day in The Evening
World.
First, there Is the Proposal by Let
Ier-but our experts advice is,
DON'T"
Letters of proposal" they point
out, have any number of drawbacks.
For instance: "a They may miscarry
and be delivered to the wrong candi-
date-some lady who leaves you cold.
or (2) the dear girl may accept you
by a somewhat precipitate telegram
before you have had time TO think the
thing over in which case you will
find yourself in the cart (8)' Letters
sound so deucedly silly when Inc az
( torneys get UP to read them in the
court room for the benefit Of the
press. Finally 90, letter never has
the force of a good face-to-face reel
tation"
(which brings us TO the second
method of proposing, the Proposal in
Person. This is advised.
''The pen" we arr warned, us hard
~ TO be compared IN efficacy with the
three great aids to wooinB: the capa-
Cious sofa, the soft shaded lamp and
the smoulderinE fire. SO DISMISS the
page boy and step around to Irene's
yourself"
TerpsichoreAn.
declare the authors, ''of making the
modern debutante capitulate, and that
is to dance her into complete sub
mission Remember, that nowadays
hearts and thrones are oftenest won
by revolutions. Remember, that II is
only in dancing that man inspires
in a woman that close feeling of con
fidence so essential to bliss and telic-
6ty in the married state. So, If a
maiden Is even a little wary Of yom
advances or in any way disposed "a
nght you off, just get some willing
friend to Btrafe the piano for you
then lift the difiident child out of heI
chair, give her position A and launch
out with her upon the whirlpools Of
she dance"
p. No. 4, the Proposal Ia Pasha,
should recommend especially t.
youthful sons of profiteers-who elst
could afford it2
mo RI" II is pointed out in 'Higf
lSociety's" advance leaves from thu
d921, Handbook OF CourtshiD. "accus'
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